Title:  Chef
Work days:  Primarily Monday – Friday, 12:00 noon – 9:00 pm, but hours will fluctuate as required by employee’s responsibilities and the family’s needs
Duties:  Running the kitchen area of the house, doing all grocery shopping, cooking meals, cleaning up kitchen areas as appropriate, cooking for parties/guests, occasional travel to the residence in Aspen, and other requests consistent with the position of personal chef in the home
Direct Supervisor: Services Chief of Staff
Compensation Structure:  Hourly, guaranteed minimum 40 hours per week, paid overtime when required, plus discretionary annual bonus
Compensation Amount:  To be determined based upon qualifications and experience of candidate
Benefits:  100% premium coverage for the Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

Vacation, Sick Days, and Holidays:  10 PTO (Paid Time Off) days per calendar year.  The family also observes the following paid holidays when they fall on a regularly scheduled workday:  New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas.

Driver’s License:  Candidate shall at all times maintain a valid California driver’s license.

Confidentiality:  As the family values its privacy, candidate will agree to execute a Confidentiality Agreement

Exclusivity:  Sole job with no moonlighting

Travel:  From time to time, may involve overnight travel outside the city of Los Angeles, including both domestic and international locations.

Preferred experience: 10 years plus of professional chef work in a restaurant environment, catering and/or in a private home setting

Education:  Preference for credentialed degree from culinary school

Two days a week – A wonderful woman in Brentwood is looking for a chef to drop off dinner 2 days a week. She has had a chef for 8 years -but he is returning to France. She loves wonderful inventive food – good vegetable dishes, and interesting chicken dishes. This is very straight forward – 250 a day for drop offs!
Let us know if you are interested!

Calling all CIA trained personal chefs!
This Bel Air family is looking for an organic and healthy chef that will also be open to cooking a ‘steak and potatoes’ meal every once in a while. The family would love to find someone who wants to take care of a family and be of service. Menu planning, grocery shopping at local organic markets and kitchen organization are all part of this job. This person could have restaurant experience as well as private chef experience– most important is that you have worked in an environment where service is part of the job. Attitude is important in this fully staffed home. The kitchen is exquisite and recently remodeled. Candidate must be flexible to cook some mornings, majority of meals will be lunches and dinners. Family travels to second home in North Malibu during the summer so you must be flexible to travel and with your schedule. Salary is completely DOE. Send resumes and references…

Lovely Lady in the Hollywood Hills is looking for a drop-off Chef.  The ideal scenario is to have food for seven days dropped off twice per week, ideally every Tuesday & Friday.  She’s happy to have dishes that last a couple days so you’re not being asked to cook 7 separate lunches and 7 dinners.  It’s more about quality and volume than it is about variety.  Pay is up to $400 per drop off, plus food costs, depending on experience.  Please reach out if you’re interested and have experience as a drop-off Chef.

Awesome client is in need of a fantastic chef to help get him and his wife on a health eating patern! They need delicious while nutritious meals, low cal, all clean.

You must have a strong culinary background to be considered. The perfect chef is a culinary school graduate with a nutrition background, experience working for high profile clients and various diets.

This will be BLD in the Studio City/Hollywood Hills area. You will put all the meals together and might serve, but it is very casual. They would like to have the fridge is stocked with options and you will be there to do the cooking.

This is a $250/day DOE position. You will be reimbursed for groceries and paid through payroll.

Please be able to start MONDAY, JULY 31st!!!

Awesome and super busy family of six in Brentwood is looking for a Cook/Nanny who can work M-F from 1pm to 9pm. The duties are cooking dinner (simple, clean family dinners!) plus prepping food for breakfast, snacks and lunches, along with driving the kiddos wherever they need to go and helping with homework and general family organization. We don’t necessarily need a culinary trained Chef for this position — but rather a really solid home cook who LOVES kids and is willing to take on a hybrid position. Please reach out if you’re interested. Thanks so much!

SAN FRANCISCO: We are looking for a fresh, healthy clean chef to cook dinners a few nights a week in Palo Alto for a family of 4 (kids are 2 &4.)

Ideal candidate will have worked in Japan, or trained with a regarded Japanese chef. Any experience working in Japanese restaurants is also ideal.

Schedule is flexible M-F, and we would love a chef who can work at least one Saturday night a month for dinner parties.

We want to find a lovely, calm chef who will become part of this amazing household team.

Please send professional resumes in Word doc to: sfjobs@thehelpcompany.com

Do you love to cook healthy farm to table fresh food? We have the perfect job for you! This wonderful and high profile family in Brentwood is looking for an experienced private chef who knows how to navigate a private home and brings delicious meals to enhance their culinary life. Please be great with specialty diets and accommodating allergies. The perfect chef is low-key, kind, soft spoken and very service oriented.

The schedule is roughly 12pm 8pm, Monday – Friday with flexibility to do some weekends, (if you work a Saturday for example, you will get Monday off.) You will be making dinner everyday for the family and leaving things in the fridge for easy lunches and snacks. We really want someone who is a team player, has a service attitude and understands family dynamics. The ideal candidate will have a culinary school background, relaxed and low key personality and a curiosity to keep up on all the food trends.

Responsibilities include:

– Menu planning
– Shabbat dinner every Friday
– Executing dinner parties
– Understanding and continuing education on your end of food trends and techniques
– Knowledge and curiosity for gluten free and diary free cooking
– Grocery shopping
– Keeping the pantry and refrigerator spotless and updated with fresh items
– Maintaining a spotless, tidy and organized kitchen
– Ensure all appliances and aspects of the kitchen are working, clean and updated
– Maintaining relationships with local farmer’s market vendors, sommeliers and other food specialists
– Organize and direct deep cleaning of the kitchen when needed
– Help and assist catering staff for large events
– Prepare food for school lunches and outings
– Make sure fridge is stocked for days you are not working
– Flexible schedule please

Salary is 80-100k with medical insurance for the right chef!

We are looking for a private chef Monday through Friday in Palo Alto for a family of 4 (mom, dad and two kids ages 10 & 13.)

The family has never had a private chef before and is excited for someone to cook delicious, healthy and innovative dinners for them!

Dinner is served at 6:30 (family style unless there is a dinner guest, which is rare.)

Occasionally they will have a dinner party on a Saturday night for up to 10 guests.

Must have a minimum of 5 years recent full time experience working as a private chef in the Bay Area.

You should also have experience working in High End restaurants.

Please send professional resumes to: sfjobs@thehelpcompany.com

Salary DOE, $400/day plus cost of food!

Amazing family of four (one of the kids is away at college and only home on occasion) in Hancock Park is looking for a Monday through Thursday Chef who loves to cook healthy & delicious family dinners plus snacks to stock in the fridge/pantry. You will also market, organize the pantry/fridge and occasionally do an errand or two. Pay is $250/day ON THE BOOKS. Paid time off is TBD. Please reach out if you are interested in working for one of the coolest E. side families we know! Thank you.