Honestly I am super impressed with how the prices are. Definitely not something I will ever be able to afford to do. But I was honestly expecting way higher prices
Ever thought about live streaming? You can do it anytime you're trying a new dish or maybe thinking about treating yourself. Making content while doing your every day things knocks 2 birds with one stone. Loving the content
Fuck ton of clients want privacy & the last thing they’d want is to have a stream going in the background of their kitchen. But if the clients don’t care then I’d agree, great idea
@@scotthill1600 I can stream from my own kitchen and most of my clients actually wouldn’t mind. If I keep it in the kitchen there’s no information that would be given away to infringe on their privacy
Just came across your shorts and loved them. I'm from Texas too living in the RGV. Going to culinary school and am fascinated on what things I could do with degree. This could be 1! Thanks for the vids. I'll recommend you to some friends that live in ATX.
Please make videos on how you go about your service and the ins and outs for other home chefs that might want to start their own personal business like this
Can you also make a video about your favorite kitchen essentials? Would like to see more about your knife choice and also the stainless steel mixing bowls! Having a hard time finding the right ones here!
From my experience catering parties. Those are pretty darn reasonable prices. I think at my old job our average was 100-200 a person depending on what was being served and how much support crew was needed to serve(my usual contribution personally). I do live in an extremely expensive area though. So prices do kind of skew to the higher end of things.
He stated that support crew was not included-nor food. Honestly, I think 50-125/person before food or support staff is high, but what do I know? I often do much of the cooking myself and just hire a serving crew that plates & serves, so maybe those prices are normal 🤷🏻♀️
@@tammiehinkle2040 for parties the food is included in that 50-125. If I understand the video right. It’s the private home chef half of his business that charges food costs seperately. Not the party catering half. So say for 10 people at a 100 bucks each. That’s 1200 with the service fee. Not terrible for that sort of business. Although in Texas where he’s at there’s probably plenty of competition. My old job only had a few competitors in literally one of the most expensive counties in the country. So my thoughts on the prices might be a bit skewed.
@draconuuse9731 then that isn't so bad. I have spent $1k on just food for 10-12ppl before, so that's not too bad! Thanks for clearing that up!! Just out of curiosity, where are you located?(I am in LA now, but this is our 11th location(TX, NY, PA, IL, &more)...thank you DoD/military industrial complex for moving my family like chess pieces ;-))
@@tammiehinkle2040 Jackson, Wyoming. Where the billionaires are pricing out the millionaires. Basically land is at a huge premium thanks to all the national parks and forests. Rich people love having vaca homes here for tax reasons. And they love having all the comforts of the big city. But don’t want anyone to build large appartment complexes to house the workers for those businesses. Think someone once said there’s more space in the 50 hotels than in all the low to mid end housing divisions. Don’t know if that’s true or not. But it sure feels like it. So cost of living here is up to about 2k a room for new contracts. With most businesses being equally expensive to possibly pay their employees a somewhat workable wage. As long as that person has a second job or side gig.
Prices have nothing to do with what you think you deserve. Price is determined as the lowest price a business is willing to sell at and the highest price a customer is willing to buy at. For example, barbers thought they could jack up their prices and many went out of business because they lost their clients. Dude cant just double his price
@@sheldonsimon4484called gaslighting for attention. This whole system is a rip off. Take your families out to eat. Don’t support someone who UA-cam’s recipes and charges $100/hr+hidden fees+food.
Why not just roll the service fees into the per person price. I hate service fees and when I stopped including them and baked into the overall (non line item) price my customer base grew exponentially. People always feel like a service fee is a tip therefore negotiable
I am a young chef but I feel I still have a lot to prove in the kitchen, I can cook my ass off but I feel like there’s still things I need to perfect before I start a personal chef journey. My question here is what we’re your initial costs when you were starting your business, or how did you maneuver around maybe not having as much at the start? Thanks for making these videos, knowledge is key
I was curious how you started promoting or marketing yourself. Like the first steps to get your name out there, I’ve been planning on doing some events, dinners, and down the line work my way to owning a food truck but I keep questioning how to start.
Wow 😮 i really hope to have my own personal chef when i get rich. I love to cook but sometimes all the process feels too much to do at busy day!! And by end of the cook, i’m already exhausted 😂
There is so much you can do to help alleviate that. I often precook & freeze items I use regularly. Then I just grab some from column a(meat), a bit fom column b(veg), add a bit of column c(sauce-premade or store bought), and either grab, make, or ignore column d(starch). Then you're not making each component each night :-) It helps....alot.
Ehen you think of creating the meal, shopping,drive time, meal prep, cooking, serving and cleaning id say that's fair. Theses are people who don't have time but have money.
I’ve always wondered what the travelling is like for private chefs, because presumably unless you live in a large city you travel a fair bit? I guess I’m just intrigued by the practicalities of it all.
I never give out pricing, ever. Only when I'm writing the quote in front of client. I might make an exception and tell the client just before we sit down and write the quote, but I'll never put my prices out there for anything.
I did this exact same thing for a few years and I feel like I shorted myself man. I was charging about half what you charge. No wonder I was always fully booked 😅
Have you done an equipment checklist for starting chefs. I want to do small pop up’s for the people in my town/friends and I have what I think are the basics but any tips for that would be great. Also prep techniques for 10+ people would be great.
Definitely thought it'd be more expensive. I think booking you would be more cost-effective and actually a better experience than going to a restaurant. I'd rather book a nice AirBnB, a private chef and invite my closest friends to a party than go somewhere and be around a bunch of stragers.
$100/HR is more than reasonable for any skilled artisan. Have to consider the overhead that has to come out of that too I think you may well be selling yourself short.
You've probably talked about this already, but do you bring more than knifes and utensils to your extended services? Like stainless steel pans and stuff
ok I rewatched it like 3 times now and I'm still not really sure how all this works >< the 400+groceries is when you do premade meals for people so they don't have to cook and the other price is for a dinner party thing where you charge per guest? cuz if so then gotta say with how good the things you cook look I expected it to cost a bit more :D then again where I live it would be quite expensive but still >< different lands :D in either case keep up the good work :>
@@tammiehinkle2040aww thank you! My husband and I have a deep mutual respect for each other, thankfully. He has a wonderful mom and he understands the work that does go into being a wife and mom, so it's not thankless for me! I'm very lucky, he's a good man.
Seems like a vary fair price. Do you get much work during the week? Seems like most of your booking are for the weekend especially if it's for 4 hrs. But just guessing. Hope your schedule stays busy bro! Enjoying the videos
Can we have a personal chef for 5 years or even more? How will a chef feel if we offer him to live in the same house? For example, if one of the floors of the house is for him? So that he can prepare all three meals on time especially breakfast (At 6 am)?!!
How many clients do you book per day and per week? Are there additional fees for rush services (say hastily planned dinner parties or someone needs to travel out of town for business and needs their schedule to move ahead slightly)? I'm so curious about this industry. It feels really lucrative and I love cooking on my own and making my own dishes. The line is not where I want to be forever 😅😅
If there's one thing you have control of - it's how much you'll charge for your marvellous services - they think it's too much they don't have to pay. I don't think it's enough, myself, I think you're selling yourself short.
Damn, was looking for this info and holy shit would that be worth it to me. Too bad I'm in the middle of nowhere because I would pay for this once a month just to have some nice prepped meals for a week. I can cook, I just don't always want to do it.
LOL what? You charge people $100/hr + the cost of ingredients? Do you do meal and dietary planning as well or just the shopping and meal preparation? That's steep af. I've been thinking about becoming a personal chef and I'd feel so bad charging people that much. But I guess my target clientele probably wouldn't be the kind that you keep.
Have you ever gotten to a place and they said they had good cookware but it was really terrible. I know it’s workable but has that happened. I know I want to know the horrors of things.
Wow. That’s unreasonably expensive. $50-125 per person per meal + 20% service fee + service staff and travel + grocery costs 😮 That would easy be $200-300 per person per meal. I don’t think cooking worth that much.
I'd say the pricing is very fair, especially for the home service. You'll save the money on alcohol anyways!
For what he offers I think it’s cheap
Honestly I am super impressed with how the prices are. Definitely not something I will ever be able to afford to do. But I was honestly expecting way higher prices
Never say never brother !
I think if you'd really like this in your life one day you can pull it off! You may need to move countries but definitely attainable. Good luck!
@@KudzaiMukaratirwaLMFAO
Ever thought about live streaming? You can do it anytime you're trying a new dish or maybe thinking about treating yourself. Making content while doing your every day things knocks 2 birds with one stone. Loving the content
By the way, there are not a ton of people doing cooking streams so maybe you can build a bigger following in that niche
Fuck ton of clients want privacy & the last thing they’d want is to have a stream going in the background of their kitchen. But if the clients don’t care then I’d agree, great idea
I’m working on it. Trying to get to 10,000 followers before I do that. I’ve tried it twice and only had one or two people show up
@@scotthill1600 I can stream from my own kitchen and most of my clients actually wouldn’t mind. If I keep it in the kitchen there’s no information that would be given away to infringe on their privacy
@@CulinaryMisfits I’d watch. You got a new follower here
From one chef to another, great videos. Pricing right in line with industry standard for this sort of stuff.
These videos are super cool and informative. Please keep them coming!
Just came across your shorts and loved them. I'm from Texas too living in the RGV. Going to culinary school and am fascinated on what things I could do with degree. This could be 1! Thanks for the vids. I'll recommend you to some friends that live in ATX.
Much success, health, happiness, and blessings to all.
Please make videos on how you go about your service and the ins and outs for other home chefs that might want to start their own personal business like this
Cost info is super helpful and entertaining to watch.
Could you make a video showing how you organise your day eg. Planning,What you bring,time schedule,?
Can you also make a video about your favorite kitchen essentials?
Would like to see more about your knife choice and also the stainless steel mixing bowls! Having a hard time finding the right ones here!
Your content is amazing ..Within few months you gonna be one of the best content creators in you tube all the best
Great Vlog and well done for being honest and telling us your fee.
That's pretty reasonable, and it's probably a highlight of your clients week.
That’s very fair. I love that you shared that part of your service and vocation.
From my experience catering parties. Those are pretty darn reasonable prices. I think at my old job our average was 100-200 a person depending on what was being served and how much support crew was needed to serve(my usual contribution personally). I do live in an extremely expensive area though. So prices do kind of skew to the higher end of things.
He stated that support crew was not included-nor food.
Honestly, I think 50-125/person before food or support staff is high, but what do I know?
I often do much of the cooking myself and just hire a serving crew that plates & serves, so maybe those prices are normal 🤷🏻♀️
@@tammiehinkle2040 for parties the food is included in that 50-125. If I understand the video right. It’s the private home chef half of his business that charges food costs seperately. Not the party catering half.
So say for 10 people at a 100 bucks each. That’s 1200 with the service fee. Not terrible for that sort of business. Although in Texas where he’s at there’s probably plenty of competition. My old job only had a few competitors in literally one of the most expensive counties in the country. So my thoughts on the prices might be a bit skewed.
@draconuuse9731 then that isn't so bad. I have spent $1k on just food for 10-12ppl before, so that's not too bad!
Thanks for clearing that up!!
Just out of curiosity, where are you located?(I am in LA now, but this is our 11th location(TX, NY, PA, IL, &more)...thank you DoD/military industrial complex for moving my family like chess pieces ;-))
@@tammiehinkle2040 Jackson, Wyoming. Where the billionaires are pricing out the millionaires. Basically land is at a huge premium thanks to all the national parks and forests. Rich people love having vaca homes here for tax reasons. And they love having all the comforts of the big city. But don’t want anyone to build large appartment complexes to house the workers for those businesses. Think someone once said there’s more space in the 50 hotels than in all the low to mid end housing divisions. Don’t know if that’s true or not. But it sure feels like it.
So cost of living here is up to about 2k a room for new contracts. With most businesses being equally expensive to possibly pay their employees a somewhat workable wage. As long as that person has a second job or side gig.
Chef you need to double your price. You deserve more due to the high quality and your experience.
Wow, thank you
Prices have nothing to do with what you think you deserve. Price is determined as the lowest price a business is willing to sell at and the highest price a customer is willing to buy at. For example, barbers thought they could jack up their prices and many went out of business because they lost their clients. Dude cant just double his price
@@sheldonsimon4484called gaslighting for attention. This whole system is a rip off. Take your families out to eat. Don’t support someone who UA-cam’s recipes and charges $100/hr+hidden fees+food.
Camo, always a good choice.
Why not just roll the service fees into the per person price. I hate service fees and when I stopped including them and baked into the overall (non line item) price my customer base grew exponentially. People always feel like a service fee is a tip therefore negotiable
I am a young chef but I feel I still have a lot to prove in the kitchen, I can cook my ass off but I feel like there’s still things I need to perfect before I start a personal chef journey. My question here is what we’re your initial costs when you were starting your business, or how did you maneuver around maybe not having as much at the start? Thanks for making these videos, knowledge is key
Very reasonable, in my market which is much smaller than yours it’s around 275 a service average. Scaled to Austin TX is within 10%
Your food looks exquisite
The meal prep service is higher than i was expecting. But i guess that includes shopping for groceries too, which adds a lot of drive time too.
I was curious how you started promoting or marketing yourself. Like the first steps to get your name out there, I’ve been planning on doing some events, dinners, and down the line work my way to owning a food truck but I keep questioning how to start.
Very informative! Love your videos!
Wow 😮 i really hope to have my own personal chef when i get rich. I love to cook but sometimes all the process feels too much to do at busy day!! And by end of the cook, i’m already exhausted 😂
There is so much you can do to help alleviate that.
I often precook & freeze items I use regularly. Then I just grab some from column a(meat), a bit fom column b(veg), add a bit of column c(sauce-premade or store bought), and either grab, make, or ignore column d(starch).
Then you're not making each component each night :-)
It helps....alot.
Planning on winning the lottery? If you aren't already rich, you aren't ever getting there.
that meal prep looking good
The $400 service includes how many meals? Do clients pay this per week? I'm so curious because I would LOVE to do something like this!
I believe the service fee is for a dinner party. At least from what I understood in another video.
So efficient ❤
Looking forward to Las Vegas meal prep!
What's the point of the service fee? Why not just up the actual price?
That’s very fair. If eight people went to a moderately priced restaurant it’d be a thousand dollars with wine/booze.
Great video, thanks for sharing!
wow pretty good price!! promise when I buy my house I'l get your service ❤
Your food looks so yum!
Thanks for the pricing. I subbed!!
I’m a private chef 👩🍳 and after listing to this I’m definitely very low pay. No helpers either and sometimes I have to cook for more than 50 people.
I'll book him just look at that handsome face
Ayo🧍🏽♀️
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Thanks for sharing!!!
Biggest obstacle you faced first starting out? Or something you wished you’d known when you first came up
Ehen you think of creating the meal, shopping,drive time, meal prep, cooking, serving and cleaning id say that's fair. Theses are people who don't have time but have money.
You should do some deals with first time responders. I think you would have a lot of service because we’re busy. We don’t have time to cook healthy.
Here comes the people getting upset at you with all your incredible talent charging a lot of money. Already saw one comment about it.
I’ve always wondered what the travelling is like for private chefs, because presumably unless you live in a large city you travel a fair bit? I guess I’m just intrigued by the practicalities of it all.
I never give out pricing, ever. Only when I'm writing the quote in front of client. I might make an exception and tell the client just before we sit down and write the quote, but I'll never put my prices out there for anything.
I did this exact same thing for a few years and I feel like I shorted myself man. I was charging about half what you charge. No wonder I was always fully booked 😅
The meal prep is a good service imo. Someone with the money that works until 8 or 9 at night wants to come home and heat they dont want to cook a meal
Pretty fair price for all the experience you hold
Have you done an equipment checklist for starting chefs. I want to do small pop up’s for the people in my town/friends and I have what I think are the basics but any tips for that would be great. Also prep techniques for 10+ people would be great.
I'll stick with making my own Ramen Noodles😶👍
Good for you bro 👍
Definitely thought it'd be more expensive. I think booking you would be more cost-effective and actually a better experience than going to a restaurant. I'd rather book a nice AirBnB, a private chef and invite my closest friends to a party than go somewhere and be around a bunch of stragers.
$100/HR is more than reasonable for any skilled artisan.
Have to consider the overhead that has to come out of that too
I think you may well be selling yourself short.
The little brother of Michael from GTAV. 😂
Subscribed. There is just something great about how you are a chef but not a shouting asshole, yet still work with some high caliber people...
You've probably talked about this already, but do you bring more than knifes and utensils to your extended services? Like stainless steel pans and stuff
ok I rewatched it like 3 times now and I'm still not really sure how all this works ><
the 400+groceries is when you do premade meals for people so they don't have to cook and the other price is for a dinner party thing where you charge per guest?
cuz if so then gotta say with how good the things you cook look I expected it to cost a bit more :D
then again where I live it would be quite expensive but still >< different lands :D
in either case keep up the good work :>
I'm a stay at home wife, gonna send this to my husband and let him know how much I'm gonna start charging for being his private chef lol
Corn casserole won’t cut it miss
He’ll bill you for his salary while he’s working
@@Matt-qv8zjThat's probably what his comeback would be, and he'd be right!
You have more value than just cooking!!! SAHM have a difficult & thankless job!!
@@tammiehinkle2040aww thank you! My husband and I have a deep mutual respect for each other, thankfully. He has a wonderful mom and he understands the work that does go into being a wife and mom, so it's not thankless for me! I'm very lucky, he's a good man.
Do you have any suggestions on how somebody would transition from restaurant work to more personal work like yours? What was your transition like?
Seems like a vary fair price. Do you get much work during the week? Seems like most of your booking are for the weekend especially if it's for 4 hrs. But just guessing. Hope your schedule stays busy bro! Enjoying the videos
So cool!
Can we have a personal chef for 5 years or even more? How will a chef feel if we offer him to live in the same house? For example, if one of the floors of the house is for him? So that he can prepare all three meals on time especially breakfast (At 6 am)?!!
Thanks
Service fee? If you’re the only guy just add it in the price ?
Can't wait to see what your website is
How many clients do you book per day and per week? Are there additional fees for rush services (say hastily planned dinner parties or someone needs to travel out of town for business and needs their schedule to move ahead slightly)? I'm so curious about this industry. It feels really lucrative and I love cooking on my own and making my own dishes. The line is not where I want to be forever 😅😅
If there's one thing you have control of - it's how much you'll charge for your marvellous services - they think it's too much they don't have to pay. I don't think it's enough, myself, I think you're selling yourself short.
Damn, was looking for this info and holy shit would that be worth it to me. Too bad I'm in the middle of nowhere because I would pay for this once a month just to have some nice prepped meals for a week. I can cook, I just don't always want to do it.
Too expensive, l will have Abby the Little Chef on a yacht she is amazing
Do u get to make ur own dinner there or
LOL what? You charge people $100/hr + the cost of ingredients? Do you do meal and dietary planning as well or just the shopping and meal preparation? That's steep af. I've been thinking about becoming a personal chef and I'd feel so bad charging people that much. But I guess my target clientele probably wouldn't be the kind that you keep.
Watched it 3x and still don't know how much it cost. 😅 . Meal prep $400 .. I'm lost. 🤯.
My man’s got that Harry Potter apron
Where can I purchase a set of those meal prep containers?
Why not just order out? Wouldn't that be cheaper for the client
high-end restaurants don't offer order out, and they'll also have to pick it up, serve it and clean up the dishes
Bc he’s cooking for you and your party at your house and he makes special meals catered to your likes and it’s a.t home which is always nicer
I'm to poor to afford your services but the pricing seems fair.
Have you ever gotten to a place and they said they had good cookware but it was really terrible. I know it’s workable but has that happened. I know I want to know the horrors of things.
I would have expected the price to be triple that
Can you maje fufu & egusi soup? I live in oakland California ! ( All Love from oakland California )
You look like Michael from gta
So $400 for meal prep for 4hrs I wonder how many meals can get done in those 4 hrs and for how many people????
Hi can you recommend what knives to use ❤
dang thats a good living doing what you love! If you have 1 or 2 regular customer you are kinda set wow.
Do you know what the industry standard is? Been looking in my local area and don't want to get ripped off.
Food looks amazing. Some nice manly food! Awesome!
my dream job
To be honest I expected more. It looks like you provide a high end service and that is not a bad price. Way out of my budget tho 😢
Any tips for a chef wanting to go to a personal chef?
Thanks for the videos chef! Does your per head rate for dinner parties include food costs or are they separate?
Do you have any online resources for someone starting a private chef business?
Any advice for a restaurant chef wanting to transition to personal chef?
Do u ever do 2 in one day ?
Wow. That’s unreasonably expensive. $50-125 per person per meal + 20% service fee + service staff and travel + grocery costs 😮 That would easy be $200-300 per person per meal. I don’t think cooking worth that much.
Nah 100 dollars an hour is far from unreasonable.
Have any of your clients not liked something you’ve cooked before?
Can I do this without a formal education?
How do you get started as a personal chef?
I want to pay this dude to make me a seafood dish that absolutely does not taste like seafood.
Lmao I’ll never understand why… retired at 28 and I’d rather go to a reputable steakhouse…
So handsome and can cook 🎉💕
Do you make your own content or hire someone? Looking to do this but feeling overwhelmed with both thanks!
I do it all
The meal prep means 400$ for 1 week so 3x7 meals?