Atlanta Personal Chef Service Welcomes Chef Mayhayla to the Team!

We are excited to introduce our newest Chef, Mayhayla, to the team.  She’s been cooking in Atlanta for over 9 years, and now she’s joining our team as a personal chef, cooking dinners during the work-week for our clients around the city.  Read more about Mayhayla below: 

From a young age, Mayhayla had a passion for cooking. Growing up, she would often cook dinner for her family and test out new recipes on them. She knew she wanted to be a chef from childhood.

Mayhayla graduated in 2005 from the Art Institute of Atlanta with an Associate degree in the culinary arts. The Associate Degree program covers skills such as knife handling, food safety and sanitation, international cuisines, nutrition, and food industry management. While receiving basic overall culinary training and cooking techniques, Mayhayla completed her degree with a focus in Nutrition.

Mayhayla launched her culinary career at the Westin Atlanta Hotel full-service restaurant Palio. While there, she gained experience in sautéing, grilling, pastries, and banquet parties. She later left the kitchen to become a shift manager in the front of the house. She loved the customer service side of the business and was good at it too.

In 2009, Mayhayla become the general manager at Boneheads in the Peachtree Battle Shopping Center, where she worked with ordering and receiving product, profit and loss, marketing, and advertising. Mayhayla’s responsibilities included overseeing the chefs and training new chefs as they joined the team.

With Mayhayla’s passion for food, culinary knowledge, chef experience, and food industry management experience, she has the unique set of skills it takes to be a great personal chef. She loves to prepare fresh salads with homemade dressings, grilling of any kind, and preparing wild game.

In her free time she loves gardening, canning, pickling and reading.

Read more about our team at Atlanta Personal Chef Service here!