Temporary

Private Chef

Choose a private chef for your next celebration!

Imagine having your very own personal chef preparing a customised menu for your upcoming event

Get Your Time Back With Our Private Chef Agency!

We Can Prepare Any Cuisine

Our private chefs come from a wide range of culinary backgrounds and possess extensive experience. Whether it’s gourmet canapes or a simple sausage sizzle, we can do it for you.

We Save You Time

Let’s face it, preparing food for all your guests can be a lot of work. So why not save yourself the time and stress by handing it over to a professional?

We Work From Anywhere

Whether it’s your backyard, home kitchen, function venue or even a yacht, our private chefs have the skill, experience and equipment to set up shop wherever you need!

We Can Provide Entire Teams

Our huge pool of pre-vetted hospitality workers goes beyond private chefs and also includes wait staff, bartenders and more. If needed, we can provide you with an entire team for your event.

Why Choose Us As Your Hospitality Agency

Owned and operated by hospitality professionals, we love this industry and the people in it.

Prepare To Have Your Mind Blown By Our Personal Chefs

More personal than a restaurant and a truly unique experience: get your very own private chef for your upcoming event!

Want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your guests?

Take the stress out of entertaining and let one of our private chefs do the hard work for you.

Whether it’s a dinner party, cocktail party, BBQ or even a children’s birthday celebration, let us worry about the cooking and cleaning!

When you invite one of our chefs into your home, you can be assured you’re getting one of the best.

All the chefs chosen for personal assignments are carefully selected and come from illustrious backgrounds, including:

Fine dining establishments
5-star hotels
1 & 2 hat restaurants
Michelin star restaurants

No need to sweat it out in the kitchen – instead, you’ll have an experienced private chef providing you and your guests with a fresh, restaurant-tier gastronomic experience.

Get your time back – arrange a meeting with I Need A Chef to arrange a private chef for your upcoming event. Just need an extra pair of hands? That’s fine too: it’s your party!

Private Chefs For All Kinds Of Events

Whatever the occasion, from fine dining to casual events, we can happily assist:

Want A Stress-Free Culinary Experience?

If so, you’ve come to the right place! With I Need A Chef, there's no need for you to worry about the food - we've got it all covered.

We don’t just provide private chefs – our hospitality agency provides a range of experienced hospitality staff for all sorts of events and functions. If you need, you can hire a full kitchen brigade for your upcoming event! In addition to kitchen staff, we can also provide your event with:

Wait staff
Bartenders
Dessert chefs
Demo chefs
Baristas
Front-of-house staff / hosts

Our Chefs Work Wherever They Need To!

You'll be able to relax and enjoy your event as if you were a guest, too!

Don’t have an extensive kitchen at your home? Not a problem – our personal chefs can work in any kind of environment, from kitchens at event spaces to the kitchen in your very own home.

Whatever it is, we’ll make it work – as they say, only a poor craftsman blames their tools, and our private chefs are some of the best in the business!

Permanent Private Chefs

Looking to add your very own chef to your household staff?

It’s the ultimate in convenience – never again will you have to worry about grocery shopping, preparing meals, and cleaning up. Lucky you!

Many of our chefs come from backgrounds in 5-star hotels and other elite hospitality businesses. If you’re looking for a permanent addition to your house staff, you can trust us to find you the right candidate.

Hire Our Talent

We believe we have one of the best call out rates for Temporary staff in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, and also open to discussing different pricing structures that work for you.

Recent Testimonial

Just a note again to thank you for your efforts over the last few months, it’s always a pleasure to work with the INAC team and I know I can trust you to deliver exactly what I need – which is exactly what you done over the last weeks Spring Carnival Period. From my end, nothing is ever a bother for you even when there’s last minute changes or requests and check in ran extremely smoothly.

It is with immense gratitude and admiration that I reach out to express our heartfelt appreciation for your outstanding efforts during the preparation and execution of the Caulfield Cup Carnival race week. Your partnership and the hard work of your staffing teams were integral to the remarkable success of the event, and I’d like to highlight the outstanding achievements of the three unforgettable race days.

Aussie Farmers Direct hired a couple of chefs for an event Ride2Work day. Chef Matt & Pip came to work with us for a few hours and absolutely excelled. They were both so professional and really made an effort to talk and interact with customers. This behavior came so naturally that copious amounts of people were asking if they worked for Aussie Farmers Direct. We will definitely be doing business again.

Thank you for making the event a success!

We have used #ineedachef for 8-years. They have helped us out with vol. and staff shortages so many times. They always send great Chefs and have an understanding of our regional requirements. They are such a valuable asset for us, and provide peace of mind for the rest of our kitchen team, because they know we are going to get great Chefs everytime.

We recently had a function and engaged the services of a Chef and waiting staff from I Need a Chef. It took all the stress and hassle out of organising our dinner. The Staff were fantastic at engaging with the guests and the food was served hot and on time. The I Need a Chef booking team were efficient and professional. Would definitely use again.

Caroline was unbelievably amazing, sourcing me a wait person at less than 24 hours notice. Not only was the communication excellent, the person that she sent was fantastic – very personable and professional. Caroline, I can’t thank you enough, you did a brilliant job!

I signed up with I need a chef in August 2018 after working in my own business for 7 years. Since then I have been kept very busy at great venues and have worked alongside some fantastic chefs who have now become friends. Would highly recommend these guys, they have a great reputation amongst their clients and in the industry, I wish I’d joined them years ago!

Honestly one of the best companies i have worked for. Great Hours and work opportunity with fantastic management and a fun team. I am looking forward to coming back and working for I Need A Chef again. Highly recommend to anyone who like a change of work environment.

Started with INAC last year. Great team to work with, they fitted shifts around my life and even through the quiet period I still had plenty of work. Gave me long placements interstate and supported me when I found a permanent position on the coast. Can’t recommend highly enough.