Cameroon
Homes from Douala to Kribi
About Cheffar
A cook in your kitchen for gatherings and busy weeks
Hosting at home, cooked the way we gather. And for the weeks you cannot carry the stove alone. Njangi, Dot, meal prep, or a quiet plated dinner. The meal still tastes like yours.
The quiet theft
Love given.
Presence lost.
The person who loved the gathering most spent the morning at market and the afternoon at the stove.
Guests arrived. Laughter filled the room. Plates went round — and the host barely tasted the meal, barely heard the jokes, barely appeared in the photographs.
Delivery solved dinner at the gate. Restaurants solved evenings out. Neither kept a host at their own table.
That gap is where Cheffar starts.
Our north star
Hosting at home,cooked the way we gather.
Not delivery at the gate. Not a restaurant under your roof. You host. They cook. Your house still feels like yours, and your people still feel chosen.
Our story
Why Cheffar exists
Agbor Franklen
Founder, Cheffar
Tech Founder / CEO, Zoraar
Agbor Franklen grew up understanding what an African table actually means. Food was never a transaction. It was how elders were honored, how friends were kept close, how a household proved — without speeches — that you belonged inside it.
Again and again he watched the same quiet theft: the host who spent the day at market and stove so everyone else could feast… then barely tasted the meal, barely heard the jokes, barely appeared in the photographs. Love given. Presence lost.
Building technology at Zoraar showed him how digital tools move goods and services across Africa. What was still missing was hospitality itself: the sacred act of inviting someone into your kitchen for Njangi nights, Dot mornings, Sunday pots, and intimate dinners that still taste like home.
Delivery apps solved the plate at the gate. Restaurant culture solved evenings out. Neither protected the feeling of opening your own door. Cheffar was founded to do that: bring a trusted cook into the house, so the host can stay with their people and still feed them the way they meant to.
That is the emotional root of the company. Not “another marketplace.” A belief that the person who loves the gathering most deserves to live inside it too.
Belonging
Food is how we say you matter here
Before speeches, before gifts, before anyone sits, the smell from the kitchen tells the story of the day. That is not “catering.” That is how family and friendship recognize each other.
Hands
Someone still chooses every ingredient for you
The market is personal. Peppers by smell. Fish by touch. A cook who knows your occasion shops with that day in mind, so the meal tastes like care, not convenience.
Home
The kitchen is where trust lives
Inviting a cook into your house is never small. It means letting someone into the room where family is fed. That intimacy is why Cheffar treats every booking as a relationship, not a delivery order.
The hands behind the meal
Two ways of loving a table
Some days ask for quiet courses. Others ask for pots that feed a room. Both are craft. Both are care. Apply.
Executive Chef
For evenings that feel like a letter
When the meal itself is the message: anniversary light, a proposal, a private thank-you. Courses arrive like chapters. The room stays soft.
Cordon Bleu
For rooms that feel like home
When love means volume and familiarity: trays that feed a meeting, ceremonies that feed a village of cousins, Sunday pots that feed the week ahead.
You pay once. We hold funds until the meal is done — plain words for a sacred transaction at home.
Trust & safetyWhere tables are opening
Homes across Africa
Same promise in every city we serve: a cook for the gathering, so the host can stay with the people who walked in the door. See occasions.
Nigeria
Homes from Lagos to Enugu
From the table
Questions people ask from the heart
Answer
No. Delivery ends at the gate. Cheffar puts a cook in your kitchen for a ceremony, a busy week, or a plated dinner you do not have time to make yourself.
Fees, payment timing, and vetting details live on Pricing and Trust & safety.
You host. They cook.
Stay at your table. We will handle the kitchen.
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