Inside the life of Silicon Valley private chefs who make up to $170,000 to fly on private planes, drive Lamborghinis and live in California mansions
, work-from-home is here to stay — as are Silicon Valley's many millionaires and billionaires.
One job listing in San Francisco offered $8,000 to $12,000 a month with a requirement that the chef is"able to deliver tasty, creative meals free from dairy, wheat, gluten, sugar, and salt." Max Porterkhamsy is a former executive chef of the Mayo Family Winery Reserve Room in Kenwood, California, and he previously worked at the prestigious Le Bernardin restaurant in New York. When he turned to private cooking several years ago, he stepped into a different and sometimes surreal world.
The company is built on a core tenet of the private-chef world, which is that people who hire private chefs often have more money than they have time. In some ways, being a chef is like running a small business. Many of the chefs Insider spoke with have to create menus days or weeks in advance and get the sign-off from their clients. Most are also responsible for keeping the kitchen organized and clean between meals. For those who work as freelancers, moving between clients and events, it literally is a small business.
Traveling chefs often find themselves packing private planes with ice chests full of favorite food and wine.While it's common for job ads to specify that they want a chef with a background at Michelin-starred restaurants, Barone said most clients don't want restaurant-style food seven days a week. Barone, Porterkhamsy, and the other chefs I spoke with for this story wouldn't tell me clients' names or any specifics about the people they've worked for. One chef said she couldn't talk to me at all because she'd signed an NDA with every single client she'd ever cooked for.
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