Personal chef services for your family
Chefs with extensive experience in private residences
Flexible placements for permanent and seasonal roles
International talent available for local positions
What kind of personal chef do you need
We select not just a chef, but a culinary specialist tailored to your lifestyle, dietary needs and schedule.
Permanent personal chef
Daily meal preparation and menu planning while the chef lives separately.
Permanent chef for daily service
Full-time specialist handling breakfast, lunch and dinner with precise attention to family preferences and dietary needs.
Event and seasonal chef
Experienced professional for private events, holidays and temporary placements at your residence.
Traveling chef for international trips
Focus on dietary needs, nutrition planning and customized menus while maintaining high culinary standards.
Travel chef
Accompanies the family on trips and seasonal relocations, maintaining consistent culinary excellence worldwide.
Rotational chef
Two chefs working in shifts of several days or weeks to ensure uninterrupted premium dining service.
International chef placement and relocation support
We support families living across multiple countries, spending seasons abroad, or planning relocation. We consider visa requirements, languages, cultural specifics, and the chef’s readiness for travel.
What chefs do we present to families
Before concluding a contract and discussing your request in detail, we can send you several chef profiles as examples, however their current availability and relevance to a specific vacancy will need to be clarified separately.
Carlos
Philippe
Isabella
Marco
What a personal chef does in your family
The functionality is always tailored to the family, but most often it includes the following.
Daily Meal Preparation
- Organizes family nutrition — creates a personalized menu taking into account the tastes, dietary needs, and medical recommendations of each family member.
- Prepares restaurant-level dishes — every day creates fresh, diverse, and healthy meals right at your home using quality products.
- Responsible for procurement and quality — independently selects fresh ingredients, controls their quality, and handles plating and maintaining order in the kitchen.
Menu Planning and Personalized Diets
- Takes into account the needs of children and adults — provides balanced, healthy, and tasty nutrition adapted to the age and lifestyle of all family members.
- Works with special diets — easily prepares gluten-free, vegetarian, sports, hypoallergenic, and other dietary programs.
- Flexibly accompanies the family — when needed, travels with the family and maintains the usual high standard of culinary service in any conditions.
Additional services such as event catering, travel accompaniment, and wine pairing are discussed individually and stated in the contract.
Why choose Royal Keeper when hiring a personal chef
We help families skip months of searching and connect directly with vetted chefs — locally and worldwide
Limited access to strong candidates
Royal Keeper has a large private database: we have been working since 2000, and many chefs deliberately do not post their CVs online or enter the open market. You gain access to professionals impossible to find through regular listings.
Fast selection of experienced chefs
When a family needs a personal chef at short notice, independent searching takes weeks. We already know who is currently available and can present first candidates quickly for both permanent and event-based roles.
Continuity when a chef departs
Chef departures happen. The agency ensures you are never left without support: we immediately launch a new search and arrange a smooth handover to maintain your daily culinary standards.
Support for international and relocation needs
When relocating to another country it is difficult to know where to find a personal chef locally, whom to trust and what the market expects. Royal Keeper operates worldwide and helps source chefs in different countries, taking language, culture and culinary nuances into account.
Risk of fraud and unqualified candidates
Over the years we have built extensive candidate histories: we know where and how they worked, which families recommended them and how they handled challenges. This lets us filter out suspicious and unqualified profiles before they ever reach your interview stage.
Most families who first try to find a personal chef on their own encounter the same difficulties — lack of time, uncertainty and the risk of making a mistake. Royal Keeper takes care of all that so you can focus on your family instead of endless interviews.
Need household staff or a nanny?
Leave a request and a Royal Keeper recruiter will get in touch
to discuss your needs and propose the first candidates.
How we recruit staff
Request diagnostics
We discuss the family's lifestyle, schedule, level of responsibility, and service expectations — not just a list of duties.
Contract signing
We record all key collaboration terms in an individual contract. After signing, the team launches the project.
Search and selection
We run an extensive search, interview candidates, and verify their experience, references, and work history.
Finalist presentation
You receive a shortlist with detailed profiles and recruiter notes; interviews are arranged with selected candidates.
Onboarding support
We help agree on terms, support onboarding, and remain available for any questions after the candidate starts.
Request diagnostics
We discuss the family's lifestyle, schedule, level of responsibility, and service expectations — not just a list of duties.
Contract signing
We record all key collaboration terms in an individual contract. After signing, the team launches the project.
Search and selection
We run an extensive search, interview candidates, and verify their experience, references, and work history.
Finalist presentation
You receive a shortlist with detailed profiles and recruiter notes; interviews are arranged with selected candidates.
Onboarding support
We help agree on terms, support onboarding, and remain available for any questions after the candidate starts.
Safety and privacy
standards
standards
We work with private households where what matters
is not just skills, but the nanny's ethics too.
Verified experience in private households and checked references.
Competency-based interviews: reactions to non-standard situations, approach to discipline, gadgets and personal boundaries.
Confidentiality: ban on publishing family photos and information, NDA on request.
VIP environment understanding: many nannies have already worked in public and international families.
About Us
Royal Keeper is an international agency for the selection of premium household staff and nannies for families around the world, founded in 2000. For over 25 years we have combined luxury service standards with a very attentive approach to each family.
Our recruitment team speaks several languages and works with clients across Europe, the UK, the USA, the Middle East and Asia, so we understand the cultural nuances and requirements of different countries.
We build long-term relationships: most families come back to us or refer their friends, and candidates bring their colleagues and acquaintances.
Service pricing and cooperation terms
Agency Fee
Ranges from 12% to 22% of the specialist’s annual salary and depends on the country of recruitment, the level of the position, the urgency of the search, and the selected contract format. The replacement guarantee period ranges from 6 to 12 months, and the number of replacements depends on the selected contract.
Fee Payment
Payment is made in two stages: an initial deposit is required to confirm the order and start work on the request, and the remaining balance is paid after the candidate has been approved.
Special Terms
Special conditions are available for returning clients, repeat requests, and orders involving the selection of several specialists for one family.
Personal chef for your family
Many families today are looking for a way to eat well and healthily without spending all their free time on cooking and meal planning. That’s exactly what a personal chef does — they take full responsibility for organizing your family’s meals. They create a menu tailored to your family’s tastes and habits, while taking into account any diets, restrictions, or medical recommendations.
They don’t just cook ordinary home food. They prepare restaurant-quality dishes using fresh, high-quality ingredients right in your own kitchen. This becomes especially valuable in families with children — you can be sure that dinner will be balanced and nutritious. The same goes for those who follow special diets, whether gluten-free, vegetarian, sports-oriented, or any other.
Beyond cooking itself, the chef handles grocery shopping, checks the quality of ingredients, and beautifully plates the dishes. If needed, they can travel with the family on vacation or to the countryside and continue cooking in the same style. In the end, parents no longer have to think about menus, shopping, or cooking, knowing that there will always be varied, tasty, and healthy food at home.
