Jewels, is taking her Personal Chef Business, “The Roving Stove” a step farther, by offering the cook in the family, new ways to think on our feet. She helps us to get organized, showing us that we can all be our own best friend in the kitchen, just by following her guidelines. She has it all mapped out and proves that she can help a lot of cooks spend more time with our families sharing a meal, rather than standing over a hot stove every weeknight. With the summer months around the corner Jewels is just in time to help get us started. I like her innovative thinking and it has served her very well. Here’s what we discussed.
Me: Building your own website business, keeping it fresh and current, is a lot of work. You certainly have been busy. What is it you are offering to the home cook that will help him/her to be more organized? With your system what’s different than other websites, and how can people get better than average help by using your program? Can you offer a few tips please?
Jewels: I hear “… But I don’t know how to cook” all the time. The reality is that if you can read, you can cook (the ingredients and directions are right there in front of you). I think the fear comes in trying to learn alone, and what JulieAnneRhodes.com offers is almost a decade of my experience as a successful personal chef, an arsenal of my client approved recipes, and a whole community of support in the forum. You are never really alone. Sure, I’m often in there giving advice, but I’m thrilled to see how members are coming together as a community to support each other, and share their own recipes and experiences too. That is the kind of environment that I learned to spread my wings in as a personal chef, and it gives me such joy to watch it unfold on my own website as well.
Me: Let’s see if I have this right. You offer two services. The first being that you and your team’s personal chef services can be reserved for private parties and such, and the second is that you show every person signing up on your website how to turn their kitchen into an organized place where you cook one day, prepping for the whole week. Is this right?
Jewels: I still have my personal chef service, “The Roving Stove“. My regular weekly clients are the mainstay of that business – I do for them exactly what I’m showing the home cook to do for themselves on the website: cook three to five meals in advance, so dinner goes from fridge to table in as little as five minutes on busy weekday nights. Okay, so my clients don’t have to shop, prep, and cook, but then they pay me a fortune to do all that for them. With just a few hours of effort (which can also be a lot of fun) on the weekend, my members save up to ten hours a week free-time to do the things that really matter to them while still getting a home-cooked meal on the table every night. Plus the premium members save even more time with access to my weekly meal plan complete with menu, recipes, grocery list, and heat to eat instructions – all the guesswork is already done for them, and they love that help!
I also offer private consultations and custom menu plans on the website, and occasionally I will do dinner parties, tea parties, or a romantic dinner for two; but people do need to book me pretty far in advance as my schedule is definitely full.
Me: I liked your idea of giving new moms more freedom to spend with their new babies. Explain how someone may offer this gift to a loved one or friend. It sounds like a very generous way to help someone.
Jewels: I’m really popular on the new mommy circuit, because my service lets them rest assured their family will be eating healthy, and they can concentrate on the happy new transition in their lives rather than, “Oh no, I have to think of something to serve for dinner, run to the store because I don’t have half the ingredients, and cook!” This is a great gift certificate for any new or expectant mother. Contact me at “The Roving Stove“ for more information. You can buy a gift certificate from anywhere, but the service is only available in the Los Angeles area where I reside.
Having said that, any of my members on JulieAnneRhodes can provide this kind of help for their friends and family with minimal effort! All they have to do is double the servings of each recipe when they cook for their own household, keep half of each meal packaged at home, and deliver the rest to the new mom. It is so simple and (trust me), highly appreciated!
(to be continued) … Here is Part Two!
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