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Sam The Cooking Guy Booking Agency Profile

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Sam Zien, better known as Sam the Cooking Guy, is a television cook and cookbook author that is based in San Diego, California. Zien started his career almost as a traveling host after a life-changing trip to Tokyo but that career stopped after the September 11 attacks. After that, Zien changed his mindset and decided that simplifying cooking was something that needed to be shown in television and thus, he became known as Sam the Cooking Guy. Zien then recorded a demo and this became known as the 2 minute cooking segment, “Sam the Cooking Guy”. From there, the show grew, it then became a regular half hour show and it has gone on win 15 Emmys and became a series on Discovery’s Health channel. Since then, Zien has released three cook books and has also released “The Sam Livecast”, which is an internet cooking show. Both of Zien’s shows are featured in his home where he cooks alongside his family and dogs..

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CTI can give you the accurate Sam The Cooking Guy booking price once we submit your event details to their camp. "How much does it cost to book Sam The Cooking Guy for an event?" is a frequent question we get. The final Sam The Cooking Guy booking price is contingent on many variables and the booking fee we may show is based on a range derived from our past experience with what will Sam The Cooking Guy charge for an event. An example fee to book Sam The Cooking Guy is in the starting range of $15,000-$24,999. However, any recent popularity change would cause a price fluctuation well beyond this example. Also, their speaking fee might be different than the fee shown for the cost to perform or to just appear. Popularity, career stage, along with current demand will cause fluctuations in their speaking price as well. The final booking price may be more than what is shown, but you should at least have a budget within that range for them to consider an appearance, performance or speaking engagement.
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There is low probability to book Sam The Cooking Guy for a party with anything substantially less than the published booking cost price range. We will negotiate with the Sam The Cooking Guy agent on your behalf if your funding is in place. By not having funding ready then it will more difficult to book Sam The Cooking Guy, because they get many offers to work events that are at or above asking price. It is also important to consider the travel costs when researching the Sam The Cooking Guy booking fee, as additional expenses like this, as well as an entourage of staff and equipment, are not necessarily built-in to the booking fee range shown. If your budget does not factor that in, then there is no benefit for them to want to be hired. We do not personally speak for Sam The Cooking Guy, but in our experience in booking talent for over 25 years, this is generally the outcome of inadequate funding.
Type
Speaker
Speaking Topic
Chefs
Range
Chefs, Chefs-With Cookbook, Male, Age Group-18-30's
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