What Is a Personal Chef, and What Does He or She Do?
A personal chef consults with you about your dietary needs and food interests, and then comes to your home and prepares meals that are customized to your personal tastes. A personal chef does all the grocery shopping and cooking. These meals are packaged in containers, labeled with reheating instructions, and stored in your refrigerator and freezer for you to eat at your leisure. You enjoy home-cooked meals without worrying about what to serve for dinner.
A personal chef may also prepare your food in a licensed commercial kitchen and deliver it to your home or place of business
Why Hire a member of Puget Sound Personal Chefs?
All members of Puget Sound Personal Chefs work carefully to observe local and national health and safety laws. Our members hold food handlers permits and liability insurance; working as fully registered small businesses, they work hard at supporting the local economy. Some members have elected to work out of a commercial kitchen, allowing them the ability to provide meal delivery services and off-site catering. Some members have elected to work out of a client's home, allowing them to provide a highly customized and completely personalized service. Some members offer online menus that allow you to order your food for delivery and some work with you to customize the food each and every time.
Who Would Use a Personal Chef?
People with a lifestyle that does not allow them to plan, shop for, and prepare meals they would love to eat. Personal chef clients are single professionals, busy parents, senior citizens and active couples. They want to enjoy food that is prepared just for them, without the hassle of doing it themselves.
Is This Service Affordable?
Consider what you are spending on take-out food, restaurants, convenience food, and preservative-filled frozen meals. Then ask yourself if you would like to eat healthful, delicious meals that are prepared just the way you like them. Personal chefs from the Puget Sound Personal Chef's group will be able to put together a service plan and price structure that will work for you and your family.
What Other Services Do Personal Chefs Provide?
Many personal chefs offer other services, such as cooking classes and catering large or small events including dinner parties, weddings and other social occasions. Many personal chefs in the Puget Sound area will cook for your next dinner party or for a family member who just got out of the hospital, or for expectant mothers or those with new babies.
Gift certificates are available for many occasions. Chefs in the Puget Sound Personal Chef's group are active in the nonprofit community, donating many gift certificates for charity auctions.