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Build a private-chef career with more than cooking skills.

Private-chef work is personal, professional, and very different from restaurant service.

How To Be A Private Chef helps working culinary professionals learn what happens beyond the menu: how to work inside a client’s home, communicate with households, set boundaries, price your services, manage expectations, and build systems that support long-term work.

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Private-chef work is not just cooking in a different kitchen.

You are entering someone’s home, schedule, preferences, routines, family dynamics, and personal space. The food matters, but so does how you communicate, plan, protect your time, handle requests, and run the business behind the scenes.

This course is designed to help culinary professionals make that shift with clarity.

For culinary professionals who are ready to explore private-chef work

This course is for chefs, cooks, caterers, culinary graduates, and food professionals who already know how to cook and want to understand how private-chef work actually functions.

This is not a cooking technique course. It is a course about the professional side of becoming a private chef.

It is a good fit if you want to:

  • Move from restaurant, catering, or freelance work into private homes
  • Understand what clients expect before you step into the kitchen
  • Learn how to price, propose, and protect your services
  • Communicate clearly with households, assistants, families, and vendors
  • Create systems that make recurring work smoother
  • Build a sustainable career without guessing your way through it
  • Figure out whether private-chef work is the right direction early in your career

What you’ll get out of this course

This course gives you the practical tools, systems, and professional judgment to move into private-chef work with more clarity and confidence.

  • Understand what private-chef work really looks like day to day
  • Handle client consultations, household preferences, and intake conversations with more confidence
  • Plan menus, shopping, prep, service, and clean-up with clearer expectations
  • Navigate the etiquette and professionalism required inside private homes
  • Communicate well with clients, families, household staff, and assistants
  • Set stronger boundaries around time, scope, availability, and special requests
  • Price your services, create proposals, send invoices, and use contracts more confidently
  • Build systems for scheduling, notes, preferences, and recurring service
  • Recognize good-fit clients and avoid preventable issues
  • Build trust through confidentiality, discretion, and professionalism

The goal is to help you walk into private-chef work prepared, not surprised.

The best private-chef relationships are built on trust.

Clients are not only hiring someone to make beautiful food. They are trusting someone with their home, their family, their routines, their health needs, and their time.

A different kind of professionalism

When you understand the expectations, language, boundaries, and systems of private-chef work, you can serve clients more confidently and build a career that feels clear, respectful, and sustainable.

Taught by Veronica Eicken

Veronica Eicken is a Sonoma County private chef and culinary educator with real-world experience serving clients in private homes.

Her work brings together food, hospitality, communication, and the practical systems required to support high-trust client relationships.

How To Be A Private Chef is built from the parts of the job that are rarely taught in culinary school: household etiquette, client management, pricing, boundaries, contracts, and the day-to-day realities of working closely with private clients.

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Learn how private-chef work really works

If you are ready to move beyond the kitchen skills you already have and learn the professional skills this career requires, How To Be A Private Chef was created for you.