Basics 1: Uniform and equipment

This is the first official post of the how to waiter/ waitress 

blog so welcome and thank you for your 

support. I hope that you will find this blog useful. To give 

advice on your way as a professional 

waiter I will use a professional standard for every post on 

this blog.

So for the first blog I thought of starting at the right beginning

What to wear and want equipment 

do you need.

As I said that this blog would be on a professional standard 

so although I advice black and white 

with bow tie a lot of restaurants and cafes let's their staff 

wear casual or or certain uniform.

As a waiter you would dress professionally with a white 

collar shirt, neat black trousers,bow tie or 

tie and apron(preferably black).

Where I did my course in waitering we had five pieces of 

equipment that we had to have with us all

the time and personally I would say that with these 5 pieces 

you can do almost everything. 

So I would as a waiter the basic equipment you need is

1) Pen

2) Notepad

3) Bottle opener

4) Handkerchief

5) Lighter

All if these would be a personal choice of what you 

have or what you may need where you are 

working but from what I have experienced that is 

what you need to start off.