Join the Cooperative
When you join the Personal Chefs Cooperative, you add a multitude of talented and experienced culinary professionals to your team. We are a network of chefs with experience in many different aspects of the culinary industry, and you can source information from us and share your experiences, too! Our members include personal chefs, meal delivery chefs, caterers, food product developers, private chefs and more. We welcome chefs who are new or already established and want a fresh approach to building more success in their business. Many of our members are also members of other professional associations and they come here to network at a national level online. Each member’s success is our priority and you will find the support here that every entrepreneur values.
Together, as members of a cooperative, we have the buying and bargaining power of a larger corporation that we might not possess as single entrepreneurs and small business owners. We are continuing to work to get each of us the best pricing and value for the goods and services we all need to run our businesses.
Become a member – three levels of membership
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Business Membership – $99 per year
This is the majority of our memberships. What makes our association unique from other culinary associations is that each of our members is also an Entrepreneur. They own their own business, rather than just working in the food and beverage industry. The majority of our members are Personal Chefs. We also have Private Chefs, Caterers, Food Product Developers, Culinary Instructors, TV segment chefs, Demonstration Chefs, Bloggers and Food writers in our membership, each contributing their area of expertise to our collective membership. Each participating member has a valid business license and operates their business within the laws and health department rules regulated by their local area. Each business member will get a listing on our Personal Chefs for hire directory and/or our Caterers for hire directory. Each member will get a reciprocal link from our website to theirs, members only full forum access to the most active trade forum in our industry and the best member support available.
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Corporate Associate Memberships – $199 per year
This membership is for companies offering products or services that are beneficial to the culinary industry. Corporate Associate membership gets you access to our PC Marketplace Forum where you can tell our members about your products and services they need to run their businesses. You’ll also have the ability to sponsor anything from a canvas bag to a lunch at our future conventions. You’ll have a tradeshow table and ability to speak at our future conventions as well as preferred vendor status.
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Student Memberships (does not include referral site listing) – $49 per year
This membership is for those who have not yet started their business but are in culinary school, college or doing a home study program. Student membership allows you access to all of our forums except for our Social Foodie Forum which is only for Business Members. This membership does not include a referral listing and can be converted to full Business membership with referral listing as soon as you are up and running in your business.
For more information, please contact us at info@personalchefscooperative.com
Phone: (206) 388-3318
