Smart, practical and instantly recognisable, the chef’s white jacket is a key component of a chef’s uniform or ‘whites’. The origins of the chef jacket or tunic are French, though there’s some disagreement as to when chef coats were first worn. Some say the story of the chef jacket starts with Napoleon, who reportedly asked that his chefs wear a jacket so that they looked more like soldiers. Here at Lockhart catering, we quite like this version of events, after all, a day spent in the kitchen can feel a lot like heading into battle. The incarnation of the white chef’s jacket that has become the classics style in the catering industry today is credited to popular French chef Marie Antoine Careme in the middle of the 19th Century. The design is thought to have been brought to the UK when Georges Auguste Escoffier came to London to manage the kitchens of the prestigious Savoy Hotel and Carlton Hotel. - See more at: http://www.lockhartcatering.co.uk/view/content/buyers-guide-chefs-jacket#sthash.w48gDdco.dpuf