Trust & safety
A cook in your kitchen for gatherings and busy weeks. You pay with MTN MoMo or Orange Money. Labor fee and market budget stay separate. We hold the total until shopping and service are done.
How money works
You pay once with MTN MoMo or Orange Money. Cheffar holds the booking total and opens it in three steps — shopping first, labor after the meal.
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You pay the full booking once. Cheffar holds the total. Neither host nor cook moves booking money off the platform.
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You approve the market list. Only the grocery budget opens so the cook can shop. The labor fee stays held.
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After the meal, the labor fee pays out to the cook on schedule. No cash collection at the door.
How money is labeled
Hosts in Cameroon already watch grocery cost at Marché Central and Sandaga. At checkout you see three clear lines: the cook's labor fee, the market budget for shopping, and a flat trust fee of 1 500 FCFA. The 4% support fee applies only to labor — never to tomatoes, fish, or palm oil.
Labor fee
What you pay the cook for time and craft
Market budget
Ingredient spend at local markets — passes through unchanged
Trust & hold
Flat fee to hold and release the booking payment
Sample checkout
What you see before you pay — CM
Held payment protects the money. Screening protects the stove. Every cook completes identity and health checks, a kitchen practical, and platform training. Executive Chefs and Cordon Bleus are judged on different craft.
Tier 1 · Executive
For intimate plated dinners and multi-course tables. We verify formal training or hotel and upscale restaurant work, then run a plating practical before the profile can take home bookings.
Tier 2 · Cordon Bleu
For Njangi, Dot, Sunday pots, and rooms full of people. We weight real gathering references and a traditional cook practical: authenticity, batch timing, and market budget sense over a degree alone.
Before you book
Answer
The market budget opens after you approve the shopping list. The labor fee pays out after the meal is complete on the booking. Both releases show on the booking trail.
For fees and timing, Pricing holds the clear numbers. Live booking issue? Contact support.
Trust that travels with the booking
Browse screened Executive Chefs and Cordon Bleus near you. Checkout holds the total. Shopping opens when you approve the list. Labor pays after service.
