Private meals aren't necessarily cheap to begin with. According to Fash, private chefs typically earn $30-$40 per hour, or up to $100 per dinner attendee if you divide it by person, though this depends on the foods being served. Once you add celebrity status into the mix(ing bowl), these prices only increase. When celebrities hire private chefs, they typically afford the chef no limit on grocery expenditures, per Health, and their annual income often sits around $150,000. Ultimately, then, it's only celebrities who can afford to hire celebrity chefs due to a large gap between what an everyday person could spend and what a celebrity could spend on a chef.
An online database called the Celebrity Chef Network tracks how much money each celeb chef charges for a meal/appearance. According to this database, Alex Guarnaschelli charges between $20,000-$50,000, while Bobby Flay charges $100,000+. These are some of the biggest names Food Network has produced over the years, and it's safe to say that Guarnaschelli could even raise her rate to be more on par with Flay's.
Some chefs don't charge as much, though. A lot of chefs in the database, especially those who may not have a television show but are still huge in the culinary world, only charge around $10,000 per meal/appearance. This applies to big chefs like Michael Voltaggio, Justin Warner, Katsuya Fukushima, Eddie Jackson, and more.
So, how much would you be willing to spend on a meal prepared by a celebrity chef?
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