A hotelier who has just hired a new cook would have to get him a

chef clothing

 and there are two ways to go about it. Uniform for kitchen staff includes a jacket, and that is usual for pretty much every hotel kitchen. Many senior chefs often have their own chef jackets, which they can bring along when they are employed (just as many doctors tend to have their own doctors' coats). It is a different case with the not so senior kitchen staff. You, as the hotelier, would have to supply them with chef jackets that are, for all intents and purposes, their uniform. It becomes necessary to have the cooks wear the chef jackets so as to comply with public health standards/rules. That is where we tend to have a requirement that all kitchen staff members who are actually involved in food production should wear chef jackets (or equivalent pieces of clothing). There are business implications too, and having cooks wearing chef jackets does have the effect of making an establishment look classy.

If you have a new cook and you are looking for a chef jacket for him, your first option would be to approach a tailor to make one for the cook. It is not rare to see tailors and hotel managements (especially the larger ones) entering into agreements that will have the former providing all the uniforms of the kitchen staff, and that includes chef jackets. This method will have the particular advantage of having chef jackets that are a perfect fit to the measurements of the wearer. The waiting period, however, would be relatively long. The cook would have to wait a while before they would be able to wear their uniform to work. A cook would be immediately hired. However, if the tailor has yet to make the chef jacket, the cook would still have to wait for a period of time before he can fully get his chef jacket and get to work.

A newly hired cook could only be handed over with a ready-made chef jacket. This can either be done online, or in a local store dealing with these types of clothing items. Unlike making an agreement with a tailor, you wouldn't be subjected to any sort of waiting period in this case. This is important, because in many cases, cooks have to be employed on an urgent basis and having them wait for chef jackets to be custom made for them can be costly. As compared to the ready-made chef jackets, the custom-made jackets are decidedly more expensive.

Basically, those are the two ways available to you to get a chef jacket for a cook you've only just hired. As we have seen, each approach has its own upside and downside. The nature of the employment of the cook would also have a bearing on how you should go about procuring a chef jacket for him. For instance, in cases where cooks are employed on an urgent basis, it is often necessary to get ready made chef jackets for them. You will be able to cut down on the waiting time that custom-made jackets have.