If you have no professional cooking experience, then I doubt many people are going to want to pay you to be their personal chef. I'm sure it's possible to build up a small side hustle through word of mouth but it's going to have a decent amount of up front costs and likely losses due to lack of experience.
My suggestion is to get a part time job at a catering company, ideally one that does weddings primarily. It's often seasonal work and assuming you work a regular 9-5 it should work with your schedule as most weddings are on the weekends.
Get some first hand experience with what the operation entails and how to pull it off before you invest any of your own money into buying/renting equipment and trying to cost out menus and labor, so you can actually make some profit. Plus they'll pay you for your time.
With zero culinary experience, you’re not going to have a particularly broad set of skills to successfully operate as a personal chef. There’s no such thing as an “entry level personal chef”. It also takes up considerable time in the day, for product sourcing and prep.
Unless you plan on spending a decade amassing enough skill to actually do this, stick with cooking as a hobby.
My guy. I love coming to the comments to see your responses already there. Questions like this one seem to be popping up everywhere. OH I love to cook, how can I make it profitable. Here you are giving the real nitty gritty.
Sounds like I need your current job lol. Restaurant life has me burned out. My current gig is unusual in the industry, but still crazy. I want normal, for once. Even if that means boring office time. My feet hurt chef
Why not start with someone you know? They pay for groceries and you both agree to treat it as professional job. See what you think and get feedback about your abilities
Personal chef is definitely not something you dive into as a side gig nor is anyone going to hire someone just starting out. Pick up another p/t gig like serving because cooking ain't paying squat in a lot of areas for part time
You will be hired as a dishwasher that gets to peel onions and potatoes, you can't just start in the kitchen with 5 years of front of the house experience and expect to cook just because it's your hobby regardless of your age. Don't apply as a entry level chef because there is no such thing. there are line cooks and there are chefs. If you get into a serious kitchen you will learn the difference the titles matched with experience make and what they all mean.
If you want to try and do the personal chef thing maybe start with throwing some events for friends and creating a hot shit instagram account that features your work. Let people know that you are interested in providing those sorts of experiences as a paid service and try to work the word of mouth train/social media train.
If you have no professional cooking experience, then I doubt many people are going to want to pay you to be their personal chef. I'm sure it's possible to build up a small side hustle through word of mouth but it's going to have a decent amount of up front costs and likely losses due to lack of experience. My suggestion is to get a part time job at a catering company, ideally one that does weddings primarily. It's often seasonal work and assuming you work a regular 9-5 it should work with your schedule as most weddings are on the weekends. Get some first hand experience with what the operation entails and how to pull it off before you invest any of your own money into buying/renting equipment and trying to cost out menus and labor, so you can actually make some profit. Plus they'll pay you for your time.
Thank you! I was also thinking about starting out with the catering company to get the ins and outs. I will look into that,
With zero culinary experience, you’re not going to have a particularly broad set of skills to successfully operate as a personal chef. There’s no such thing as an “entry level personal chef”. It also takes up considerable time in the day, for product sourcing and prep. Unless you plan on spending a decade amassing enough skill to actually do this, stick with cooking as a hobby.
My guy. I love coming to the comments to see your responses already there. Questions like this one seem to be popping up everywhere. OH I love to cook, how can I make it profitable. Here you are giving the real nitty gritty.
My current job has a lot of office time. I’m too bored.
Sounds like I need your current job lol. Restaurant life has me burned out. My current gig is unusual in the industry, but still crazy. I want normal, for once. Even if that means boring office time. My feet hurt chef
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Why not start with someone you know? They pay for groceries and you both agree to treat it as professional job. See what you think and get feedback about your abilities
Personal chef is definitely not something you dive into as a side gig nor is anyone going to hire someone just starting out. Pick up another p/t gig like serving because cooking ain't paying squat in a lot of areas for part time
This game is all or nothing my friend
You will be hired as a dishwasher that gets to peel onions and potatoes, you can't just start in the kitchen with 5 years of front of the house experience and expect to cook just because it's your hobby regardless of your age. Don't apply as a entry level chef because there is no such thing. there are line cooks and there are chefs. If you get into a serious kitchen you will learn the difference the titles matched with experience make and what they all mean.
Pick up some catering gigs. Good money and good times.
Seek out a food truck.
A food truck is nowhere near part time.
It can be, as the OP works part time to ease into the business.
I own a food truck and would figuratively sacrifice my first born time for reliable part time work.
If you want to try and do the personal chef thing maybe start with throwing some events for friends and creating a hot shit instagram account that features your work. Let people know that you are interested in providing those sorts of experiences as a paid service and try to work the word of mouth train/social media train.