Published prices
What a private chef costs in Maui, answered in numbers.
The direct answer, first: a private chef dinner in Maui costs $150–$250 a guest, groceries included, plus 20% service and Hawaiʻi GET up to 4.7120% on their own lines. Everything below is the detail behind that sentence.
The published bands
- Signature dinner: $150–$250 a guest, groceries inside the band
- Premium menu: $190–$275 a guest
- Chef’s table: $275–$400+ a guest
- Stay Chef: from $1,050 a day plus groceries at cost
- Date night for two: from $500
Worked math on published rates
Two guests run $300–$500; four guests $600–$1,000; eight $1,200–$2,000; twelve $1,800–$3,000 — pure multiplication on the published band, each cell individually defensible. Then the fee stack: 20% service and GET on their own lines, never blended.
What moves the number
- Guest count — the per-guest line scales linearly
- Menu tier — premium proteins and coursing move you up the band
- Hawaiʻi grocery prices — roughly 31–53% above the mainland, visible in receipts
- Date — holiday weeks carry published surcharges, never invented ones
- Crew — staffing hourlys $55/$75 are separate, itemized lines
The comparison that matters
Maui’s own market: marketplaces book $119–$171 a guest; local independents publish $100–$350 depending on format; resort private dining runs higher with minimums. Our band sits deliberately across the credible middle and the premium top — and unlike most of the market, it is published.
Questions, answered
It covers the food and the chef’s dinner service, groceries included. Staffing, travel where it applies, the bar cart, 20% service, and GET are separate itemized lines in the written quote — which is the confirmed total.
Groceries run 31–53% above mainland prices and the island’s labor and logistics follow. The published band builds that in rather than surprising you with it.
Holiday surcharges are published ahead of the season on the peak-calendar page — the quote never invents one.
Keep reading
- pricing What a Maui week costs, in writing.
- pricing What a Stay Chef week costs, worked out.
- pricing The fee stack, line by line.
- pricing Travel fees, zone by zone, before you ask.
- pricing The peak calendar: when Maui books, and how it prices.
- pricing Run your own numbers.
- guide The villa versus the reservation, honestly compared.
- guide Private versus personal chef — the definitions, then the booking.
Get a written quote
The button is not “Book now.” You tell us the table; we send a written quote — and that quote is the confirmed total.