How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Chef Business

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Professional personal chefs are no longer limited to only the wealthy; instead it's a booming business with a lot of opportunity. How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Personal Chef Business by Carla and Lee Rowley takes you step-by-step in transforming your passion for cooking to a highly profitable business. Today, personal chefs are needed in a variety of environments, including busy families, individuals working long hours, seniors, gourmets with no time to cook for themselves, or people with specific dietary restrictions. As a personal chef, you may work in the client's personal kitchen or a rented kitchen, where the food is then packaged, labeled, and delivered or stored. Read this book to learn what setting you're more likely to thrive, enjoy, and succeed in, as well as explore your professional business skills!

Learn how to market your services as affordable, timesaving, stress free, and potentially a healthy alternative to someone's previous meals. Also, explore the ins and outs of daily operation through this book's step-by-step guide. The authors point out ways to achieve success as well as potential downfalls or mistakes you could encounter. Complete with a companion CD-ROM, this resource provides a PDF of all forms in the book for additional copies or to keep your book free of writing.

Through detailed instructions and examples, the authors discuss a plethora of crucial topics, including successful kitchen management, equipment layout, food safety, and HACCP. Ensure prospective customers know about your business through sales and marketing techniques, public relations, publicity, and low cost internal marketing strategies. This book even explores low or no cost ways to satisfy customers! Any path to success would be incomplete without a discussion of finances. Flip through these pages to learn profitable menu planning, successful budgeting, bookkeeping procedures, accounting, and much more!

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