LEGAL

Chef Agreement.

Last updated: July 20, 2026

This Chef Agreement ("Agreement") is between the chef, caterer, or food business accepting it ("Chef Partner", "you") and Ivacay LLC, doing business as PL8S ("PL8S", "we", "us"). It governs your sale of food through the PL8S platform (the "Platform") and supplements the Terms of Service, which also apply to you. If this Agreement conflicts with the Terms of Service, this Agreement controls for Chef Partners.

1. Independent Contractor Status

You are an independent business, not an employee, agent, joint venturer, or partner of PL8S. Nothing in this Agreement creates an employment relationship. You control your own menu, portions, schedule, kitchen, methods, and — subject to the pricing structure disclosed at onboarding — your prices.

You are solely responsible for your own taxes, including income and self-employment taxes. Where required, PL8S (or its payment processor) will issue you an IRS Form 1099 at launch of paid operations.

2. Permits, Licenses, and Compliance

You represent and warrant that, at all times while selling on the Platform, you:

hold all permits, licenses, and registrations required for your food business in your jurisdiction — in California this may include a Microenterprise Home Kitchen Operation (MEHKO) permit or a cottage food registration, which are authorized county by county;
will provide proof of permits or licensure promptly upon PL8S's request;
will notify PL8S immediately if any required permit or license lapses, is suspended, or is revoked, and will stop selling on the Platform until it is restored; and
comply with all applicable laws, including food-safety, health, hygiene, labeling, advertising, and tax laws.

PL8S may, in its sole discretion, request verification and may suspend or remove any Chef Partner or listing at any time. PL8S has no obligation to verify, inspect, audit, or monitor your kitchen, permits, or food, and does not undertake any duty to do so.

3. Food Safety and Disclosure

You are solely responsible for:

the safe preparation, handling, packaging, and holding of all food you sell, including maintaining safe temperatures through pickup;
accurately describing every dish, including complete and truthful ingredient and allergen disclosure;
responding promptly and truthfully to customer questions about ingredients and allergens; and
using only photos and descriptions that truthfully represent your food.

4. Insurance (Required)

You must maintain, at your own expense and at all times while selling on the Platform, commercial general liability insurance — including products and completed-operations coverage — with limits of not less than $1,000,000 per occurrence and $2,000,000 in the aggregate, issued by an insurer authorized to do business in California.

Additional insured. The policy must name "Ivacay LLC, d/b/a PL8S" as an additional insured.
Proof of coverage. Before your storefront is activated, and upon each policy renewal, you must provide a current Certificate of Insurance (COI) evidencing this coverage and the additional-insured endorsement.
Lapse notification. You must notify PL8S within five (5) days if your coverage lapses, is cancelled, or materially changes. PL8S may suspend your storefront immediately upon any lapse in required coverage.
No substitute for indemnity. Maintaining insurance does not limit or replace your indemnification obligations under Section 8.

PL8S may review COIs for completeness, but PL8S does not underwrite, guarantee, or verify the sufficiency of any policy, and does not undertake any duty to do so.

Coverage meeting these requirements is available through the Company's designated insurance partner program; use of the partner program is optional, and Chefs may obtain qualifying coverage from any licensed insurer.

5. Selling on the Platform

Drops. You set your dish, portion count, price, and pickup window for each drop. You agree to honor the drops you post and fulfill every reserved order, or promptly cancel with notice so customers are refunded.
Pickup. You confirm each order at pickup by scanning the customer's QR code through the Platform.
Direct contract. Each sale is a contract between you and the customer. PL8S is not a party to it and acts only as your limited payment collection agent for accepting and remitting customer payments.
Off-platform circumvention. You agree not to divert customers who found you on the Platform to transact off-platform in order to avoid platform fees.

6. Payments, Fees, and Payouts

Customer payments are processed by a third-party payment processor and remitted to you, less applicable platform fees. The fee schedule and payout cadence will be set out in the fee disclosure provided at onboarding, which forms part of this Agreement.

You are responsible for collecting and remitting any sales tax obligations that apply to your sales, except where the Platform or its payment processor is required by law to collect and remit on your behalf.

7. Your Content

You grant PL8S a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, display, and distribute the photos, menus, descriptions, and other content you upload, in connection with operating and promoting the Platform. You represent that you own or have rights to everything you upload and that it does not infringe any third-party right.

8. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless PL8S and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) the food you prepare, sell, or provide; (b) your business operations and conduct; (c) your failure to hold any required permit or license, or any violation of food-safety or other applicable law; and (d) any claim that your listings, photos, or other content infringe or misappropriate a third party's rights.

9. Term and Termination

Either party may terminate this Agreement at any time with notice to the other. PL8S may suspend or terminate your access immediately and without prior notice if PL8S believes in good faith that you have violated food-safety obligations, lost a required permit, violated applicable law, or endangered the safety or trust of customers or the Platform.

Upon termination you must fulfill or cancel (with refund) any outstanding reserved orders. Sections that by their nature survive termination — including indemnification, content license for existing promotional uses, dispute resolution, and payment reconciliation — survive.

10. Dispute Resolution

Disputes under this Agreement are resolved the same way as under the Terms of Service, Section 16: good-faith informal resolution for 30 days, then binding individual arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act, with a class action waiver, a small-claims carve-out, a 30-day arbitration opt-out right, and a one-year limitation period. California law governs.

11. General

The general terms in Section 18 of the Terms of Service (entire agreement, severability, no waiver, assignment, force majeure, electronic communications) apply to this Agreement.

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