What is a personal chef?
A personal chef comes to your home on a regularly scheduled basis (usually biweekly or monthly), prepares meals for you and your family using fresh ingredients, packages the meals for refrigerator or freezer, and provides you with detailed heating instructions so that you may enjoy the meals in the comfort of your home when you choose.
A personal chef is a culinary professional who designs and delivers personalized culinary services for clients’ in their homes’ on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. Unlike a ‘private’ chef, who provides culinary services to one client on a full-time basis, a ‘personal’ chef has multiple clients. Often, the private chef also is a live-in employee; where as the personal chef is an independent small business owner. Unlike a ‘caterer,’ who prepares food in a commercial kitchen and then delivers it to a client’s home or business, a personal chef prepares all of the food in the client’s residential kitchen. A personal chef provides a customized selection of several meals, which are packaged and stored for the client to enjoy as each meal fits into their schedule and lifestyle. A personal chef usually schedules one client per day. Personal chefs meet the needs of clientele whose schedule limits meal planning and preparation to less than 2 hours per day, and who have a desire to integrate
Unlike a private chef who is usually employed full-time with one household, a Personal Chef has several clients who regularly schedule the Chef’s services on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis. A Personal Chef provides a customized selection of several meals, which are packaged and stored for the client to enjoy as each meal fits into their schedule and lifestyle. A Personal Chef usually schedules one client per day. Personal Chefs meet the needs of clientele whose schedule limits meal planning and preparation to less than 2 hours per day, and who have a desire to integrate high-quality, healthy meals into the everyday life of their home.
