What Culinary Staffing Service does

Culinary Staffing Service (legal entity Culinary Services of America, Inc.) is a private, women-owned W-2 temporary staffing firm founded in 1999 and headquartered at 6404 Wilshire Blvd in Los Angeles. The company supplies culinary, hospitality, food production, and dietary professionals to clients across seven verticals: food production and manufacturing, restaurants/bars/lounges, hospitality (hotels, resorts, country clubs, caterers), senior living, healthcare, colleges and universities, and entertainment venues. Disclosed enterprise clients include Cedars Sinai, Martin Luther King Hospital, Torrance Memorial, the Los Angeles Dodgers, City National Grove of Anaheim, and Blue Can Water, alongside a long tail of SMB restaurant and catering accounts. The company has 251-500 employees and serves California (Los Angeles and Bay Area), Nevada (Las Vegas), and Washington (Seattle).

The company's primary product is its W-2 temporary staffing service, delivered through dedicated staffing managers who serve as the single point of contact for both clients and field employees. This is augmented by GoLive!, a proprietary two-sided platform consisting of the GoLive! Pro client-facing app (for staff requests, upfront cost visibility, scheduling, and approvals) and the GoLive! employee-facing portal (for shift management). The app is published on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. Revenue is generated through markup on worker wages paid by client businesses, with the company assuming responsibility for hiring, payroll, compliance, insurance, and HR administration. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed.

The go-to-market motion combines enterprise field sales with event-driven demand capture around seasonal peaks (conventions, football season, holidays, graduations) and large venues. Marketing channels include a blog, organic social (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook), and the Culinary Staffing Podcast. Strategic partnerships extend the offering: The CORE bundles HR, insurance, payroll, and workers' compensation services, while Cal Savers provides a retirement savings program for W-2 workers. The company has expanded into three new markets since April 2024 and was designated a Super Bowl LVI Business Connect supplier in 2021. No external funding, M&A activity, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed.

Name

Culinary Staffing Service

Legal name

Culinary Services of America, Inc.

Website

https://culinarystaffing.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Culinary Staffing Service is a private, women-owned W-2 temporary staffing firm founded in 1999 that supplies culinary, hospitality, healthcare, and food production workers to hospitals, hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues, and manufacturers across California, Nevada, and Washington.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospitality Staffing Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (722310)

SIC

Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)

akta.pro primary industry

Event Culinary Staffing & Back-of-House Services (Chefs, Servers, Bartenders) (THAHAKAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Private Chef & In-Home Dining Services (HSACAGAE)

Keywords

• Temporary staffing services
• Hospitality staffing
• Culinary recruitment
• Workforce solutions
• Event staffing

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Temporary Staffing Services: Provides W-2 temporary staffing solutions to hospitality, healthcare, food production, and entertainment industries. Revenue generated through markup on worker wages paid by client businesses. Full-service model handles hiring, payroll, compliance, insurance, and HR.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Culinary Staffing Service is a W-2 temporary staffing firm that supplies pre-qualified culinary, hospitality, food production, healthcare, and entertainment professionals to client businesses across California, Nevada, and Washington. The full-service model handles hiring, payroll, workers' compensation, insurance, HR, and compliance on behalf of clients, with proprietary GoLive! Pro technology enabling rapid staff requests, scheduling, and shift management supported by dedicated staffing managers.

Product overview

Culinary Staffing Service operates as a single unified offering — W-2 temporary staffing services — supported by its proprietary technology platform, GoLive!. GoLive! serves as both a client-facing app (GoLive! Pro) for placing staffing orders, viewing costs, and managing approvals, and as an employee-facing portal (GoLive! Login) for workers to manage shifts and schedules. The company provides hospitality and food service professionals to venues across California, Nevada, and Washington, covering industries such as restaurants, hotels, healthcare, senior living, food production, entertainment, and colleges/universities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GoLive! Pro: Hospitality staffing app designed to simplify scheduling, streamline approvals, and manage shifts for clients.

Products and services

• W-2 Temporary Staffing Services Core W-2 temporary staffing offering that supplies pre-qualified culinary, hospitality, food production, healthcare dietary, entertainment, senior living, and college food-service professionals to client businesses. The full-service model handles hiring, payroll, workers' compensation, insurance, HR, and compliance on the client's behalf, with dedicated staffing managers and rapid GoLive! Pro app-based shift requests.
• GoLive! Pro Staffing App Proprietary mobile app and web portal that enables Hospitality and food-service clients to submit staffing requests in seconds, see costs upfront, manage shifts and approvals, and access dedicated staffing-manager support, paired with an employee-facing GoLive! login portal for workers to manage shifts and assignments.

Named customers10 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• PATH (Making it Home)minorOthers · 22 September 2021Charitable partnership with PATH, an organization focused on making it home. Aligns with company's community engagement values.
• Cal SaverscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 5 April 2021Partnership with Cal Savers retirement savings program to help employees save for retirement. The program provides financial security for workers who might not otherwise have a retirement plan. Featured in LA Times coverage.
• Joe Collins Community Hiring EventminorOthersCommunity hiring event partnership for collecting resumes and conducting on-the-spot hiring in partnership with congressional candidate Joe Collins' community event.
• The CORE (Insurance/HR Services)coreOthersPartnership providing bundled HR, insurance, payroll, worker's compensation, and compliance services for hospitality clients. Offers custom menu of options tailored to client needs.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Hospitality Staffing Solutions: Specialist staffing provider focused on hospitality, healthcare food service, and banquet/catering roles — directly comparable mix of healthcare, hospitality, and event-driven temporary demand.
• Qwick: On-demand hospitality staffing platform connecting food and beverage businesses with vetted servers, bartenders and cooks — same target verticals (restaurants, hotels, catering) with a tech-led, gig-style delivery model that competes with Culinary Staffing's GoLive! Pro.
• Gecko Hospitality: Hospitality industry recruiting and staffing firm focused on restaurants, hotels, and food service management roles — comparable vertical specialization, although more weighted toward direct-hire/permanent placement.
• LGC Hospitality: Hospitality and culinary-focused staffing firm providing temporary and permanent restaurant, hotel, and event talent — overlapping directly in customer segments (restaurants, hotels, venues) and service model (W-2 temporary staffing).
• Instawork: Digital marketplace for hospitality, food service, and warehouse staffing — competing directly for restaurant and event temporary labor with a tech-forward platform and significant VC backing.

Broad incumbents

• Sodexo: Global food services and facilities management company serving hospitals, universities, senior living, and corporate accounts — overlapping verticals (Healthcare, Colleges, Senior Living) that Culinary Staffing serves via staffing.
• Kelly Services: Diversified staffing firm with hospitality and event staffing capabilities under its specialty workforce segment — relevant comparable for unit economics and back-office W-2 staffing processes.
• Adecco Group: Largest global staffing firm with hospitality, events, and food service vertical coverage — broad multi-country platform with comparable culinary/event clientele but at vastly larger scale.
• ManpowerGroup: Global staffing leader with a dedicated hospitality and food service practice — competes at the national-contract level where Culinary Staffing's regional footprint cannot reach.
• Aramark: Contract food service and hospitality solutions provider for sports, entertainment, healthcare, and higher-education venues — adjacent but broader model: in-house food service management rather than pure staff augmentation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/culinarystaffing
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/culinarystaffing
• Instagraminstagram.com/culinarystaffing
• Xx.com/culinarystaffla

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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