The Printer Starts at Seven: Restaurant Kitchen Rush Tee

The ticket printer at the front of the rush. Seven is not when it starts printing, it is when it stops pausing, and the sound of it running without a gap is the most recognizable stress trigger in the trade. People hear it on their days off.

Everyone else pictures a desk. An office copier, a working from home joke, a machine that wakes the house up, a neighbor with a noise complaint. Nobody outside a kitchen imagines a strip of paper that means fourteen minutes of work.

Set on a RESERVATION BOOK ticket, two heavy lines and nothing else. The frame names the thing that fills the printer, which is the part the reader has to supply for themselves.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.