A personal chef or small catering business is selling an experience that's hard to picture from a phone call alone, which is why a website that actually shows the food and explains how booking works tends to matter more here than a generic "premium catering services" page. Someone looking into a private chef for a dinner party or an event wants to know your style of food, what an actual booking involves, and whether you can accommodate the event they have in mind.
Describing your business to Nova, for example "a personal chef business specializing in in-home dinner parties and small event catering, with a menu style description, past events, and an inquiry form," produces a site structured around that description, with a live preview before you publish to a free getnova.pro subdomain, and there's no account needed to build or look at it first. Because the menu style and services reflect your actual cooking rather than a generic "fine dining experience" template, the draft starts closer to something that shows what a client would actually be booking.
It's worth being direct about scope. Nova builds the showcase and inquiry site itself, but it isn't a booking, deposit, or menu-planning tool. Most chefs and caterers handle contracts, deposits, and detailed menu planning through direct conversation or a separate tool once an inquiry turns into a real booking, and the Nova-built site's job is to get that first inquiry, not manage the event logistics that follow. If you handle dietary restrictions or specific cuisines well, naming that specifically tends to matter more to a prospective client than a broad claim of doing "all types of cuisine."
Sample menus tend to help a lot, since they give a prospective client something concrete to react to. Pricing varies more by event, so many chefs quote after learning event details rather than listing a fixed price.
Yes, describe what you're genuinely equipped to handle, vegetarian, gluten-free, kosher, and Nova will include that as part of the site instead of a vague claim of accommodating everything.
No, Nova builds the site and inquiry form. Contracts, deposits, and detailed event planning happen through your own process once someone reaches out.
Describe your chef or catering business to Nova and see a site built around your actual food and events.