The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 76 Chef Charles Hunter III on Using Social Media and a Blog to Launch His Personal Chef Business

Nashville personal chef charles hunter III of the salted table
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Welcome to the Chefs Without Restaurants podcast. I’m your host Chris Spear. On the show, I have conversations with culinary entrepreneurs, and people in the food and beverage industry who took a different route. They’re caterers, research chefs, personal chefs cookbook authors, food truckers, farmers, cottage bakers and all sorts of culinary renegades. I myself fall into the personal chef category, as I started my personal chef business Perfect Little Bites 10 years ago. And while I started working in kitchens in 1992, surprisingly, I’ve literally never worked in a restaurant.

This week we speak with Charles Hunter III. He’s a personal chef, recipe developer and food blogger based in Nashville, Tennessee. He’s the owner of The Salted Table Company, an in-home catering company that prepares meals for backyard weddings, dinner parties, business dinners and more, in the comfort of your own home. Charles and I have similar backgrounds as it relates to blogging, and the personal chef business, so I really wanted to ask him some questions about how he got started, and how he runs his business. Some of the things we talk about are using social media as a tool for growing your business, being a chef who blogs, dinner party fiascoes and pricing your dinners. 

You can find Charles sharing his recipes, and kitchen musings, on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest. He also has a Patreon where you can pay $6/month for exclusive recipes, kitchen tips and advice for all things culinary. You can find links to all of the social media platforms below.

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The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 65 Discussing the State of the Catering and Personal Chef Industries with Chef Brendon Hudson of Liliahna Catering

The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 65 Discussing the State of the Catering and Personal Chef Industries with Chef Brendon Hudson of Liliahna Catering
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On the podcast this week I have chef Brendon Hudson. He’s owner and chef of Liliahna catering company. Brendon was recently voted Best Chef by Baltimore Magazine’s readers poll.

We discuss the state of the catering and personal chef business, the rise of the micro-wedding, the Thumbtack platform and more.

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Outro music provided by podcast guest Dylan Ubaldo (check out Toyomansi)

Intro Music: District Four by Kevin MacLeod

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The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 63 Charging For Your Services, Content Creation and So Much More – A Discussion with Chef Justin Khanna part 2

The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 63 Charging For Your Services, Content Creation and So Much More - A Discussion with Chef Justin Khanna part 2
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This is part 2 of a discussion I had with chef Justin Khanna. If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, I suggest listening to it first, as this episode jumps right into the middle of our discussion. Justin is the co-founder of Voyager’s Table, a bespoke event production company. He’s also the host of The Emulsion podcast, and has a YouTube channel that has more than 20,000 subscribers.  Justin spent a number of years working in, and staging in, some of the best restaurants in the world including Per Se, Grace, Noma and Frantzen. This is part one of our interview. Part two will be released next. We discuss:

·                  The transition from restaurant cooking, to the personal chef & event business. 

·                  Staging

·                  Content creation, podcasts & YouTube

·                  Best practices from the world’s best chefs

·                  Pop-ups

·                  Charging for your services

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Intro Music: District Four by Kevin MacLeod

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The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 57 Line Cook Thoughts with Ray Delucci and Chris Spear – Starting a Personal Chef Business, Building a Community and Food Industry Issues

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On this episode, Chefs Without Restaurants founder Chris Spear speaks with Ray Delucci of the Line Cook Thoughts podcast. The episode originally aired on January 12, 2020. The discussion revolves around starting a personal chef business, building a community, podcasting and various food industry issues. Chris shared advice for all the line cooks, and aspiring food entrepreneurs out there. If you haven’t checked out Line Cook Thoughts, go do so.
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Intro Music: District Four by Kevin MacLeod

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The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 52 Los Angeles Chef Christina Xenos of Sweet Greek Personal Chef Services

The Chefs Without Restaurants Podcast – Episode 52 Los Angeles Chef Christina Xenos of Sweet Greek Personal Chef Services
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On this episode, we have Christina Xenos. She is a Los Angeles-based personal chef, and owner of Sweet Greek Personal Chef Services. She’s also a recipe developer, does cooking classes and is the co-author of Opa. The healthy Greek Cookbook. She was also recently on an episode of “A New Leaf” on NBC, and The Cooking Channel’s Food: Fact or Fiction.

We discuss Greek cooking, getting on a national TV show, how Covid-19 has impacted her personal chef business, and cooking at The James Beard House with chef Argiro Barbarigou.

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Some of her favorite culinary resources are Sally’s Baking Addiction, Husbands That Cook and Ina Garten

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