Category Archives: "Chef Career"

Building a Personal Brand

Building a Personal Brand – Here’s How Chef

Building a personal brand in the culinary world as a chef is all about the distinct identity and reputation that you cultivate for yourself – encompassing your values, skills, unique contributions, and overall image across the hospitality industry and community you are part of. Through consistent representation, your personal brand should aim to establish trust, […]

Development chef

Becoming a Development Chef

Being a Development Chef can open up a fascinating culinary world and career but what exactly does the job entail? In this post we take a look at the role, what’s required, the opportunities and more. Development chef – what’s the deal? Development Chefs are the masterminds behind creating new and improved food products. They […]

How to become a chef

Tips on How to Become a Chef

Are you passionate about cooking and want to become a professional chef? Are you interested in making a career out of it? If so, then becoming a professional chef is the perfect job for you. It’s not an easy path, but with the right knowledge and dedication, you can become a successful professional in the […]

Chef Pay Rise

How to Negotiate Your Chef Pay Rise

Editor’s note: How to Negotiate Your Chef Pay Rise was originally published in May 2021 and updated in May 2022. The pandemic has had a wide-ranging impact on the restaurant trade and the hospitality sector. This has been amplified further by the effects of Brexit in the UK. Pre-pandemic it was getting harder to find […]

Chef jobs outside of the kitchen

Chef Jobs Outside of the Kitchen

Editor’s note: Chef Jobs Outside of the Kitchen was originally published in December 2020 and most recently updated in May 2022. The impact of Covid-19 on the hospitality industry has been immense. Changes to the sector have been rapid and frequent throughout the course of the pandemic. How thousands of hospitality businesses have continued to rise […]

Personal Chef

Being Successful as a Private Chef

Editor’s note: Being Successful as a Private Chef was most recently updated in May 2022. We all know that Covid-19 hit the hospitality industry hard with a sizeable number of chefs losing jobs in commercial kitchens. However, as this was unfolding the demand for chefs to work in private households remained steady, and has noticeably increased […]

Quitting Your Chef Job

Editor’s note: Quitting Your Chef Job was originally published in March 2020 and most recently updated in May 2022. Quitting your chef job in the right way can have a real impact on your future chef career. When you stop to think about it for a second, you’ll see how that’s an obvious fact. The […]

Private Chef versus Personal Chef

Editors note: Private Chef versus Personal Chef was originally published in September 2019 and most recently updated in May 2022. Private chef versus Personal chef – It’s easy to think that the terms ‘private chef’ and ‘personal chef’ are interchangeable and make reference to the same role. But while a private chef and a personal […]

Working as a Superyacht Chef

Editor’s note: Working as a Superyacht Chef was originally published in June 2019 and most recently updated in May 2022. A yacht chef is anyone that works on a boat and cooks for guests and crew, guests or just crew. There are around 37,000 yacht crew members employed on the 6,000+ superyachts around the world. […]