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Build a successful career as a private chef.

Practical private-chef training, built from 20+ years of combined real-world experience.

Learn how to get started, set yourself up properly, price your services, find clients and build a private-chef career that gives you more income, freedom and opportunity.

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20+Years combined experience
£250kTurnover in our first year together
TrustedBy professional athletes and high-net-worth clients
Real worldPrivate-chef and business experience

Built on real-world experience

We’ve been where you are.

We’re two ex-ski bums who became chefs so we could work in incredible places (but mostly so we could ski every day).

Between us, we’ve built over 20 years of experience as chefs, much of it spent privately in luxury chalets, villas and households around the world. Since returning to the UK, we’ve turned that experience into several private-chef and catering businesses, generating over £250,000 in our first year working together and building relationships with professional sports teams, athletes, celebrities and other high-net-worth clients.

We didn’t have a blueprint. We started small, worked some ridiculous hours, took risks and made plenty of expensive mistakes along the way. The Private Chef Academy exists to give you the guidance we wish we’d had, so you can learn from what worked, avoid what didn’t, and build your own career as a private chef faster than we did.

Tommy Cole & Sam HoughFounders, The Private Chef Academy.
Tommy Cole and Sam Hough together in Switzerland
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