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What Your Price Must Include, and What Take a Chef/ PCM Charges You

What your quoted price must cover

When you build a proposal, the price per person must already include:

  • Menu design
  • Your transportation to the client's address
  • The ingredients — if the request is for for a single service
  • Preparation and table service
  • Cleanup of the kitchen and cooking area
  • Any local taxes that apply to you

You do not invoice the client separately for groceries on a single service. Build the ingredient cost into the price.

Multiple-day and extended services are different

You still do the shopping, but the ingredient cost is reimbursed by the client on top of your fee. Keep the receipts, share them at the end of each day, and agree with the client whether they reimburse in cash or by transfer.

What you don't have to provide

Item Who
Cooking equipment — pots, pans, oven, hob The client's kitchen. Bring your own knives or specialist tools if you prefer
Plates, glassware, cutlery, serving items The client
Table, chairs, dining setup The client

If your menu needs something the kitchen might not have, message the client before the service and agree who brings it.

What you can charge separately

Drinks and wine · extra waitstaff or an assistant · tableware and table styling · decoration and ambience. Agree these with the client in advance and add them as extras.

Note that extras don't change the per-person menu price — the client sees them as optional items at checkout, so the extra price stays separate.

What Take a Chef charges you

  • Take a Chef bookings: we deduct a 20% commission from each confirmed service. You receive 80%.
  • Partner bookings (Airbnb Luxe, Rental Escapes, FoundersCard, Velocity Black and similar): Take a Chef takes a reduced 5% and the partner typically takes 15%, which can rise to 20% on long-term collaborations. Total commission usually reaches 20%, leaving you 80%.
  • Private Chef Manager connections: all PCM plans carry a 2.9% service fee on bookings that come through a PCM partnership connection, such as your connected Airbnb listing. This is charged to your card and is separate from, and additional to, the Take a Chef commission — it does not apply to Take a Chef bookings.

Your invoice for our commission

You invoice the client for 100% of the service. We pay you your share and issue you our invoice for the commission we retained, so you can record it as an expense. Ask Cheffie or email info@privatechefmanager.com with your registered email and the period you need.

When you get paid

Payouts are processed 48 business hours after the service is completed. Saturdays, Sundays and Spanish national holidays don't count. Payment goes by wire transfer through Wise (Revolut in the UK; PayPal where Wise isn't available). How fast it lands depends on your bank.

The most common causes of a delay are an incomplete billing address (no house number, or a PO box — not accepted), out-of-date bank details, a missing invoice, or a service under investigation after a client complaint.