As part of your booking, a small non-refundable, taxable component is included. This ensures:

• 24/7 customer support, 24/7 client support throughout planning & delivery,
• Public Liability Insurance, Public liability insurance for your event,
• Secure payment processing, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Direct Debit, AMEX payments,
• Funds management & distribution, funds held until service is delivered,
• Chef recruitment, onboarding, Chef vetting, and quality checks,
• Website & Software costs, Ongoing platform, technology, and service management.

This component is built into every CHEFIN experience to guarantee quality, safety, and peace of mind.

Example Booking Fee structures are listed below:

• Romantic Dinner for 2: $1,225.00 total inclusive of $183.75 Booking Fee & $18.38 GST
• 3-Course Meal for 8: $1,560.00 total inclusive of $234.00 Booking Fee & $23.40 GST
• Full Course Meal for 6: $1,470.00 inclusive of $220.50 Booking Fee & $22.05 GST

Please be aware the Booking Fee is non-refundable in any circumstance. Please view our cancellation policy for more information.

For example, as the 1st of January is a full-day public holiday, if you want to hire a Chef for New Year’s Eve, the 31st of December is considered a half-day public holiday with surcharge rates applied after 7 pm on the 31st of December every year.

There are Chefs on the platform available for breakfast, lunch & dinner services at any time during the week. Chefs are available also for last minute chef bookings, with at least 12h notice!

For more information always check the state government website in which you reside. This can be done by following the below Health links:

• Health Direct: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/coronavirus-covid-19-information-by-state-and-territory
• Federal Government: https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/easing-of-coronavirus-covid-19-restrictions/easing-of-coronavirus-covid-19-restrictions

CHEFIN ensures each Chef & Staff that will serve you in your home does only 1 booking every 15 days for quarantine purposes – this eliminates any risk of contamination from 1 guest’s group to another. COVID-19 symptoms are proven to appear within 15 days of initial contamination (if any).

Food safety: from the information we know at present, COVID-19 doesn’t seem to be spread by food

• All Chefs have completed a current Food Safety Supervisors’ course
• Applying extra hygiene practices:
  • washing hands on entering & exiting & throughout the service,
  • wipe down & sanitisation of surfaces regularly throughout the service,
  • the mandatory practice of good respiratory etiquette,
  • ensure guests stay at least 1.5 metres away from the counter and from each other,
  • practise hand hygiene between guests
•  Competency in the Australian Government course: How to protect yourself and the people you are caring for from infection with COVID-19?
  • Course info: https://covid-19training.gov.au/inc/login.php
  • Course manual: https://covid-19training.gov.au/res/coronavirus_elearning_reference.pdf

The Chef will bring all the ingredients and will finish each dish from the menu in your kitchen utilising whatever equipment is available from your kitchen & also the CHEFIN certified equipment brought with them.

Your Chef will serve you and your guests while also providing an explanation of each dish and, when possible, discussing their techniques and recipes during the cooking process.

When the meal is finished, your Chef will clean the kitchen area before leaving you to bask in the glory of a wonderful event.

This is to ensure only the best quality, local produce is used to deliver mouth-watering deliciousness for everyone indulging in Chef’s creations.

All CHEFIN menus are tailored; crafted individually for each event. CHEFIN Chefs are extremely creative and as such love to cook unique and different dishes each time. Although some dishes might appear similar they are slightly different based on seasonal produce and availability.

CHEFIN customers team up with private chefs to create delicious menus for their hungry guests. Around 500 to be exact as of the date of writing this post (Dec 2018). Let us know if you would like to see some examples!

All menus require an approval from you before these are finalised and the Chef rushes to buy fresh and local ingredients. If you would like a surprise, please let us know and we can organise a Blindfolded dinner for you!

Our chefs can then consult with CHEFIN’s extensive library of dietary requirements and substitutions, and design a menu that will satisfy the tastes of you and all of your guests, regardless of diet. Our chef will also be present on the day, preparing your food, and available for any questions and last-minute requests. So if one of your guests has forgotten to note their nut allergy, you can mention it then and there to the chef.

That said, you will have to include the time for decorating the venue as part of your booking time. For example, if you want to book the venue for a 4-hour party, you’ll have to include the decoration time as part of that, so you may want to hire the venue out for 5 hours instead. This will give you plenty of time to put the decorations up, and remove them once the event is over.

Of course, the time spent putting up/removing decorations will depend on how fancy you’re gonna get, so please allocate enough time to ensure you’re able to get everything up/down on time.