The Benefits of Membership

• Access to the most active online forums in our industry. Our forums are rich in content and include business materials for caterers and personal chefs, up-to-date information on all business-related and food-related topics vital to running your culinary business, a searchable data base of recipes, and many other valuable resources.
• Employment Search Websites: Your business will be listed on www.personalchefsforhire.com or www.caterersforhire.com, which are the public’s way of finding local members. If your business encompasses both catering and personal chef work, your membership includes listing in both search engines.
• Liability Insurance: With the bargaining power of PCC, you will have access to affordable business liability insurance for every facet of your business. Your policy is your own and not tied to membership fees. You can even cover your home office and computer if you so choose.
• Product and Service Discounts: On behalf of its members, PCC will continue to negotiate with national retailers to form partnerships in order to obtain reduced pricing on merchandise and services.
• Chef Proven Recipes (CPR): Included in our online forum are thousands of recipes that are chef-tested and client favorites, categorized in an easy-to-search format. Our members generously contribute their own recipes to this forum on an ongoing basis, making this one of our most visited and used forums.
• Professional Affiliation: The PCC offers links from our website to yours for members in good standing that will get you higher rankings on search engines.
• Charitable Foundation: The charter members of the PCC have included a charitable component in our planning because we feel that an important part of our business is to give back to the community in some way. Our charitable foundation directors are currently researching potential recipients for our sponsorship. PCC will work hand in hand with a food-based charity and will donate time and money to their cause. We are joining hands to help our community in a large way that will have an impact because of the commitment and focus of our members.
• Member Driven: We have a wealth of talent in our membership and each member is giving of that talent to our team. We operate as a democratic group with an elected executive board of four and an elected board of directors that represents the association. Each member has a voice and a vote. Our association is a true cooperative: owned by the members, run by the members, for the benefit of the members. We utilize the many talents of each member for the good of us all. PCC is the first true trade association in our industry.
• National Marketing of the PCC and our Members: Marketing our association and members nationally is of high priority. Professional culinarians across the country will join their peers here in the PCC when they realize the benefits of being affiliated with a true non-profit trade association where the bottom line is the members’ business success and professional growth. The message we send to the public is that they can be confident that our members are capable professionals who will serve them well.
• Code of Ethics: Our members are professionals who operate their businesses legally according to the regulations and laws of their area. Making this commitment is one of the requirements of membership to the Personal Chefs Cooperative.