Everything You Need to Book Your First Profitable Private Dinner
A self-paced digital course for chefs who know how to cook but have never run a private dinner as a business. From pricing your first event to getting your first paying client.
You Can Execute a Dinner. You Just Do Not Know How to Run One as a Business.
You have the skills. You can plan a menu, prep a five-course meal, and plate it beautifully. But when someone asks what you charge for a private dinner, you freeze.
How do you calculate a per-person price? How do you find clients who will actually pay for this? What goes in a contract? How do you handle grocery costs? What happens when the client wants to negotiate?
These are business questions. Culinary school did not cover them. YouTube recipes will not answer them. And guessing gets expensive fast.
The Complete Starter System for Private Dinner Chefs
The Private Dinner Launch Kit is a self-paced digital course designed for chefs who know how to cook but have never run a private dinner as a business. Six core modules. Each one ends with something you can use immediately.
No fluff. No theory. No cooking content. Just the business infrastructure you need to go from idea to your first paying dinner.
What's Included
6 Core Modules (video lessons, 5-10 minutes each, with downloadable worksheets):
Module 1: Private Dinner Business Foundations
Legal setup, insurance basics, business structure. The unglamorous stuff that protects you.
Module 2: Pricing for Profit
Per-person pricing, food cost calculations, margin targets. You will know exactly what to charge by the end of this module.
Module 3: Your First Menu System
Designing menus that are profitable and impressive. Not a recipe book. A system for building menus that make money.
Module 4: Finding Your First Clients
Where they are, how to reach them, what to say. No cold calling. No paid ads. Real strategies that work when you are just starting.
Module 5: The Client Experience
Consultations, proposals, contracts, follow-up. How to look professional from the first conversation.
Module 6: Event Day Execution
Timelines, prep lists, service flow, cleanup. A repeatable process so every event runs smoothly.
Plus these tools:
Who This Is For
For You If:
This is for you if you are a skilled home cook, culinary graduate, or working chef who wants to start doing private dinners but has zero or minimal experience running one as a business. You need structure. You do not know what you do not know. You want a concrete starting point, not another YouTube rabbit hole.
Not For You If:
This is not for you if you are already doing 4+ private dinners per month and need help scaling. Look at the Dinner Business Accelerator instead.
Why This Price
$197 is less than what most chefs undercharge on a single dinner event. It is also below the USPCA's $595 membership and most competitor programs. The pricing guide alone could recover this investment on your very first dinner.
Research shows courses priced above $200 achieve 61% higher completion rates. $197 sits at that threshold. You are not just buying information. You are investing in your business, and people who invest finish the work.
What to Expect
Self-paced online course
Lifetime access
Complete in 2-3 weeks at 30 min/day
Fully asynchronous
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee.
Complete the first three modules. If you do not feel confident about pricing your first dinner, email me and I will refund you. No questions, no hassle.