Common questions about how PASS works for hospitality professionals.
PASS is the verified network for hospitality professionals. You build a verified Chef-ID — your real, confirmed work history — get discovered by employers, and compete in 60-second cook-offs. It's identity, hiring and cook-offs in one place.
Ask an authority who was there — your head chef, manager, or the owner of the venue — to confirm the job. Only a verified authority at that workplace can make a record Verified; coworkers can add notes about working with you, but the green tick always comes from the person who ran the kitchen. Open 'Get verified', add where you worked, and send the request.
Your Chef-ID is your permanent, verified professional identity on PASS — the confirmed roles, kitchens and career history that you keep for life and can share with employers.
Cook-offs are friendly head-to-head cooking challenges. Two chefs each upload a 60-second clip of the same dish, both clips publish together, and the community votes over 48 hours on who nailed it. Wins show on your profile.
Set yourself 'open to work' and verified employers can find you in search and reach out. When you're hired and both you and the employer confirm it, it becomes a verified employment record on your Chef-ID.
Yes — joining PASS, building your Chef-ID, getting verified, joining cook-offs and being discoverable are free for chefs. Employers may pay to contact and hire candidates.
Use the Remind button, or send your request directly via WhatsApp or SMS with the share link. If your old head chef has moved on, any current verified authority at that venue — the manager or owner — can confirm the record instead.
When a chef asks you to confirm a job, you get a request in your verification inbox. Open it, check the details, and approve. If you're a PASS-approved verifier for that workplace your confirmation makes the record Verified; otherwise it's recorded as a provisional confirmation until an approved verifier or the PASS team reviews it. The PASS team approves every verifier.
You control what's public. Your verified history is yours; you choose whether to share your career publicly. Employers see your verified profile when you're open to work, and you can export or delete your data anytime.
PASS works in 18 languages, and this assistant can answer you in your own language.
Open your profile, go to privacy settings, and choose to delete your account — this erases your personal data and removes your profile. You can export your data first if you'd like a copy.
For anything account-specific — a payment, a suspended account, a dispute or a bug — email hi@getonpass.com and a person will help you.