Kizen Lab makes uniforms for butcher shops and gourmet food retailers in Bandung, Indonesia, from 500 pieces per style on full-service FOB terms. Counter team shirts, the house apron in the shop’s own colours, deli and specialty counter tiers, front of house lines and multi-store sets, made to the shop’s own design with the logo, colours and labels applied in production. Sampling takes 1 to 2 weeks and bulk delivery 6 to 12 weeks, shipped from Bandung with export documentation handled. The factory is a woven specialist producing since 2000 with 200,000 pieces of monthly capacity, and it cuts every programme on Lectra systems so store number ten dresses exactly like the shop that started the brand.
The counter is theatre, and the apron is the costume
Butchery is one of the few kinds of retail where customers stand and watch the work. The counter sells trust as much as meat, and the wardrobe carries that: the classic butcher apron, cut long and striped or plain, has dressed the trade for a century, and the new wave of gourmet butchers and food stores has kept the apron while rebuilding everything around it. The modern version is a branded set: a woven shirt that survives a hot counter shift, the house apron in the brand’s colours over the top, and a cut that photographs well, because gourmet retail lives on shop windows and social feeds. When the brand grows to several stores, the set has to reproduce exactly: same stripe, same shade, same embroidery, store after store. That reproduction is the part most suppliers get wrong and the part a factory with patterns on file gets right.
Counter and service staff
Woven shirts built for hot counters and constant washing, with the house apron over the top: pinstripe or bib style, in the shop’s colours, logo applied in production.
Head butcher and store managers
A step up in weight and cut for the people who run the room, with the heavier house apron that marks the senior pair of hands on the floor.
Deli and specialty counter teams
Where a store runs cheese, charcuterie or deli counters beside the meat room, coded tiers in the same palette tell customers which counter does what at a glance.
Front of house and register teams
Shirts and blouses for the desks and registers, in the same family as the counter lines so the whole shop reads as one brand.
Office and wholesale accounts teams
Office lines for the teams behind the shops, and branded pieces for the wholesale reps who call on the restaurants and cafes the shop supplies.
Multi-store and franchise sets
One specification across every store: colours held at fabric level, patterns on file, and each new store’s opening intake pulls a matching re-order instead of a fresh sourcing hunt.
Built for the wash cycle as much as the shop floor
Food retail wardrobes live in commercial laundering, so the fabric choices lean to durable woven blends that hold colour through hot washes, and the house apron is cut from heavier twill for the same reason. Colour is controlled at the fabric level so the brand shade survives both the wash and the years. Branding is applied inside the production line: embroidery for logos and names, woven labels to the shop’s standard, colour blocking where the design calls for it. Patterns are digitised on Lectra systems and stored on file, so a top up before the festive season matches the intake that opened the store.
Food-safety garments stay on the shop’s specification
Cutting-floor and preparation garments carry requirements each shop or group holds in its own written specification, and those stay exactly there: where the shop wants those pieces made alongside the front-of-house lines, Kizen Lab builds strictly to the specification provided, with no claims of ours attached, and laundering and compliance stay with the shop’s own programme. What the two streams share is the palette and the label standard, so the whole shop reads as one brand, with each stream quoted and held separately. This page is about the wardrobe the customer sees: counters, aprons, registers and the teams behind them.
How ordering works
Send the shop’s colours, a design reference or a photo of the current aprons and shirts, and the headcount with size breakdowns per store. We quote per style on full-service FOB terms, put fabric options on the table, and courier samples within 1 to 2 weeks. Trial them through real trading weeks before approving bulk, then production runs 6 to 12 weeks depending on fabric and ships from Bandung with export documentation handled. Groups developing a signature fabric should plan 1,500 pieces to open the development run. Multi-store brands order a launch intake plus a buffer: patterns on file turn every new store’s opening into a matching re-order.
Butcher and gourmet retail uniform FAQs
What is the minimum order?
500 pieces per style. Most shops run several styles across counter, manager, deli and register tiers, and multi-store groups clear it comfortably across their sites.
Can you make the classic butcher apron in our colours?
Yes. Pinstripe, bib and full-length apron styles are made to the shop’s design, in heavier twill, with the logo and label standard applied in production. Aprons are quoted as their own styles.
Do you make the cutting-floor and preparation garments?
Those carry requirements in the shop’s own written specification. Where they are wanted alongside the front-of-house lines, we build strictly to the spec held, with no claims of ours attached.
We run several stores. Can one programme dress them all?
Yes, and that is the point. One specification, colours held at fabric level, and every new store opening pulls from patterns on file, so the newest shop matches the first.
Do you ship internationally?
Yes. The factory exports woven programmes worldwide, including for a Hawaii-based procurement house, and handles export documentation from Bandung.
We need 1,000 pieces per style. Is there a step up?
Yes. Our sister brand World KNK runs programme-tier orders from 1,000 pieces per style at worldknk.com, in the same factory group.
Ask for a quote
Send the shop’s colours or a photo of the current aprons and shirts, the roles to dress and your headcount per store. We will come back with fabric options, a per style price on full-service FOB terms and a sampling plan.
Ask for a Quote
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Also see: restaurant & cafe uniforms and retail staff uniforms.