What does it mean for a chef to wear a black tie?

The chef wears a towel instead of a tie.

Its color varies with different grades.

Generally, chefs wear red; The supervisor wears black; Ordinary employees wear white. Because of the different management modes, the colors of each hotel are different!

Now some hotels use colors to distinguish grades and departments, and each hotel is different. Take Shangri-La Hotel as an example. The highest grade of their triangular scarf is white, and the apprentice brother is of different colors (to distinguish departments). At present, the top chef of Holiday Inn is black, the department chef is white, and the other employees are colored. The function of the triangle towel is to cover the chef's neck and avoid showing dirty things to the guests. There is also an anecdote about the triangular scarf, which was told to me by a foreigner. It is said that when a chef wants to sneeze, he can block it with a triangular towel to avoid embarrassment.