Personal Chef

CHEFIN; American Samoa; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Choose your hours

Competitive pay

Creative freedom

Facilities & equipment

Customer matching

Insurance protection

Job summary

CHEFIN is seeking a full-time private household chef to cook breakfast, lunch and dinner for a client group of three, six days a week. You will design menus, manage kitchen operations and deliver a high-end dining experience in clients’ homes.

Join CHEFIN to enjoy flexible booking, guaranteed payment, and support with marketing and client acquisition while maintaining creative freedom and quality standards in every service.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience as a chef.
• Ability to design menus and tailor them to dietary requirements.
• Kitchen management capability and staff delegation.
• Clean and organised workspace.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Self-directed with ability to plan ingredients and prep lists.
• Punctual delivery and service.

Responsibilities

• Prepare meals for client bookings in private homes.
• Design menus to meet dietary requirements and client preferences.
• Shop, prep, cook, serve and clean for each booking.
• Communicate with clients via CHEFIN dashboard and maintain professionalism.

Skills

Sociable personality

Independent worker

Time management

Passion for food

Menu design

Self-directed

Communication skills

Job description

FULL TIME Chef needed for a private household - cooking for 3 breakfast, lunch & dinner 6 days per week.

Why you’ll love working with CHEFIN

You’re a chef, and what you love most is creating incredible food and seeing the smiles on people’s faces while they eat it. But in today’s crowded and complex market, it isn’t easy to cut through and reach to the real foodies who appreciate your passion and craftsmanship techniques. We take the cost, time, and headache out of finding clients and put you straight in the hands of our industry experts, who’ll do it all for you. You don’t have to worry about marketing, customer service, and promotion; that’s what we do best.

What you get from joining CHEFIN

• Choose your hours – You’re free to accept or reject bookings at any time, so you can work when you want.
• Competitive pay – Our chefs’ earnings are 2x higher than hourly pay on average, plus you’ll be guaranteed payment – even if a client cancels last minute,
• Creative freedom – You’re free to be you. Design the menu you want, cook the food you love, and provide guests with your own personalised experience.
• Everything you need to be a chef – You’ll have access to all of our facilities, including advanced equipment, a commercial kitchen, transportation, and staffing.
• We bring customers to you – Be free from the worry of finding your next clients. We market you and your work and match you with suitable customers,
• Insurance protection – Every chef working as part of CHEFIN’s platform can access full public liability insurance and regulatory compliance with the American Food Authorities.

Have the power to choose your path! How CHEFIN works:

• Clients make a booking on CHEFIN’s platform. They pay in full, and the money is placed in a trust account.
• The CHEFIN backend system evaluates the client’s requirements and matches them to your profile. If there’s a match, you receive a booking request via text & email,
• You get to decide whether to accept the job or not. The more jobs you accept, the more jobs you get. It’s as simple as that,
• Booking is allocated to your Chef Dashboard. Here, you can access all the details, fill in the menu design wizard, and communicate with the client.
• The client will approve your menu, and you’re ready to shop, prep, cook, serve, and clean.
• When it’s all over, the client will submit a review, and you will upload all booking expenses. You get paid from the trust account, a safe and secure transaction for all involved.

Join CHEFIN and share your love of food. Create delicious dishes & express yourself!

Who we’re looking out for…

• Top chefs who want more work. The ideal candidates for our platform are chefs working in top restaurants who are interested in additional work at competitive rates, with less stress than a busy commercial kitchen and a lot more praise!
• Chefs with extensive experience. Suitable chefs will have excellent culinary skills and experience working in high-end restaurants, cooking a variety of a la carte, fine dining quality cuisine with first-class presentation skills.
• Sociable personalities. We’re looking for reliable, professional, and well-presented individuals with strong interpersonal skills and friendly personalities. You’ll be attending client bookings in their homes, so you need to be sociable and have great communication skills.
• Independent workers. Responsibilities will include managing bookings to meet food quality goals, contributing to menu design, and working within each booking’s cost goals.
• What does it take to be a private chef with CHEFIN?
• We provide a high-quality service to our clients, and we ask that you meet these requirements before applying to join our community:

Menu design: you can independently design your own menus & tailor them to meet dietary requirements,

Kitchen management. You can run a kitchen on your own & delegate work to staff if needed,

Clean & organised. We take pride in a clean, organised workspace and ask that you do too,

10+ yrs experience. We ask that you have a minimum of 10 years experience as a chef,

Self-directed. You have the ability to plan ingredients, submit orders, and prep lists,

Time management. Prompt delivery and service is essential,

Passion for food. You need to have a genuine passion and love for food & everything to do with cooking,

Social. Be prepared to talk to guests, answer questions, and provide an engaging experience.

Commitment to quality: As a private chef, you’re expected to demonstrate a great commitment to quality. This encompasses everything from choosing the best quality products and sourcing the finest ingredients out there, to the presentation of your dishes and the way you use ingredients.

Mastery of flavour profiles & cooking techniques: You must be prepared to improvise and adjust your cooking style depending on the available resources you have for each event. Make the most of what you are given!

Unique personalities: To truly succeed as a private chef, you must stand out from the crowd and present your unique individual personality to the world. Every dinner you create is an exclusive experience for guests, and you are part of the show. You need to shine in your communication as well as your appearance, and every plate you serve should stand out and shout out to the world – “This is me!”

Sensational food: A truly special dish is one you never want to end. Our private chefs are committed to presenting each dish with a full harmony of flavours, structuring the menu to make guests want more and more. It’s all about creating something truly joyful to eat, every time.

Consistency: When you embody your private chef persona, people start to crave that same experience over and over. They want consistency, and you need to be able to demonstrate the same dedication and quality of cooking time and time again. To truly succeed as a private chef, your individual dishes and all your services should share harmonious qualities.

Don’t be afraid to show your creativity: Branch out, embrace yourself as an individual and follow your passion as a chef. Some of the best private chefs in our community work directly with growers, farmers, and fishermen. Some even forage in hedgerows and woodlands, grow their own plants and rear animals. Others are avid supporters of regenerative methods such as no-dig vegetable gardens and successional cover crop growing.

We don’t want to tell you who to be – we simply want to empower you to embrace who you are and show it to the world.

Joining CHEFIN is super easy: we can’t wait to meet you – signing up to our community is simple and fast:

Fill in the chef onboarding form,

Attend a Chef Audition (trial shift).

Learn about CHEFIN’s dining experiences,

We’ll take professional photos and create a 30-sec profile video featuring you and your food,

Receive onboarding manual, feedback from the audition diners, and a form to evaluate your own performance,

When accepted, you can start receiving bookings and cook amazing meals inside homes, offices, and all kinds of venues,

Life as a chef will never be the same again!

Embrace your creativity and take back your power as a chef.