Make More Money Cooking

Cooking for a lot of people can be daunting and we know that first hand. This is why we have come up with a sweet spot, a place that we feel comfortable planning and cooking for our clients. When starting a personal chef business, you need to go over this step so you can make sure to not crash and burn. Trust us, we have crashed and we have burned and it is not a good feeling. 

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Stacking your menus can save your business life from burnout. Making sure that you have menus setup for consecutive parties of meal preps can literally put you ahead of the game instead of running behind and trying to play catch up. Personal Chef and Private Chef work has its tricks and they must be used in order for you to be successful at executing them in a timely manner. Ryan Francis and Anthony Nicaj give you some insight as to how you can make stacking menus a part of your weekly routine so you never get caught with your pants down. 

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There are quite a few of online personal chef courses out there and some of which might work for you and some of which might work for others. Either way, we have taken them and we want to be sure that people don't end up wasting their hard earned money trying to figure out which one is best for them. 

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You have to cook somewhere. Ryan and Anthony talk about the evolution of where they have cooked from and where they are now. There is always going to be struggles but this is one that can make or break your business, especially as you grow and scale. Kitchen spaces are essential to cooking, obviously, but there are tips and tricks to figuring out how to spot good ones and the ones to avoid. 

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You are going to need help when you are trying to scale your business, you are even going to need help when you are trying to get through your first week. It is always difficult to figure out how and what to pay your helping hands. Ryan and Anthony go over how they pay their people so that it is fair and people want to continue to come back to help again. 

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Let's face it. We all need to make money for something to be worth while. In business this comes down to whether your business is profitable or not. You have to know your profit margins and how to calculate them in order to make sure that you are making enough money to pay yourself at the end of the day. Ryan Francis and Anthony Nicaj go over profit margins and just how important they are to your business. 

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Some people think that there are no hidden costs to this business but there is and we think people should know about it. There are always going to be hidden costs in every business that you try to create but nobody ever knows what they are. Ryan Francis and Anthony Nicaj go over the things that we wish they knew when they started their personal chef business. You can waste a lot of money and we would like to help you not do that! 

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Meal prep is a large revenue stream for people in the personal chef world and it should be because it creates a recurring payment stream for you. There are several ways to go about starting your meal prep service so we go over a couple of them and the pros and cons of each so you can have a leg up on your competition! 

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Figuring out how much people can eat can be a trick all in of itself. Ryan and Anthony go over just how we figure out portion sizes especially when you are trying to feed multiple people. 

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Cooking classes will inevitably become part of your personal chef business so we go over some of the things that you might want to know before trying to do them blindly. Ryan Francis and Anthony Nicaj go over some of the things that make cooking classes appealing to them and why you should think about adding them to your services. 

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