Even if you enjoy food and love to cook, you might not have time in your busy schedule to prepare healthy and delicious meals on a daily basis. Meal preparation is even more of a challenge if you have dietary restrictions, household members with different tastes, or keep an irregular schedule.
To solve these dilemmas and eat better than ever before, here is a comparison of personal chef vs. private chef to help you choose the right household professional for your culinary needs.
Typical Duties of a Personal Chef
Personal chefs typically run their own businesses and set their own work schedules around their clients’ needs. They may work for multiple clients at the same time. Personal chefs often make pre-prepared meals in their clients’ homes so that they can be preserved and reheated on future days.
Common personal chef duties include shopping for ingredients, customizing menus, preparing meals in clients’ kitchens, and leaving behind reheating instructions. These chefs will also clean up the kitchen after they are done and may offer evening and weekend services on an as-needed basis for special occasions.
Typical Duties of a Private Chef
Private chefs dedicate themselves to just one client and are typically employed on a full-time basis at a private residence. They prepare fresh meals daily and often live onsite at the client’s home. Private chefs may be part of a larger household staffing team and are on-call for holidays, weekends, and business trips.
Common private chef duties include planning daily menus, making fresh food for each meal, grocery shopping, organizing ingredients in the kitchen, clean-up, and being on call for snacks and travel. Pavillion Agency can help you hire a highly qualified and expertly trained full-time chef, part-time chef, private summer chef, or arrange for drop-off chef services.
Benefits of Each Kind of Chef
Personal chefs are beneficial because they allow clients to enjoy professionally prepared meals at their leisure and also plan ahead for special events. Meanwhile, private chefs are beneficial because their attention is devoted solely to you and your dietary needs and wishes. Both types of chefs benefit individuals and families by taking the burden out of meal planning, food preparation, grocery shopping, and kitchen clean-up so that you can enjoy healthy and delicious meals with no hassle.
How Client Relationships Differ Between Personal and Private Chefs
The chef/client relationship is considerably different based on whether you hire a personal chef vs. private chef. The relationship between a personal chef and a client is somewhat more distant and professional because personal chefs are self-employed, set their own hours, have multiple clients, and do not live in the same residence as the client. However, private chef/client relationships are closer and more personal because these chefs have just one client, often live in-residence, accompany the client on trips, and develop deep connections with their clients over time.
Find Your Ideal Personal or Private Chef Through Pavillion
As you begin to come to a conclusion about whether a personal chef vs. private chef is better-suited for your household needs, contact Pavillion Agency to take the first steps in the hiring process. Pavillion is the leading staffing agency for household chefs who can accommodate even the most discerning client’s daily dietary needs, busy schedule, and special events. We work with only the best full-time and part-time chefs, as well as corporate dining room chefs, summer chefs, and short-term chefs during times of transition.
Please take a moment to fill out our family application to tell us more about what you’re looking for in a chef, or give us a call at 212-889-6609. We look forward to helping you make this your healthiest, most delicious, and most hassle-free year yet!
