Specialist Recruitment for Performance Chefs, Private Chefs & Sports Nutrition Staff
Connecting world-class performance chefs, private chefs, personal chefs and sports nutrition specialists with elite athletes, professional sports teams, and high-performance households - across the UK, Europe, North America, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
We are not a generalist recruitment agency. We are performance nutritionists who built a recruitment agency because we knew exactly what elite athletes needed from a performance chef, a private chef, or a personal chef, and we couldn't find anyone else who did.
Global
UK | Europe | North America | UAE Saudi Arabia
40+
years combined Founder experience in elite Performance Nutrition
NDAs
Signed on every placement. Total discretion, always.
3 services
Recruitment | Education Consultancy
Who we work with
Whether You're an Athlete, a Performer, a HNW Executive, or Elite Organisation - if Performance and Nutrition are important to you let’s chat.
Your time and energy are your most valuable assets. Stop spending them on recruitment. We find, vet, and place the right performance chef, private chef or personal chef for your life and your goals - so every meal works as hard as you do.
Elite Athletes & Households
Want to move from private chef or personal chef work into elite sport? Our network connects exceptional chefs with performance roles - and our education programme gives you the performance nutrition knowledge to thrive at the highest level.
Chefs
Elite Teams, Clubs and Organisations
From a single senior hire to a full catering provision, we partner with clubs, academies, and federations to build staffing solutions that perform under pressure.
Our Services
Our three services were shaped by decades of experience working inside professional sport as Performance Nutritionists. Sitting at the heart of elite teams and athlete programmes, we developed a deep understanding of what genuine performance support looks like - and what it takes to deliver it consistently. Recruitment, Education, and Consultancy are the natural result of that experience: three services built not from the outside looking in, but from years of living the demands ourselves and identifying the wider industry needs.
Specialist recruitment of performance chefs, private chefs and personal chefs for elite athletes, private households, professional sports clubs and organisations - worldwide.
Industry-leading performance nutrition education - for chefs who want to work at the elite level, and for athletes, parents, and practitioners who want to understand it.
Retained strategic support for organisations and larger projects. We review, benchmark, and build performance catering and staffing solutions that hold up under real-world pressure.
Why We Built Haute Performance
For years, working as professional nutritionists at the sharp end of elite sport, we faced the same problem: finding high-quality, trusted performance chefs - private chefs and personal chefs with genuine performance nutrition expertise - outside our own small circle was nearly impossible.
The agencies that existed were generalist, either placing within hospitality or staffing UHNW households. They could place a private chef or a personal chef. They could not place a performance chef - someone who understood periodisation, recovery nutrition, body composition, and the weight of cooking for an athlete whose entire career depended on every meal.
So we built Haute Performance to solve it - and held it to the standard we had always demanded from the professionals we worked alongside.
Today, we are the trusted recruitment, education, and consultancy partner for the world's leading athletes, clubs, and high-performance households - operating globally, and built on three principles that have never changed:
QUALITY
INTEGRITY
DISCRETION
Placing Elite Performance Chefs Worldwide
Haute Performance operates a truly international network. We place world-class performance chefs, private chefs and personal chefs wherever in the world our clients compete and live - from London to Los Angeles, Dubai to Melbourne, and everywhere in between.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A Performance Chef is a culinary professional who specialises in preparing food specifically to support athletic or physical performance. Unlike a Private Chef who focuses on taste and hospitality, a Performance Chef works collaboratively with an athlete's Performance Nutritionist/Dietitian or wider support team to understand the athlete’s macronutrient and micronutrient targets, recovery protocols, periodisation, and dietary restrictions - and translate these targets into real food.
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Most chef recruitment agencies place hospitality professionals or staff high net worth households. We recruit specifically for performance nutrition roles and have over 40 years of combined expertise in the field ourselves. We understand the brief from the inside - which means we screen and assess candidates in ways a generalist agency simply cannot.
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The timeline depends on the complexity of the role and the specific requirements of the brief. Once we have a detailed brief we can advise on how long the recruitment process will take.
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Completely. All enquiries are treated with absolute discretion from the first conversation. Every candidate we work with signs a non-disclosure agreement. We do not discuss our clients publicly or reference them in any marketing materials under any circumstances.
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Increasingly, yes. Alongside performance chef recruitment, we recruit across the wider Sports Science and Sports Medicine (SSSM) space - including performance nutritionists, dietitians, and specialist support staff. If your need extends beyond a chef, we'd encourage you to get in touch and talk it through.
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Honest, unhurried, and built around you rather than a placement fee.
We are performance nutritionists first and recruiters second. That means when you come to us with a brief, we're not thinking about how quickly we can fill a role - we're thinking about whether we're placing the right person in the right environment for the long term. We ask more questions than most agencies. We push back if something doesn't feel right. And we'll tell you honestly if what you're looking for doesn't exist, rather than send you candidates who don't fit just to keep the process moving.
Most of our client relationships don't start and end with a single placement. We become a trusted part of the support structure around an athlete or organisation - often working with the same clients across years, not just weeks. That continuity matters to us. It means every decision we make is about getting it right, not getting it done.
There's no hard sell here. If we're the right fit for what you need, that will become clear quickly. If we're not, we'll tell you that too.