Rowley Lee - How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Chef Business

How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Chef Business

By Carla Rowley and Lee Rowley

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How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Chef Business

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ISBN-13: 978-1-60138-141-5 ISBN-10: 1-60138-141-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rowley, Carla, 1977

How to open & operate a financially successful personal chef business

/ by Carla Rowley and Lee Rowley.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-1-60138-141-5 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 1-60138-141-7 (alk. paper)

1. Food service management. 2. Cooks. 3. Entrepreneurship. I.

Rowley, Lee, 1973- II. Title.

TX911.3.M27R69 2008

647.95068--dc22

2008028007

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Foreword

By Deborah J. DuBost

In todays environment, where families are fast-forwarding through life with busy careers and a plentitude of after-school activities, more and more people are choosing to hire personal or private chefs to fulfill the need for a home cooked meal. While just a decade ago, services like this were typically used by only the wealthy, today, many everyday families are deciding to hire personal chefs to cook nutritional, well-balanced meals. As the temptation to grab dinner from a fast-food restaurant on the way home from work or from picking up kids from soccer practice increases, so does the guilt for not providing your family with a meal that serves their best interests. For these families-on-the-go, the services of a personal chef can be invaluable and can provide a tasty, but also healthy, alternative to fast-food or prepackaged, frozen meals.

With the need for these services increasing, deciding to open a personal or private chef business can not only be a rewarding personal experience, but a smart business investment as well. Becoming a personal or private chef allows you to take part in an activity that you enjoy cooking and also to escape the typical restaurant environment that most chefs are accustom to. Opening your own business allows you the freedom to express your own creativity and to show off your expertise with a specific style of cooking. As an owner, you can operate the business to align with your own personal and creative vision.

Not only does becoming a personal or private chef give you personal freedom, but it may also give you the financial freedom that you always imagined for yourself and was never available as a chef in a restaurant. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, providing professional personal chef services is one of the fastest growing segments of the food service business. Personal chefs can expect to make between $100 and $400 a day.