Custom Cook Shirts and Chef Shirts with Your Logo

Who's going to wear these shirts, the cooks on the back line or the people your guests can see? That one answer narrows our custom cook shirts down fast. Most of the 11 styles here fall into two groups: plain black or white kitchen shirts, mostly with snap fronts, and patterned cotton shirts in gingham and check. Pick the group first, then the size range. Then we embroider your logo.

Custom Cook Shirts for the Line: The Snap-Front Group

Four shirts here are made for kitchen work, and three of them close with gripper snaps (snap fasteners instead of buttons). If you came looking for custom snap front cook shirts, these are the ones. Weights are in oz, meaning ounces of fabric per square yard.

People ask us what makes a cook shirt different from a chef shirt. On this page, mostly the name on the tag. The 5050 Cook Shirt and the 5020 Chef Shirt are both listed as 4.7 oz poplin (a smooth, tight plain-weave fabric) in a 65/35 blend, both with gripper fronts. Same family.

The snag with the 5050: it's the only one actually called a cook shirt, and it only comes in white. Want black on the whole line? Go 5020 or 5035.

Honestly, if a line crew asks us for custom chef shirts, we'd start with the 5020. Black or white, a full gripper snap front, pockets, and sizes from S to 5XL, so your biggest cook isn't left out. Need an XS for someone smaller? The 5035 runs XS to 5XL. The RP904 is the twill pick (twill is a diagonal weave), a little heavier at 5 oz and with pockets too, but it stops at 3XL.

Who Sees Your Cooks? Gingham and Check Shirts for Open Kitchens

An open kitchen, a counter, a food truck window, a café where the cook hands the plate across... that's where the patterned shirts make sense. Six Artisan Collection by Reprime styles here are 3.4 oz 100% cotton yarn-dyed poplin. Yarn-dyed means the threads are colored before weaving, so the check is woven in, not printed on top.

Gingham

The RP220 (long sleeve) and RP221 (short sleeve) are the men's cuts. The RP320 and RP321 are the women's. All four come in Black/White, Light Blue/White, Navy/White and Red/White, XS to 3XL. The two short sleeve ones, RP221 and RP321, are a micro-check, a really small pattern.

Contrast check

The RP250 (men's, S–3XL) and RP350 (women's, XS–2XL), both long sleeve, in Camel/Navy, Red/Navy, Steel/Black and White/Navy.

Men's and women's versions of the same shirt, same colors. That's handy for a mixed crew.

Thread-room tip: on the micro-check shirts, keep thin lettering out of the logo. Fine satin-stitch text (narrow, smooth stitches) sitting on a tiny check gets hard to read from across the counter. Bold letters read better.

Where Does the Logo Go on Embroidered Cook Shirts?

Every shirt here is set up for embroidery or printing on the left chest and right chest. We'd embroider them. A stitched logo on a black snap-front shirt just looks like a uniform. Looks the part.

The usual layout for embroidered cook shirts is the logo on the left chest, about 3 to 4 inches wide, and the cook's name on the right chest. Your logo gets digitized first, which means it's rebuilt as a stitch file the machine follows, and we keep that file for the next order. The spot still has to clear the snap row, seams and pockets on the exact shirt, so we check that before anything gets stitched. More on how we set it up on our custom embroidery page. And every logo you send goes through our Artwork Acceptance Policy.

The RP021 is the odd one in this category. It's a unisex 5.5 oz 60/40 cotton/recycled polyester twill work shirt in Stay Black, Stay Khaki and Stay Navy, XS–3XL, and it also sits in our work woven shirts. It's the only one here with sleeve and full-back logo spots. The back takes a print or an embroidered patch (a logo stitched separately, then sewn on), not direct embroidery. Useful for a dishwasher, a prep runner or a delivery driver who needs the name readable from behind.

Ordering Custom Kitchen Shirts for the Whole Crew

No minimum. One shirt for the new sous chef is fine, and so is a full staff. Mix styles, sizes and colors in one order: 5020s on the line, gingham at the counter, one logo across all of it.

The mockup (a picture of your logo on the actual shirt) comes back in 2–3 working days. Once you approve it, smaller orders take 7–10 working days to make. Opening a new location or planning a big run? Check the timeline with us first, before the opening day gets printed on anything.

Price comes from the shirt, the stitch count of your logo (how many stitches it takes), how many spots you decorate, names or no names, and how many shirts. Which shirt goes to which station, and how many of each size? Put that on our quote page with the logo file. The number we send back covers the snap-fronts and the gingham in one go.

Building out the rest of the kitchen uniform? Chef coats, chef pants, chef aprons and chef hats can all carry the same logo file. Everything else for kitchens and crews is under workwear.

So, who gets the snaps and who gets the check? Settle that at one staff meeting, and the rest of the order is easy.