Event Chef

MileHighCook is a private chef and event catering company working across 30 markets in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Wyoming. We are hiring event chefs in all of them.
The work is private dinners in homes, ranches and vacation rentals. Anniversary dinners, small weddings, corporate retreats, family reunions. Usually 6 to 30 guests. You cook in the clients kitchen, plate, serve, and leave it cleaner than you found it.
This is not a restaurant job and it does not pretend to be one. There is no line, no double, and no schedule handed to you. We send you the event, you take it or you pass, and the ones you take are yours to run.
What a typical event looks like
The menu is set with the client weeks ahead, so you walk in knowing exactly what you are cooking
Groceries are covered, either shopped ahead for you or reimbursed
Most events run 5 to 8 hours door to door, mostly evenings and weekends
You are either solo or working with one server we staff alongside you
Guests are usually in the room, so the cooking is half of it and being easy to talk to is the other half
Pay
Up to $650 per event in our resort markets, $500 in the metros, $400 in outlying markets
Flat rate per event, not hourly
You keep 100 percent of the tip
Paid within 5 business days of your event
Groceries are the only reimbursed expense
Who we hire
3 or more years in professional kitchens, or private chef experience
Comfortable running an event off-site without a brigade behind you
Your own knives and reliable transportation to client addresses
Food handler card or ServSafe, or willing to get one
Clean, organized, and calm when the plan changes at the door
How hiring works
Apply at milehighcook.net/apply with your resume and a few plating photos
A short set of recorded video questions on your own time
A live video call with Steve, the owner
Contractor agreement, then you go on the roster and start getting event offers
We answer everyone either way. This is 1099 independent contractor work booked event by event, so you keep whatever else you are doing.
WHERE WE WORK, paste at the bottom Colorado: Aspen, Vail, Beaver Creek, Telluride, Crested Butte, Breckenridge, Steamboat Springs, Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Estes Park, Durango Utah: Park City, Deer Valley, Sundance, Salt Lake City, Provo, Moab, St. George Arizona: Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Sedona, Phoenix, Flagstaff, Tucson, Prescott Wyoming: Jackson Hole, Teton Village, Cody, Sheridan
Tell us on your application which markets you can drive to and we will only send you events in those.