Option A: Home-Study Course ($695) includes:
- The most up-to-date, comprehensive training materials in the personal-chef field, The American Personal & Private Chef Institute Training Materials (6th edition, 2008), is written by Candy Wallace, APPCA executive director and award-winning expert in the industry. It includes valuable information designed to assist you with:
- A Day in the Life of a Personal Chef & Time Management
- Advertising & Media Relations
- Business-Collateral Materials
- Checklists, Forms & Glossary of Food Terms
- Effective Business Planning
- Finances
- Municipal Regulations & Taxes
- Target Marketing
- The Sales Process and Customer Service
- Mastercook Deluxe 9.0 Complete Recipe and Nutrition Manager software. NO annual leasing fees. You own and keep all of your recipes/menus securely on your computer's hard drive.
- Personal Chef Office — revolutionary online personal-chef-specific software, which provides recipe-, menu- and business-tracking tools that eliminate the need for expensive, time-consuming set up of generic support software. It works seamlessly with your 1,500 tested Mastercook recipes and cookbooks. Since this is online web-based software, you can access it securely from anywhere. Works great with MAC computers too.
- A copy of The Professional Personal Chef: The Business of Doing Business as a Personal Chef (Wiley, 2007). The book not only offers a primer on what it takes to launch a thriving personal-chef business, but submits shrewd case studies from successful personal chefs.
- 1st-year membership to APPCA.
- 2 hour “A Day in the Life of a Personal Chef” a DVD that shows you the rhythm of a personal-chef cook date and walks you through just how doable this career is for you.
- Access to the private Members Discussion Forum, where you can share stories, get ideas, and build your network. It includes more than 100,000 searchable, topic-specific posts by working personal chefs. This is a personal chef graduate school, of sorts, as it is the most comprehensive knowledge base available in the personal-chef industry.
- A Web referral page on “Find A Chef” registry at www.personalchefsearch.com. This registry has maintained the #1-ranking with search engines since 1995.
- Access to national-association rates for A+ rated general-liability insurance for personal chefs. We offer the most comprehensive and flexible risk coverage for your business available. Go to www.personalchefinsurance.com.
- Exclusive Web Custom Design and Hosting Services at deep discount rates.
- Embroidered APPCA membership patch for your chef coat.
- APPCA membership identification card.
- Certificate of course completion.
- Shopping discounts for members.
- Eligibility for regional and local chapter memberships.
- Member discount for annual Personal Chef Summit Educational Conferences and Culinary Tours.
- Ongoing support, networking, mentoring and coaching.
- Fast and effective member services.
- Shipping and handling via USPS Priority Mail is included.
PLUS Our Quick Start CD-ROM that includes:
- Electronic, formatted recipes of the Recipe Volume for use with Mastercook and Personal Chef Office software.
- Customized business forms, slide presentations, and “ready to use” templated files to get you started quickly.
- Startup checklists to manage costs and save time.
- A complete press release and media kit with sample templates.
- Heating and freezing recipe information.
- Sample brochures and fliers.
- Scores of sample forms critical to your personal-chef business.
- Numerous multimedia film clips and many other valuable online resources.
This program has been carefully designed to help you have your personal-chef business on track within 30 to 60 days.
This is an outstanding value for only $695!
APPCA consistently and consciously sets the highest standards for the personal-chef industry. We stand by our training programs and our membership’s success, delivering in our philosophy, “promises made, promises kept.”
The APPCI training programs and materials are the source material for the written certification exam offered through the ACF/APPCA certification partnership.
There are no hidden fees in the APPCI/APPCA training programs or membership.
Option A is the core curriculum of all APPCI training programs. To facilitate your personal-chef growth, once Option A has been purchased by a member in good standing, Options B and/or C may be obtained by deducting the cost of Option A from the purchase price.