Pricing & Bookkeeping for Personal Chefs

Learn how to price your services, track expenses, manage taxes, and build a profitable personal chef business.

What you'll learn
- Set profitable prices for meal prep, dinner parties, and cooking classes based on time, value, and client expectations.
- Understand the psychology behind pricing and use it to confidently communicate your rates to clients.
- Organize income and expenses using a simple bookkeeping system designed specifically for personal chef businesses.
- Recognize legitimate tax deductions and keep accurate records to stay compliant with the IRS.
- Separate business and personal finances to manage money like a professional and reduce end-of-year stress.
- Evaluate your business performance so you can make smart decisions about pricing, services, and growth.

Requirements
- No bookkeeping or accounting experience is needed — this course is designed for beginners.
- You should already be running or planning to start a personal chef business or similar food service.
- A willingness to review your business numbers and pricing to improve profitability.

Description
Learn how to price your services, track expenses, manage taxes, and build a profitable personal chef business.

Are you a cook or chef who loves working with clients but struggles when it comes to pricing or keeping track of your money? This course is designed just forpersonal chefswho want to understand how to confidently price their services and manage their business finances.

You’ll learn how to calculate your service fees formeal prep, dinner parties, and cooking classes. We’ll cover the psychology behind pricing, how to stop charging by the hour, and how to create profitable service packages that clients happily pay for.

Then, you’ll dive intobookkeeping for personal chefs, including how to organize your income and expenses, what’s tax deductible, when to pay taxes, and how to prepare your business for long-term success. You’ll learn how to handle your financial records efficiently and know when to bring in professional help.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a complete system to price your services, track your money, and understand the business side of being a personal chef. You’ll feel confident knowing your prices reflect your true value and that your books are ready for tax time.

Bookkeeping for Personal Chefs

What's Included:

Lesson 1 - Bookkeeping 101:learn the right and wrong way to handle funds received, how to use a business bank account, and Federal Tax ID information

Lesson 2 - The IRS & You:understand your relationship with the IRS, percentage of tax money to set aside, when to pay your first year of business taxes, and actual consequences of not paying taxes on time

Lesson 3 - What's Tax Deductible:how to organize your books for ease of income reporting, specific information on tax deductible items, what is a home office tax deduction, and what are necessary business expenses

Lesson 4 - Record Keeping:what records you should keep, the IRS requirements for bookkeeping, questions to ask yourself about your accounting practices, company performance statistics to track, how to track vehicle expenses, and knowing when to hire a CPA vs a bookkeeper

Pricing for Personal Chefs

What's Included:

Lesson 1: Pricing 101

Lesson 2: Pricing Meal Prep Services

Lesson 3: Pricing Dinner Parties & Events

Lesson 4: Pricing Cooking Classes

Who this course is for:
- Personal chefs who want to understand how to manage the money side of their business.
- Cooks and caterers planning to start offering in-home meal prep, dinner parties, or private cooking services.
- Aspiring personal chefs who want to learn how to set prices, handle money, and build a sustainable business from the start.
- Experienced chefs who feel unsure about pricing their services or staying organized with taxes and expenses.
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