Shef in 8 slides
Sell home-cooked meals to neighbors - cooks pass food-safety certification and earn per dish in covered US cities.
- Home food marketplace
- Home food platforms
- Based in San Francisco, United States
- Vetted: providers are screened
What you do on Shef
How the money is made: selling products
- List your items
- A buyer orders
- Ship it
- Payout after delivery
Sell home-cooked meals to neighbors - cooks pass food-safety certification and earn per dish in covered US cities.
Work and topics
Good for
What Shef takes
Guess first: how much of every $100 you earn does Shef take?
Platform takes ~15% per sale
From the published fees, before payment-processing, currency or withdrawal charges. Work out your own amount →
How the money reaches you
1 way to withdraw
- Bank transfer
What people actually earn
Shef cooks have earned tens of millions of dollars since 2019, according to a USC Gould School of Law profile of co-founder Alvin Salehi.
Source: gould.usc.edu ↗How it scores
Strong on proof of earnings. Weaker on getting paid.
- Fees3.5
- Getting paid2.3
- Access2.5
- Track record3.0
- Proof of earnings4.0
- Verified earnings
- Clear fees
How much we know
We have 7 of the 17 things we track for every platform. Fees, payouts, join rules, countries and real earnings count most.
What we have
- What kind of platform it is
- Year founded
- Headquarters
- Fees
- Withdrawal methods
- Countries it accepts
- Real earnings figures
Still missing
- Plain-English overview
- Minimum payout
- How fast you get paid
- Payment protection
- Join requirements
- Review ratings
- Wikipedia or reference page
- Support channels
- Mobile apps
- Social accounts