AppleOne has partnered with a client in San Clemente seeking an experienced Personal Chef with 5+ years of experience to support a private household and office environment. This direct hire opportunity is ideal for a creative, energetic, and highly organized culinary professional who enjoys preparing healthy, beautifully presented meals while also providing flexible personal and household support. Required Qualifications and Skills
The Personal Chef will play an important role in maintaining a smooth, well-run daily routine for the Founder and family. This position offers a dynamic work environment with close collaboration, high standards, and the opportunity to make a meaningful day-to-day impact through exceptional food preparation, proactive organization, and trusted support. The right candidate will thrive in a fast-paced setting, bring a positive attitude, and take pride in delivering thoughtful, detail-oriented service.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare healthy, high-quality meals for the Founder and family while accommodating dietary restrictions, macros, and nutritional goals.
- Plan menus, manage grocery shopping, maintain kitchen organization, and ensure fresh ingredients and stocked essentials.
- Cook, plate, serve, set up, and clean up meals for both home and office settings according to the client’s schedule.
- Document meal preferences, recipes, tasting notes, and feedback to support continuous improvement and personalized service.
- Coordinate meal preparation around events, travel schedules, and advance meal drops as needed.
- Provide flexible personal support, including errands, organization, occasional event assistance, and maintaining confidentiality in all household matters.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $90,000 per year.
- Job Type: Direct hire.
- Location: Costa Mesa, CA.
- Weekend, evening, event, and short-notice availability may be required based on family, household, and travel schedules.
- Prepare personalized daily meals focused on health, nutrition, presentation, and dietary preferences.
- Manage meal planning, grocery shopping, food prep, kitchen organization, and sanitation.
- Support household, office, event, and travel-related meal coordination.
- Provide flexible personal assistant support, errands, organization, and confidential household assistance.
- 6 to 10 years of relevant culinary, personal chef, private household, hospitality, or high-touch food service experience.
- Strong cooking skills with the ability to prepare healthy, balanced, and visually appealing meals.
- Understanding of dietary restrictions, nutritional balance, macros, freshness standards, and safe food handling practices.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment with professionalism, discretion, and a service-focused mindset.
- Excellent organization, communication, time management, and attention to detail.
- Flexibility to work nights, weekends, parties, events, and changing schedules as needed.
- Comfortable supporting both kitchen responsibilities and personal assistant-style household tasks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in a private household, executive household, family office, boutique hospitality environment, or similar high-discretion setting.
- Background in menu planning for health-focused, macro-conscious, or specialized dietary needs.
- Experience supporting events, travel meal prep, meal drops, and last-minute schedule changes.
- Strong recipe documentation skills and ability to track preferences, feedback, and continuous improvement.
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