Real work. Clear pay. Professional behavior.

Prep Your Shift is for legitimate, paid culinary prep and kitchen-support work connected to food businesses, caterers, chefs, events, production kitchens, pop-ups, meal-prep operations, commissaries, and similar professional food operations.

Examples include prep cook work, cold prep, protein portioning, pastry prep, banquet prep, dish and utility support, pack-and-label work, kitchen loading, and catering-prep assistance.

General household chores, unpaid internships, vague 'come help out' requests, personal errands, and non-culinary gigs do not belong on this board.

V1 is for adults age 18 or older. Posters must have authority to request labor for the business, chef, event, or kitchen named in the listing. Workers must provide truthful contact information, experience, availability, and credentials.

TakeaChefHome may request additional verification before publishing a shift or allowing continued use of the marketplace.

A listing must state the hourly rate, role, date, expected start and end time, city and state, number of workers needed, and a useful description of the work.

Posters may not advertise one rate and attempt to lower it after a worker applies or is confirmed. Tips, parking reimbursement, meals, travel, bonuses, or other extras should be described separately from base pay.

Posters are responsible for complying with applicable minimum-wage, overtime, break, payroll, tax, worker-classification, licensing, and employment laws. The platform does not determine a worker's legal classification for the parties.

If a person is asked to perform productive prep work, that work must be paid as agreed and as required by law. 'Trial shifts' may not be used to obtain free labor.

Workers do not pay to apply for Prep Your Shift listings. Posters may never ask an applicant to send a deposit, gift card, application fee, background-check payment, equipment payment, or similar money in order to be considered for a shift.

Launch posting levels are Quick ($2), Standard ($7), and Priority ($12). A submitted shift is not automatically public. It enters review first and is published only after approval and any required activation step is completed.

Priority improves placement and review urgency; it does not guarantee that workers will apply or that a shift will be filled.

A worker application is a request to be considered. The shift poster must confirm the worker before the assignment is treated as booked.

Until a worker is confirmed, neither side should assume the shift is theirs. Exact worksite details may be held until confirmation for safety and privacy.

Workers must accurately represent their experience and certifications, arrive ready for the role they accepted, follow lawful food-safety and workplace instructions, respect the kitchen, and communicate immediately if an emergency affects attendance.

False credentials, theft, threats, harassment, deliberate food-safety violations, working while impaired, or repeated no-shows can result in removal or suspension from the marketplace.

Posters must provide a reasonably safe workplace, the tools or equipment they promised, clear supervision expectations, accurate shift information, and the agreed compensation.

A poster may not discriminate or harass, request illegal activity, conceal material hazards, move a worker into substantially different work without agreement, or use the marketplace to recruit for deceptive or fraudulent schemes.

If plans change, both sides should cancel as early as possible. Same-day cancellations and confirmed no-shows may be recorded on the account and reviewed before future marketplace access is allowed.

Repeated no-shows, repeated last-minute cancellations, or a pattern of posting shifts that are later abandoned may lead to reduced visibility, temporary restriction, or suspension.

Any cancellation pay owed to a worker is governed by the parties' agreement and applicable law unless an on-platform payment policy specifically states otherwise.

Prep Your Shift V1 does not hold or run payroll for worker wages. Unless a listing expressly says otherwise, the poster and confirmed worker arrange lawful payment directly and should agree on method and timing before work begins.

Future on-platform payment, completion-fee, escrow, payroll, or payout features may add separate terms that are shown before a user accepts them.

Public listings show city/state-level location rather than the exact kitchen or residence address. Users should not post Social Security numbers, banking credentials, passwords, government IDs, or other sensitive information in public listing text.

If a situation feels unsafe, leave the situation when reasonably possible, contact emergency services when appropriate, and report the account or listing to TakeaChefHome.

TakeaChefHome may review, edit, pause, decline, expire, or remove listings that violate these rules or create safety, fraud, legal, or quality concerns. Accounts may be restricted while a report is reviewed.

Users should preserve relevant messages, shift details, receipts, time records, and payment records when reporting a dispute. TakeaChefHome may help document or route a dispute but does not guarantee recovery of wages, damages, or losses between users.