Chef was created by Adam Jacob as a tool for his consulting company, whose business model was to build end-to-end server/deployment tools.
셰프는 애덤 제콥(Adam Jacob)이 그의 컨설팅 기업을 위한 도구로서 만들었는데, 비즈니스 모델은 단대단(end-to-end) 서버/배치 도구를 빌드하는 것이었다.