Planning notes · July 2026
Building a garment menu that keeps the line short
The garment menu is secretly a queue-management tool. Every extra choice adds seconds of dithering per guest, and seconds multiplied by three hundred guests become the line your event gets remembered for.
Three garments, two colorways, one card
Our fastest-moving bars offer exactly three garments in two colorways each. Six physical options fit on one staged tabletop, one menu card, and one glance. The proven trio changes by season: cap / tote / hoodie for corporate rooms, cap / tote / robe for social and hotel events, cap / beanie / crewneck for winter. When a client insists on a wider spread, we split it across the event clock instead — caps only during the rush hour, full menu when traffic thins.
Pay for the blank people can feel
Guests never see the invoice, but they feel the fabric instantly. The blanks that earn their premium: Richardson 112 for structured trucker profiles, unstructured cotton dad caps for the fashion-forward, Gildan 18500 for heavyweight fleece that hides hoop marks and reads expensive, Bella+Canvas 3001 when a tee belongs on the menu, and 10-oz canvas totes that hold their shape under a monogram. Sizing note for sweats: order 60% L/XL, skew up not down — an oversized hoodie gets worn, a tight one gets returned to the pile.
Design the decision, not just the garment
The menu card guests hold should show: the three garments photographed flat, the monogram styles named (guests pick “Club Script” faster than they describe a font), the thread palette as printed swatches, and placement zones as simple diagrams. That card cuts per-guest decision time roughly in half compared with an open-ended “what would you like?” — and it is why our stations quote confident throughput numbers on the throughput page.
One more quiet trick: stage a few finished pieces on the rack before doors. Guests copy what they can see, decisions accelerate, and the first hour’s output becomes the display. Menu decisions are locked the week before via test-stitch photos, so event day holds zero surprises. Start your menu from what stitches well live, then send the brief.