Kitchen staff on secondment for restaurants and hotels in Europe

The right person.
The right kitchen.
Without friction.

Stafflab is a European kitchen staffing agency. We second pre-vetted chefs, sous-chefs, line cooks and kitchen helpers to restaurants and hotels in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The client signs one service agreement and receives one all-in hourly invoice at 0 % VAT (EU reverse charge).

Choose your market What is Stafflab
1–3 weeks
from brief to the team in the kitchen
Contracts from 3 months
same person for the whole period, replacement if the fit is wrong
0 % VAT
on the invoice, EU reverse charge (art. 44 EU VAT Directive)

Choose your market.

Netherlands

Horecapersoneel in Nederland

Chefs, sous-chefs, line cooks and kitchen helpers on secondment to Dutch restaurants and hotels.

Open NL → Belgium (Dutch)

Keukenpersoneel in België

Detachering met A1 + Limosa, EU-factuur met verlegde btw (0 %).

Open BE / NL → Belgium (French)

Personnel de cuisine en Belgique

Détachement UE avec A1 + Limosa, facture UE en autoliquidation de TVA (0 %).

Open BE / FR →
Luxembourg (French / German)

Personnel horeca / Gastronomiepersonal

EU detachment with A1 + ITM declaration + badge social, EU invoice with 0 % VAT (reverse-charge). From €35/h all-in.

Français → Deutsch →
Sweden

Kockar och köksbiträden i Sverige

Scandinavia is operated by stafflab.se. Same group, separate operation.

Open SE → Denmark

Kokke og køkkenpersonale i Danmark

Scandinavia is operated by stafflab.se. Same group, separate operation.

Open DK → Norway

Kokker og kjøkkenpersonale i Norge

Scandinavia is operated by stafflab.se. Same group, separate operation.

Open NO →

What is Stafflab?

Stafflab is a European kitchen staffing agency. We are the legal employer of record for every assignment — the client signs one EU service agreement and never becomes the employer. Workers remain under Stafflab’s social-security coverage via an A1 certificate from their home country.

We second four kitchen roles: kitchen helper (dishwasher / commis / plongeur / Küchenhilfe), line cook (kok / cuisinier / Koch), sous-chef and head chef. Rates are all-in hourly, invoiced at 0 % VAT (EU reverse charge): €32–€52/hour in Belgium and the Netherlands, €35–€58/hour in Luxembourg.

Standard flow: you send a brief; Stafflab returns 2 to 3 candidate profiles within one working day; we file A1 and the host-country posting notification (Limosa for Belgium, WagwEU for the Netherlands, ITM for Luxembourg); the worker starts within 1 to 3 weeks. Minimum assignment is 3 months. Replacement within 10 working days if the fit is wrong.

Waiters and service staff are offered only as an add-on to clients who already run a Stafflab kitchen team. Scandinavian clients (Sweden, Denmark, Norway) are served by the sister operation at stafflab.se.

Need kitchen staff for your restaurant?

Tell us the role, the city and the start date. We respond within one working day with 2 to 3 candidate profiles for your market.