The gap most Hawaiʻi villas leave open
Most vacation-rental homes on Oʻahu, Maui, Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island come with a beautiful kitchen and almost no one to run it. The pool is serviced, the yard is trimmed — but breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee, drinks and table service are left to whoever in your group draws the short straw.
myCHEF in-villa services close that gap. We supply the chefs, servers, bar staff, baristas and kitchen support that turn a rented estate into a fully serviced place to stay. You tell us your dates, your house and how you like to eat; we build the team around your stay, run it under one coordinator, and charge groceries at cost with receipts. One quote, one coordinator, one service standard — from the first morning coffee to the last cleared plate.
What the service covers
A chef and kitchen team working from your villa kitchen — menu planning before you arrive, daily cooking, and a kitchen left clean after every service. Looking for a chef for a single evening instead? That is a one-night signature dinner; this silo is staffing for the whole stay.
Groceries and provisioning: we shop for you, before arrival and mid-stay, charging ingredients at cost with every receipt handed over — no markup, no handling fee buried in the food bill.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner, from an early chef-cooked breakfast to multi-course evenings; coffee and drinks, from a morning barista to sunset bar service; table service and guest care from servers who set, serve and clear every meal; and full kitchen cleanup after each service.
Who it is for
Families who want their holiday mornings back — breakfast cooked, kids fed first, no supermarket runs. Groups of friends sharing a house who want restaurant-level dinners without splitting up for cars and reservations. Guests who chose a private estate over a resort and expect the service to match.
Executive and corporate groups using a villa as a working base, with timed meals around the agenda. Wedding-week parties filling a house for the days around the ceremony — welcome dinners, recovery breakfasts, the night-before gathering. And multi-generational stays, where feeding grandparents, parents and children three times a day is a logistics problem, not a holiday.
If your group is eight people or eighty, the model is the same: tell us the stay, we build the team.
How it works
One — tell us your stay: dates, island and area, headcount, which meals you want covered, any dietary requirements. A message is enough to start.
Two — we build the team: within a day you receive one written quote showing which roles, which days and what it costs, built from published rates with groceries at cost on top. Adjust the roster until it fits.
Three — one coordinator runs it: once confirmed (50% deposit, balance the day before), a single coordinator manages the roster, the shopping, the timing and any changes. You never manage staff — you talk to one person.
Pricing methodology
There are no invented package prices on this page. Every quote is assembled from the published rate card, in three tiers that map to how groups actually book.
Essential Stay — chef and kitchen assistant: the published Stay Chef day rate, groceries at cost. For groups who want the food handled and will pour their own drinks. Full Service Stay — chef, assistant and servers or a lead host: the kitchen plus the table, meals served, cleared, and the day run for you. Complete F&B Team — custom: chef, assistant, servers, barista mornings, bar on selected evenings, built line by line from the rate table so you see exactly what each role costs.
Two honest grocery models sit side by side. A one-night signature dinner is priced per guest with the food inside that band. A stay service — a chef for the week, breakfast every morning, a full villa team — bills the staff at published rates and the groceries separately at cost, with receipts, never marked up.
Stay service vs one-off catering
Know the two products. One-off catering — a single event dinner, a wedding reception, a party — is a per-person quote with the food included. Stay service — this silo — staffs your villa across the stay: staff time at published rates, groceries extra at cost with receipts. Not sure which fits? Tell us the occasion and we quote the right one, or both side by side.
