Is this career for you?

• Do you cook for a living, but are tired of the long hours and low pay?
• Are you an experienced self-taught cook who wants to turn your talents into a home-based business?
• Do you have a business background and a passion for cooking and want to make a career change?
• Are you an experienced personal chef looking for a group to provide ongoing support and information for your business, networking and personal growth opportunities?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, a career as a Personal Chef and CPCA membership might be just what you're looking for.

As a Personal Chef, you will provide a valuable service for your clients, find satisfaction from doing something you love, and be your own boss.

To become a successful, profitable Personal Chef, you will need the best information, training and support you can get. Our mission is to provide you with just that. All of the logistics and details of operating a Personal Chef service are available through extensive training materials from the Culinary Business Academy. For 13 years they have been compiling all of the "how-to's", recipes, operational and marketing knowledge of over 5,000 trained personal chefs, into a comprehensive package of information that will help you get started in your new career as fast as possible.

The signature of a CPCA personal chef is simply the quality and storability of their finished recipes. Excellent food is what keeps your clients coming back. Along with business training, you will receive hundreds of recipes that have been tested and proven for storability and taste upon re-heating. This lets you focus on finding new clients, instead of spending hours and money developing and perfecting your own recipes.

Starting your own business is scary, but unlike most small business owners, you will have access to hundreds of your peers.  Need marketing ideas, special diet recipes, help finding great equipment? No problem.  With your purchase of CBA training, you will also receive a membership in the Canadian Personal Chef Association (CPCA) and United States Personal Chef Association (USPCA), putting you in touch with an extensive program of on-going support. 

From the USPCA you will receive liability insurance, your own website, Personal Chef magazine, access to their extensive recipe exchange, and opportunities for on-going training through their Certified Personal Chef program and local and regional conferences.  From the CPCA, you will receive local support, Canadian media coverage and access to other personal chefs across Canada via our website, www.pchef.ca.

Knowledge is the most lucrative investment you can make - the payoff is your own success. Training with the Culinary Business Academy will be one of the best investments you can make in your new career. On going support through the US and Canadian Personal Chef Associations will keep you on track as you get your business up and running.

For complete details about our membership and training options, follow this link to request an information package.