Marketing is the backbone to your personal or private chef business. People need to know how and where to find you and that is the basis behind marketing as a whole. There are always ways creative ways that we can market our services and Ryan and Anthony talk about how you can make that happen. 

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Ryan and Anthony talk about their schedules and how they manage their time when they are gearing up for a dinner party. Dinner parties can be stressful but they are lucrative and knowing how to manage your time when you are prepping or planning one is essential to your success. Dive in! 

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Ryan and Anthony chat about how vital creating content is in the success of growing your business. There are multiple ways that you can create content but doing so is what allows the general public to see and understand what kind of food that you create as a personal chef. 

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Ryan and Anthony talk about how important having social media (and knowing how to use it) are to your personal and private chef businesses. There are always new trends and new ways to promote your business but it is crucial to know exactly what each platform can do for you!

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A website is your version of an actual storefront and the guys talk about just how important your digital footprint is. If it is not the most important thing in this business it is because cooking is! 

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Menu Development is one of the biggest tasks that you will have to master when you are working as a private chef. Ryan and Anthony give their insights on how to make menus efficiently and collectively so that you can do what you do best, create great food! 

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Private Chef work during a pandemic has never been done before and we go over our experience with it so far. It was been a crazy ride for Gather and Forge but we have been able to fix things that we didn't know were broken and add new revenue streams that align with the time. 

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Ryan and Anthony talk about in-home equipment versus using your own equipment. This is one of those subjects that contains some great insight on what you should and should not bring to your event. 

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Ryan and Anthony discuss how they go about offering container options when it comes to meal prepping or in-home personal cheffing. 

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In Episode 20, Ryan and Anthony talk in depth about contracts and when we used them and when we do not. There are several different variables when it comes to this kind of work and we want to help mitigate any kind of risk from bad clients and also really great clients. 

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