We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Chef Matty McFleen. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Chef Matty below.

Alright, Chef Matty thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Has Covid resulted in any major changes to your business model?

While the outbreak of Covid stopped business for many Industries, It created a boom for mine. When everything was shutting down I started to come up with innovative ways to perform my job in order to keep my company alive and thriving while everything around me was shutting down. This was a challenge, especially because of food shortage in the beginning while the world was waiting in lines for hours just to get toilet paper. People couldn’t sit down in a restaurant and most didn’t even wanna set foot in public to go to the store, scared they would be exposed. This is when I decided now is my time to push the envelope and thrive when most people didn’t think it was possible.

Chef Matty, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

My name is Chef Matty McFleen. I specialize in high end Restaurant quality food for private events and parties. We offer Chef services for small dinners, large Celebra-tions, Corporate Events, you name it we Cook for it! I wanted to connect with people I was feeding in the Restaurant business on a more personal/intimate level! Thats when I decided I wanted to be a Private Chef. The atmosphere of cook-ing for a private party with Menus and meals I designed and cooked myself versus cooking the same thing everyday for people I never got to see working in a Restaurant! Theres something special about being invited into someones private home cooking for them from scratched with just the idea of what sounds good to them at that time! Cooking is art you get to taste…doesn’t get better than that! I work with each of my clients to build a custom menu that is built to the theme of the event or the taste of your palette. I do all the shopping, all the prepping, the presentation and the best part all the cleaning. Get all the perks of cooking from home, at home, with a Restaurant style taste but zero work, zero hassle and zero clean up.

We’d love to hear a story of resilience from your journey.

Covid forced me to get creative in order to stay open during a time when my industry was shutting down. I offered to do the dirty work people didn’t want to do during covid. I woke up early, I suited up to protect myself from being exposed to covid. I stood in long lines at multiple grocery stores for hours sometimes just to get all the food I needed. I offered meal prep plans for people during this time. I did all the cooking at home in the safety of my own kitchen where I always took the extra precautions during this time to insure my clients were all getting a home cooked meal safely with out all the hassle covid created for many people during this time. I cooked for families of parents having to work from home and now home school their children at the same time, this allowed them one less thing to do in the chaos covid created especially for people who had full time careers and kids to juggle.

Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?

Social media is a big one, but also word of mouth. Think about it, at least for one person who tasted my food and enjoyed my services, they will at least tell 2-3 of their friends about their experience with my services. Its like a wildfire. The word spreads quickly.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.chefmattymcfleen.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chefmattymcfleen/
• Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/crafted-kravings-la-quinta?utm_campaign=www_business_share_popup&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=(direct)

Image Credits
LuxeLove Photo+Film