The demanding environment and schedules have forced countless families to have their meals on the run or over pizza boxes or the like. This phenomenon is being changed by Pampered Chef providing people more time with those they love and bringing back family meal time.

Background

The Pampered Chef provides recipes and kitchen products for preparing delicious meals that can bring back the old tradition, families eating together at a dinner table. Back in 1980, Doris Christopher founded Pampered Chef targeted to the family dinner environment. Though not a chef herself, she was a working mother who recognized a necessity for notable working kitchen tools at a reasonable price. Incorporating her teaching qualifications, she showcased the Pampered Chef products with in-home cooking demonstrations.

Products

The Pampered Chef products include professional-quality kitchen tools such as:

Kitchenware – Such as measuring tools and peelers
Pampered Chef Cookware – Including skillets and stainless sauce pans, as well as serving ware and rice cookers
Bakeware – For delicious pastries, cakes and cookies!
Stoneware – High quality baking tools
Bamboo – Including cooking sets, tongs, bowls, etc.
Cutting Edge – The high-class professional-quality cutting ware that no kitchen should be without
Miscellaneous – Other products include outdoor serving sets and BBQ tools, and items great for entertaining guests such as serving platters, napkin rings, table placements, etc.

Distribution

Pampered Chef products offer a complete line for kitchen preparation and serving family and guests. The company chose individual direct sales as its distribution method. Pampered Chef consultants put on in-home cooking demonstrations also known as “Cooking Shows.” Pampered Chef claims that in excess of 1 million Cooking Shows are held each year, and more than 12 million customers have been served with their high-quality products.

Structure

Pampered Chef has corporate headquarters located in Addison, Illinois, with 750 corporate employees. Their distribution sales force is comprised of about 60,000 independent Pampered Chef consultants worldwide.

The Pampered Chef Consultants have eight levels to achieve their goals, going from direct sales to National Executive Directors. With no requirement to keep inventory in your house, Pampered Chef has made it easy to enter the business as an independent distributor. To support the independent distributors, the company has training such as web courses, tele-classes and local sales meetings with advanced sales reps and national events.

All Pampered Chef Consultants are given marketing tools including catalogs, brochures and a personalized website. Although you aren’t required to maintain inventory, you are required to purchase your own demonstration tool kit for a greatly reduced price of $155, which is a $570 value.

The Pampered Chef consultants are free to choose their own hours, full-time or part-time. There isn’t a quota from the company. You can decide your own goals. Income is commission based on a sliding scale of total sold per show. The minimum commission is 20% but goes to 25% for a show with sales more than $4,000. Average earnings are around $1,300 per month for performing just one show a week. As with any mlm, building your own team of distributors improves your income but you can also earn jewelry, free vacations and other products.

In addition to earning vacations, jewelry and other products, Pampered Chef Consultants have unlimited opportunity to earn money and make a great living. All the tools an individual would need to succeed as a Pampered Chef consultant are provided from the variety of help and training and the one-on-one time with other consultants and directors making this a terrific opportunity for a full-time or part-time career.