# Personal Chef

> Personalchef.com is the public platform of the American Personal & Private Chef Association (APPCA), a San Diego organization supporting independent chefs through business education, membership, networking, a chef directory, and Personal Chef Office management software.

- **Founded:** 1996
- **Headquarters:** San Diego, United States
- **Founders:** Candy Wallace (Founder and Executive Director)
- **Products:** APPCA membership, Home-Study Course, Green Home-Study Course, Personal Chef Office, Find a Chef
- **Notable:** Personal-chef certification partnership with the American Culinary Federation in 2002., Founder Candy Wallace received the IACP Businessperson/Entrepreneur Award of Excellence in April 2003., Expanded membership to private chefs and adopted the APPCA name in October 2006.

## Products & services

- **APPCA membership** — Professional community, member forums, mentoring, referral listings, education discounts, and access to association liability-insurance rates. Insurance is described as access to rates, not automatic coverage.
- **Home-Study Course** — Business training covering marketing, finances, client service, forms, and operations. Founder’s course page, describing a January 2017 manual, lists Option A at $600 with first-year membership and software. Historical posted price; current checkout was not verified.
- **Green Home-Study Course** — Download-based training and business templates. Founder’s page lists $545 and describes a January 2016 manual. Historical posted price; current checkout was not verified.
- **Personal Chef Office** — Web-based recipe and menu management, client assessments, calendar, shopping lists, invoicing, income and expense tracking, and financial exports. The software page advertises access free for APPCA members and more than 1,500 recipes. Availability was not independently tested.
- **Find a Chef** — Directory and web-referral listings connecting prospective clients with independent chefs.
- **The Professional Personal Chef** — 224-page Wiley business textbook by Candy Wallace and Greg Forte, published in 2007. APPCA’s announcement listed a $50 list price at publication.
- **Seminars and workshops** — Business education for prospective and working personal chefs, including recorded seminar materials.

## Achievements

- Personal-chef certification partnership with the American Culinary Federation in 2002.
- Founder Candy Wallace received the IACP Businessperson/Entrepreneur Award of Excellence in April 2003.
- Expanded membership to private chefs and adopted the APPCA name in October 2006.
- Wallace coauthored a Wiley business textbook in 2007.
- ACF’s June 2010 magazine listed Wallace among FENI Medallion of Excellence recipients.

## Latest updates

- **2017-01** — Founder’s Home-Study Course page describes the 17th-edition training manual dated January 2017.
- **2011-02** — ACF’s National Culinary Review reported Wallace’s December 2010 appointment to the Art Institute of California-San Diego Culinary Program Advisory Committee.

## Links

- Website: https://www.personalchef.com/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/personal-chef
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AmerPersChef
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/personalchefassociation

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