Personal Chef Jobs in California
Plan, prepare, and store several weeks’ worth of food in residential homes. Personal chefs are hired to assemble, package, and preserve approximately one to two weeks’ worth of meals. It is also common for them to devise entire menus and perform the grocery shopping for their clients. Because they serve several clients, they must have strong organizational skills to ensure that they meet all deadlines and design varied menus for each.
Personal chefs must also be capable of creating meals to meet many different needs, as they may have to cook for a range of dietary restrictions/preferences. Additionally, they should be adept at producing specialty dishes and cooking for larger groups of people, as they may be asked to cater events.
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Private Chef | Fine Dining: $104k to $170k + Bonus & Benefits
- Atherton, CA
- 2 days ago
- Chino Hills, CA
- 4 days ago
- Pasadena, CA
- 4 days ago
Private Chef | Michelin Star: $104k to $170k + Bonus & Benefits
- Atherton, CA
- 6 days ago
- San Francisco, CA
- 6 days ago
Creative Private Chef For Founder
- San Francisco, CA
- 7 days ago
Private Chef and Captain Duo for Residential Catered Events
- San Francisco, CA
- 9 days ago
- Beverly Hills, CA
- 9 days ago
Private Chef for Family of Five in San Francisco
- San Francisco, CA
- 11 days ago
Private Chef needed for a lovely family of 4
- Los Altos, CA
- 11 days ago
Personal chef for retired couple ( 8 hours/week)
- Cedar Ridge, CA
- 19 days ago
- Beverly Hills, CA
- 23 days ago
Traveling Chef for Private Jet
- Hayward, CA
- 28 days ago
- Redwood City, CA
- 30+ days ago
Personal Chef for Organic Keto Diet
- San Diego, CA
- 12 days ago
Demographic Data for California
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Licensing / Certification
Required or preferred licenses and certifications for Personal Chef positions.
Highest Education Level
- Associate's Degree (35.1%)
- Bachelor's Degree (26.5%)
- Vocational Degree or Certification (15.2%)
- High School or GED (14.8%)
- Master's Degree (4.4%)
- Some College (3.2%)
- Some High School (0.6%)
- Doctorate Degree (0.4%)
Average Work Experience
- 1-2 years (33.3%)
- 2-4 years (23.8%)
- Less than 1 year (19.0%)
- 4-6 years (14.3%)
- None (9.5%)
Qualifications / Skill Sets
The following top skills are often required or desired to land a Personal Chef position
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- Baking
- Banquet Catering
- Breakfast
- Catering
- Communication Skills
- Cooking
- Customer Satisfaction
- Customer Service
- Energetic
- English
- Events
- Farm To Table
- Fine Dining
- Fish
- Flexibility
- Food Handling
- Food Plating
- Food Preparation
- Food Quality
- Food Safety
- Food Service Management
- Friendliness
- Front of House
- Gluten Free Cuisine
- Grocery Shopping
- Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Point
- Inventory Management
- Kitchen Equipment Maintenance
- Kitchen Management
- Kitchen Remodeling
- Knife Skills
- Management
- Meal Planning
- Meal Preparation
- Menu Development
- Menu Planning
- Nutrition
- Ordering
- Organization
- Pastry Making
- Planning
- Portion Control
- Recipe Development
- Salads
- Sanitation
- Sauce Making
- Scheduling
- Scratch Cooking
- Soup Making
- Special Diets
- Staff Supervision
- Staffing
- Training and Development
- Vegetarian Cuisine
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