Xero Degrees Uniforms: One Palette for Kitchen, Floor, Managers and Winter

Some brands come to us for one garment. Xero Degrees is one of the brands where our photo archive shows a complete wardrobe: chef coats, aprons and caps for the kitchen, shirts and polos for the floor, navy blazers for managers, playful oversized t-shirts, black sweaters for winter and even the table napkins. This client story walks through the Xero Degrees uniforms we made, piece by piece, and what any multi-outlet cafe or quick-service brand can learn from how they fit together.

A note on what follows: we are describing what our delivery photographs show. The pieces, the colours and the details are on the page; the design reasoning is our reading of them, offered as lessons for your own brand. You can see every photograph on our Xero Degrees client page.

The Xero Degrees palette: black, white and a maroon-to-red accent

Lay all the Xero Degrees pieces out together and the system is obvious. The working base is black (aprons, trousers, sweaters) and white (chef coats). The brand accent is maroon on some pieces and a brighter red on others. Navy appears on the manager blazers and on one set of shirts. And a couple of brighter colours, teal and a strong red, appear only on the casual polo and t-shirt layer.

This is a textbook example of what our restaurant uniform colours guide recommends: one neutral base, one brand accent, a distinct look for authority, and room for a fun colour where it does no harm.

Xero Degrees uniforms in the kitchen: white coats with the brand in the trim

The Xero Degrees chef coats are white, which keeps the classic kitchen look, but they are never plain. One version has a maroon mandarin collar and a thin maroon piping line running down the wrap front, with the round Xero badge embroidered on the chest pocket. Another uses a brighter red for the collar, the cuffs and the piping, with the red Xero Degrees mark. In both, the colour lives in the trims, so the body of the coat stays a clean, classic white. (One practical note: coloured trims mean no chlorine bleach, so wash these with an oxygen-based whitener instead.)

The coats are paired with black bib aprons. One apron has a maroon band across the hem, echoing the coat's collar; another carries a multi-colour embroidered logo. A complete kitchen set in our photographs includes the white coat, a black apron, black trousers and a soft maroon chef cap, so a cook is branded from head to knee in four pieces.

The lesson for your kitchen: if you want white coats but also want them to look like yours, put your brand colour in the collar, cuffs and piping and match it to a band on the apron. It photographs well in an open kitchen and hides nothing you need to see for hygiene. Our chef coat fabric guide covers which blends take repeated hot washing, and the chef coat gallery shows more trim ideas.

Service and counter: aprons, shirts and polos

Front-of-house pieces in the archive fall into three groups.

• Black waist aprons with a red band. Short, pocketed waist aprons with a red strip across the top of the pocket and the red Xero Degrees logo. Quick to tie, easy to wash, and the red band lines up with the red-trimmed chef coat.
• Collared shirts in maroon and navy. Maroon shirts carry the round Xero logo in white embroidery; navy shirts carry the red and orange mark. Both are simple, well-cut work shirts that suit a counter or a table-service floor.
• Teal polos with a wings print. The most playful service piece: a teal pique polo with a large pair of white wings printed across the back around the round logo, and a small logo on the sleeve.

Having both shirts and polos gives a brand flexibility: collared shirts for a dine-in room or a senior server, polos for a busy counter or a younger team. If you are choosing between the two, our steward and server uniform guide and the guide to polo vs shirt uniforms weigh fabric, comfort and cost.

Managers: a navy blazer that sets them apart

The Xero Degrees manager uniform in our photographs is a navy two-button blazer with notch lapels, a patterned lining and the round Xero badge embroidered on a patch over the breast pocket. It is the only tailored jacket in the wardrobe, and on a floor full of black, white and maroon a navy blazer makes a manager identifiable at a glance.

A blazer is the most formal choice for a manager. It works best in air-conditioned rooms and for brands that want a slightly premium feel at the door. Where the room runs warm, a waistcoat in the same navy does a similar job with less heat. Our manager uniform guide compares the two, and the manager uniform gallery shows both.

The fun layer: oversized tees, polos and a winter sweater

The most memorable Xero Degrees piece in our archive is the red oversized t-shirt. The back carries a full comic strip of cartoon food characters in speech bubbles, the front has a bold slogan, and the sleeve carries the brand name. It is a staff t-shirt that works equally well as merchandise, and it tells a guest something about the brand's personality before they read the menu.

This is the kind of piece we describe in our oversized t-shirt uniforms guide: relaxed fit, heavy print on the back where it is visible across a room, small branding elsewhere. It suits cafes and quick-service formats with young teams, event days and launch weeks.

For winter, the brand has black V-neck sweaters with the round logo embroidered in white on the chest. A V-neck lets a collared shirt sit neatly underneath, and black matches the aprons and trousers, so the winter layer does not break the palette. Our restaurant winterwear guide and our guide to sweaters and cardigans for restaurant staff go into knit weights and when to order.

Xero Courtyard: the same system with a yellow accent

Our archive also holds pieces for Xero Courtyard, and they are a useful study in giving a related concept its own look. The chef set is a white coat with yellow piping down the front and a yellow neckerchief, paired with a black bib apron with a yellow band at the hem. The housekeeping set is a black tunic with a mustard mandarin collar, mustard placket trim and a mustard pocket bar, worn with black elastic-waist trousers. The Xero Courtyard logo is embroidered in orange and white.

Compare that with Xero Degrees and the family resemblance is clear: white coats with coloured trims, black aprons with a coloured hem band, black as the working base. Only the accent colour changes. See all of it on the Xero Courtyard client page.

The lesson for multi-brand groups: share the pattern, the fabric and the construction between brands, and change only the trim colour and logo. Sampling is faster, reorders are simpler, and each brand still has its own identity. Our guide to multi-outlet uniform programmes covers this in more detail.

Table linen: the brand on the table

Not everything we made for Xero Degrees is worn. Our photographs include red and white gingham table napkins with the Xero Degrees logo embroidered in red and orange in one corner. Gingham is informal and cheerful, and the red picks up the same accent used on the chef coats and waist aprons, so the table and the team speak the same colour. Our table napkin guide covers fabrics and sizes.

Two logos, one lesson: plan your changeovers

Look closely at the photographs and you will see two versions of the Xero mark: a round black badge with "xero" in white, and a red mark with an orange dot and "xero degrees" in a rounded typeface. Both appear on real, delivered uniforms.

That is normal. Brands evolve, and uniforms outlive logos. What matters is how the transition is handled:

Our guide to rebranding and uniform refresh covers this properly, and the uniform reorder guide explains how to keep spares consistent while a change is under way.

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