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Private chef, personal chef: the difference is the day.
A private chef cooks your dinners and events live in your kitchen — service, plating, cleanup. A personal chef batch-cooks a week of meals on a schedule and leaves them labeled. myCHEF is the former; the kamaʻāina weekly line covers the latter on Oʻahu and Kauaʻi.
Which one you actually need
A vacation week with dinners cooked and served: private chef, per-guest or Stay Chef day rate. A resident household wanting a week of prepared meals: the kamaʻāina weekly service — from $300 a week on Oʻahu, $550–$1,200 on Kauaʻi.
Why the terms get blurred
Marketplaces use “personal chef” for event work because the keyword volume is there. We use the terms precisely so the quote matches the service you pictured.
Keep reading
- guide Private chef vs. restaurant: the real arithmetic.
- guide A fixed written quote vs. a bid queue.
- guide Read before you book.
- guide How a private chef works, in four steps.
- guide Hiring a private chef in Hawaiʻi, without the runaround.
- guide Which island is yours?
- guide What your kitchen needs — less than you think.
- guide Signature dinners: food in the band. Stay Chef: groceries at cost.
Get a written quote
The button is not “Book now.” You tell us the table; we send a written quote — and that quote is the confirmed total.