Personal Chef, Flexible Daytime Schedule
Location: Client homes throughout Sarasota and Manatee Counties
Schedule: Flexible, one to four client days per week
Typical hours: Approximately 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. for most standard visits
Work arrangement: Independent contractor
Paid onboarding: $15 to $17 per hour
Regular compensation: $175 to $250 per completed client visit
About The Chefette SRQ
The Chefette SRQ helps bring busy families back to the dinner table by preparing fresh, carefully curated meals in the comfort of their own homes.
We are looking for experienced culinary professionals who can independently manage recurring personal-chef visits throughout Sarasota and Manatee Counties. This is not a traditional restaurant line position. You will work in one client’s kitchen at a time, preparing several customized family meals with care, efficiency, and attention to detail.
Our app organizes recipes, grocery lists, client preferences, schedules, and communication so that chefs can focus on creating an excellent experience for each family.
Schedule and flexibility
Chefs may choose to work anywhere from one to four client days per week. We coordinate assignments around each chef’s availability, geographic preferences, client needs, and business demand.
Most standard client days begin around 10:00 a.m. with grocery shopping. Chefs typically arrive at the client’s home by noon and complete cooking and cleanup around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m.
Larger packages may require additional time. The complete visit time includes:
- Reviewing the menu, recipes, and client notes
- Grocery shopping
- Driving to the client’s home
- Unloading and kitchen setup
- Cooking
- Packaging and storing completed meals
- Cleaning the client’s kitchen
- Completing required app updates
Compensation
After onboarding, chefs are paid a flat rate for each successfully completed client visit:
- 3-meal visit: $175, with up to 6 total hours allotted
- 4-meal visit: $215, with up to 7 total hours allotted
- Fully stocked visit: $250, with up to 8 total hours allotted
The full visit rate is still paid when the work is completed successfully in less than the allotted time.
Additional compensation includes:
- 100% of client tips paid to the chef
- $50 gas stipend every biweekly pay period
- Biweekly contractor payments
Paid onboarding and training
Onboarding begins with one co-cook day alongside our head chef, Chef Kymmie. This is followed by one to two additional paid training sessions.
Training is paid at $15 to $17 per hour.
Chefs advance to independent client assignments after demonstrating competence in:
- Food quality and recipe execution
- Multi-meal production and time management
- Kitchen organization
- Food safety and sanitation
- Meal packaging and storage
- Complete kitchen cleanup
- Client communication
- Use of the Chefette SRQ app
Responsibilities
- Review assigned menus, recipes, dietary requirements, and grocery lists before each visit
- Shop for fresh ingredients according to the assigned list and company process
- Arrive at client homes prepared, professional, and on time
- Prepare multiple family-sized meals during one organized cooking session
- Follow recipes while making sound professional adjustments when needed
- Follow documented dietary restrictions, allergies, and client preferences
- Package, label, and properly store completed meals
- Maintain strong food-safety and sanitation standards
- Leave each client’s kitchen clean and orderly
- Complete visit notes and other required updates in the Chefette SRQ app
- Communicate warmly and professionally with clients and the Chefette SRQ team
Qualifications
- Professional restaurant, catering, banquet, private-chef, personal-chef, or comparable culinary experience
- Two or more years of professional cooking experience strongly preferred
- Ability to independently prepare several different meals during one production period
- Strong knife skills and knowledge of fundamental cooking methods
- Excellent kitchen organization and time-management skills
- Current food-safety certification
- Reliable transportation and a valid driver’s license
- Smartphone capable of running the Chefette SRQ app
- Professional chef uniform or approved culinary attire
- Personal chef knives
- Comfortable working independently in private homes
- Comfortable traveling throughout agreed portions of Sarasota and Manatee Counties
- Reliable, detail-oriented, coachable, and professional
- Willing to complete a background check
Experience with dietary accommodations, weekly meal preparation, batch cooking, special diets, catering, or in-home client service is highly desirable.
What The Chefette SRQ provides
- Recipes and curated client menus
- Grocery-list and client-management technology
- Client scheduling and communication support
- Smallwares needed for assigned visits
- Meal containers and packaging materials
- Applicable insurance coverage for assigned work
- Paid onboarding with Chef Kymmie
- Flexible scheduling based on chef availability
- An established client base and operating system
What the chef provides
- Professional knives
- Reliable transportation
- Smartphone
- Professional chef uniform or approved attire
- Consistent availability for accepted assignments
How to apply
Please submit:
- Your resume or a detailed summary of your professional culinary experience
- Your home ZIP code and the parts of Sarasota and Manatee Counties you are willing to serve
- The days of the week you are typically available
- Your current food-safety certification
- A brief example of a time you independently prepared several different meals during one shift or production session
- Optional photos or a portfolio showing your culinary work
Applications that do not include availability and location information may not be considered.
Pay: $29.17 - $31.25 per hour
Work Location: In person
