Building a sustainable career is an important step towards living a successful, fulfilling life.

As personal chefs we follow a unique career path – one of providing exceptional personal services to our clients while owning and operating our own companies – cooking for a living while also operating small businesses and controlling our own destinies as cooks and chefs can be deeply satisfying, and equally challenging since we are operating our individual companies alone. Since we are all independent by nature and creative in business as well as in the kitchen, no two personal chef businesses look alike, nor should they.

How does a personal chef determine what direction their business should take? What options are out there for our choice? How many income streams are appropriate for personal chefs and which ones are the most successful? Where do personal chefs go for information and direction?

That is why we come together annually at the APCA SUMMIT to learn, support and feed our collective hearts through our colleagues contributions to our success in this industry.

APCA has led the industry by providing the most exciting, cutting edge professional prototype national conference that rest of the industry follows each year. You always see it and hear it FIRST at the APCA Summit. By continuously offering topical, original information presented by nationally acknowledged speakers, our original conference raises the bar on the personal chef industry repeatedly and provides the model for all other conferences in this industry. Once again, APCA is addressing the next logical step for personal chef business owners: Building Sustainable Careers and Successful Lives as personal chefs.

APCA succeeded in having the career path validated by the ACF, APCA represents the industry in the culinary world by speaking at the IACP, and WCR national conferences and in press as the “go-to” source for information. This year, APCA will represent the industry abroad by speaking at an international conference in London. Taking the message to the world is what we do for our members and for the industry as a whole. No one is better at it.

We invite you to participate in the 10th Annual APCA Personal Chef Summit.

Come prepared to learn, taste, experience and enjoy taking your personal chef business to the next level. Professional growth and support are what this association is about.

If you are serious about being successful as a personal chef, you have come to the right place.