Front of House Looks Sharp. Back of House Survives the Wash.
PRP Apparel is a hospitality uniform manufacturer building front-desk and concierge shirts, F&B server aprons, housekeeping tunics, and kitchen workwear for hotels, restaurants, and hospitality groups running one brand color across more than one property. Front of house gets pressed and inspected piece by piece before it ships; back of house gets built for a daily industrial laundry cycle instead. Most hospitality orders need both, branded the same way, ordered together.
MOQ
50 Pieces Per Style
not 50 total across an order
SAMPLE LEAD TIME
12–15 Days
per round, 1–3 rounds typical
BULK LEAD TIME
35–45 Days
from approved sample to shipped order
SAMPLE COST
$80–$250
per set, by construction complexity
One Uniform Program, Multiple Properties, One Color
A single-location restaurant can get away with reordering “close enough” navy. A hotel group opening a fourth property on a staggered timeline cannot — the front desk shirt in property four has to match the front desk shirt in property one, ordered eighteen months earlier by a manager who has since moved on. That is a supply chain problem before it is a design problem: the fabric has to be dyed against a saved reference every time, not re-matched by eye from a swatch card that has faded in a drawer.
What Actually Holds a Reorder to the Same Shade a Year Later
Hospitality uniforms get worn daily and laundered on a commercial schedule most retail apparel never sees — front-of-house pieces still have to look presentable on shift five days a week, and back-of-house pieces go through hotter, harsher hospitality laundry cycles. A dye lot that matches on delivery day can visibly shift by the second wash cycle if it was not tested for it, and a reorder placed a year after the first one is only as safe as the reference record behind it. The steps below are what keeps a reorder honest.
Every size in a property’s order is cut from the same saved digital pattern file rather than re-drawn by hand for each reorder — the shoulder seam on this year’s shirts lands exactly where it did on last year’s.
Heat-transfer branding and neck tags are cured at a set temperature and time on record for the program, so a logo applied this quarter holds up the same way one applied last quarter did.
Solid-color fabric runs through the dye stage against a saved batch reference, tagged and tracked by lot, before it reaches the cutting floor — the same target whether it is the opening order or the fourth reorder.
Hospitality Uniform Production Specs
Every number below is our standard production term — the same terms whether the order is a single restaurant’s first run or a hotel group rolling out a fifth property.
| MOQ | 50 pieces per style — a single property’s first order in one uniform piece is a complete order, no requirement to order every role or color to hit the minimum |
| Sample lead time | 12–15 days from order confirmation |
| Sample cost | $80–$250 per sample set, depending on complexity |
| Sample rounds | 1–3 rounds standard before bulk cutting |
| Bulk lead time | 35–45 days from approved sample to shipped order |
| Typical program pieces | Polo and button-front shirts for front-of-house, aprons and tunics for F&B and housekeeping, and kitchen workwear, built on our core woven and knit shirting construction |
| Fabric weight range | Shirting weight consistent with our 140–200 GSM cotton and cotton/poly range for front-of-house shirts and polos; aprons and heavier back-of-house pieces can draw on our 200–280 GSM cut-and-sew weight range for structured pieces |
| Branding methods | Embroidery (standard for logos and staff names), heat-transfer neck tags, woven labels, and screen print — all in-house at the 50-piece minimum, no minimum upsell on branding |
| Certifications | OEKO-TEX Standard 100 fabric certification available on request; ISO 105-C06 (wash) and ISO 105-X12 (rubbing) colorfastness testing on request |
Where This Fits: One of Eight Industries We Build For
Hospitality uniform work is one of eight industries we build for, alongside fashion labels, startup brands, and corporate uniform programs. A single-location business that wants consistent staff branding without a multi-property color record is closer to our corporate uniform page. For how we hold an exact color to a saved reference across repeat orders, read our full lab dip approval process. For how branding is applied at the 50-piece minimum, see our guide to custom labels and packaging.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the minimum order for a hospitality uniform program?
50 pieces per style is the baseline. If your program covers several roles in the same style — front desk, F&B, housekeeping — each role or color is treated as its own production run, so tell us how your property splits before we confirm quantities for a first order. For general guidance on negotiating minimums across multiple styles, see our MOQ negotiation guide.
Can you match our brand color exactly on a reorder placed a year later?
Yes — send a reference garment or a Pantone reference and we dye against that saved target rather than re-matching by eye from a swatch card. Reorders are run against the original approved dye lot record, not restarted from scratch each time.
Do you supply uniforms for a hotel group with more than one property?
Yes. A multi-property program is usually set up as one saved color and spec record with a separate production run per property or per opening date, so a property opening in year two gets the same shade property one got in year one.
How do you keep colors from drifting after repeated hospitality laundering?
ISO 105-C06 wash colorfastness and ISO 105-X12 rubbing fastness testing are available on request before bulk cutting, and solid-dyed fabric is checked against the approved shade at the dye stage rather than only at final inspection.
What branding do you use for logos or staff names?
Embroidery is the standard method for logos and staff names, along with heat-transfer neck tags, woven labels, and screen print — all in-house at the 50-piece minimum, with no minimum upsell on the branding itself.
How long does a first hospitality uniform order take from deposit to delivery?
35–45 days for bulk production once a sample is approved, with sample development itself running 12–15 days per round — worth building into planning around a property opening date.
Ready to Set Up Your Hospitality Uniform Program?
Send your property count, a reference garment, or your current supplier’s spec sheet and we’ll scope a first order — sample cost, lead time, and MOQ per style.