Lockley's Chef's Professional Agency and Hospitality Management Search
Our business is the people who make your business work
Chefs' Professional Agency, the oldest hospitality recruiting firm in the United States, has been locating top talent for restaurants, hotels, clubs and resorts for over forty years.
We are the facilitators of the great restaurants in a fine city of great palates.
The geographic range of our activities over the past fifty extends from the culinary Mecca of San Francisco through the length and breadth of America to Europe, the Caribbean, Asia and Europe. Our clients include restaurants, hotels, clubs and resorts from Munich to Vietnam. We have brought some of the best known chefs to San Francisco, sent a Teppan chef to Tahiti and a Cajun chef to Beijing.
Chefs' Professional Agency resources the entire spectrum of venues. Our assignments range from the location of corporate level development commissaries to country inns .
We place talented professionals in many fields, including:
- Hotel and club chefs from executive chefs to chefs de cuisine, banquet chefs and pastry chefs.,
- Patissiers, Bakers and Chocolatiers for hospitality, wholesale and retail businesses.
- Culinary specialists with expertise in specific cuisines and food cultures.
- Fine dining chefs for restaurants from contemporary casual to five star locations.
- Commissary management chefs for catering and event operations, high end food service and production facilities
- A list of recognized culinarians with skill and knowledge to assist properties to develop or reposition their culinary strategies.
Lockley's Chefs' Professional Agency has been owned and operated by Jo Lynne Lockley for over twenty years. In it's second generation, Chefs' Professional has been in operation since 1960. It is the oldest recruiting firm specializing continually in chefs and culinary personnel in the United States. Our name is on our company. Our reputaion bears witness to our practices. At Chefs' Professional Agency we pride ourselves on being recruiters - not head hunters.