Recycled Waist

It's been a great start to 2018 for Oliver Harvey. We are particularly proud of our revistalised Waist Apron range, now with a split centre pocket. Find out why we changed our original range and other imporant news here:

If you have been following our recent social media activity you may be aware that we have released our updated and regalvanised Waist Apron range. It is standard e-commerce practice to announce a new range of products to show our customers and audience, our Oliver Harvey Community, that they are available in the hope that they want to buy some. Of course, we would absolutely love for you to be clambering for our new aprons but at Oliver Harvey we have made it our practice to incorporate our community into the story of why we decided to change the old range and develop this new, more dynamic one. Combined with this, we have made a few other changes to our website and have received a special, European accreditation so please see this article as an update from us to you.

When we produced our original Waist Apron range way back in 2010 we knew that we had one of the highest quality and best value for money chef products on the market. Hence why for 6 years they were a resounding success and helped build the foundations for Oliver Harvey to become what it is today. However, over time our chefs and customers have given us feedback and through our annual Customer Surveys we have learned there was something missing from our original Waist Apron range.

That missing feature was a pocket. Whilst we categorised this as a chef apron the pocket was deemed to be a hindrance, not a help. However, we realised that this particular range was selling well with our Front of House staff so a split centre pocket for notepads, pens, phones and possibly even tablets would be really beneficial. Combined with this several of our chefs outlined that they would like a pocket for tongs and other utensils. In addition to this amendment we also have completed the range adding in an Olive and Butchers variant.

We are really proud of our revitalised range of waist aprons. We have altered the design, added the new centre pocket and the two new colours and we are hopeful our Oliver Harvey Community will fall in love with them all over again. But this isn’t the only news we have to share with you.

At Oliver Harvey we categorise our chefwear and aprons in ranges, but we thought the navigation for our customers to see the range wasn’t as streamlined or as interesting as it could be. That’s why we decided to include fabric swatches in our product pages:

The above is taken from our new waist apron range. All of the colours can now be seen on each individual waist apron page. We are confident that this will not only help our community use our website but in our view we think they look great too! All of the ranges which have colour variations now include a unique fabric swatch, from chef hats to t-shirts and from aprons to blouses.

Our final piece of news is that we have successfully been awarded the ISO 9001:2015 certificate. I’m sure that means absolutely nothing to the majority of you but in essence the ISO certificate ‘is internationally recognised as the world’s leading quality management standard’. This demonstrates that our quality management system for every single Oliver Harvey product meets the highest standard. For our customers, this means that you know when you buy from us you are getting the best quality! We are absolutely delighted by this accreditation and want to thank all of our staff who put in the hard work to ensure we got it.

It has been a fantastic start to 2018 for Oliver Harvey with all of the above, our impending factory expansion moving closer every day and the response to our Customer Survey increasing by over 30% on last year’s, the future really does look bright. Make sure you give us your views on our new aprons and fabric swatches and a huge thank you for being with us on this exciting journey.