A Personal Chef’s main responsibility is to prepare dishes that meet clients’ tastes, serving needs and nutritional requirements. To fulfill this, they may perform the following job duties:

• Consulting with clients to explore their needs, food preferences, allergies and dietary restrictions
• Developing recipes for appetizers, salads, soups, entrées, sides and desserts
• Creating menus with meal options clients can select from
• Sourcing high-quality ingredients
• Preparing breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks
• Packaging and storing foods for clients to reheat
• Cleaning and sanitizing cookware, cooking utensils and workstations
• Adhering to food safety and hygiene rules and regulations

Skills

• Planning meals based on client needs
• Shopping for requested or required food and ingredients to prepare meals
• Cleaning up the kitchen or area where the meal was prepared after the meals are made
• Packaging meals for future use
• Labeling food and ingredients in an organized way
• Storing prepared items in the client or organization's freezer or refrigerator
• Managing a team of other chefs or cooks or oversee catering
• Overseeing the scheduling of any kitchen staff that works alongside the personal chef
• Creating customized meal plans
• Stocking the client's pantry with requested foods
• Sanitizing the area that was used to prepare food