Heist crew

Chef

Voiced by Anthony Cumia

Alive4 missions

Chef turns up in 4 of the 77 story missions, first in Trevor Philips Industries and last in The Big Score.

Hired for a heist. Who you take changes the cut and how cleanly the job goes.

Role: Heist crew
Voice actor: Anthony Cumia
Status: Alive
Occupation: Meth cook, Freelance gunman
Affiliations: Fooliganz, Trevor Philips Enterprises, Trevor Philips, Ron Jakowski, Wade Hebert, Michael De Santa

Player notes

Chef is Trevor Philips Enterprises' crystal meth cook, although his real name is never given. He enters Grand Theft Auto V at Trevor's meth lab in Sandy Shores, where Trevor is meeting the Los Santos Triads. After Trevor's earlier confrontation with Ortega brings the Aztecas to the lab, Chef takes up arms beside Trevor and helps repel the attackers. He works alongside Trevor, Ron Jakowski and Wade Hebert as part of Trevor's operation, and is voiced by Anthony Cumia.

After Blitz Play, Chef contacts Trevor and offers his services as a gunman. Trevor can recruit him for The Paleto Score, where Chef joins Michael De Santa, Trevor and the rest of the crew for the robbery at the Blaine County Savings Bank in Paleto Bay. He holds his own during the escape and survives the job. Michael acknowledges his ability to Trevor after the crew gets clear of the bank.

Chef can also be hired for The Big Score. In the subtle approach, he can guard the gold during the Union Depository robbery without losing any of it as the first gunman, or work as the second gunman without causing trouble. In the obvious approach, he performs reliably in either gunman role and, when assigned as the second gunman, helps the crew fight the police during the escape from Los Santos. He remains alive after the heists.

Trivia

◆In the subtle approach of The Big Score, if he is placed as the first gunman, while he is loading the Gauntlets, he makes a little reference to the gold classification in the periodic table, saying, "Gold, Au, Atomic number: 79".
◆Chef probably believes Ron's conspiracy theory about lizard people taking the form of humans to work for the government as he shouts about the cops being lizard people if he is the second gunman for The Big Score - Obvious.
◆Unlike most of Trevor's associates, Chef doesn't seem to be afraid, or even intimidated by Trevor.
◆Chef will sometimes be found on the second floor of Liquor Ace outside of missions as a normal pedestrian. If interacted with, the player will use a default greeting. He can also be killed, but will always respawn.
◆He doesn't talk to the player in response, despite knowing Trevor.
◆Even though he's unlocked as a gunman from "The Paleto Score" onwards, he's not available to hire for The Bureau Raid, probably out of loyalty to Trevor.
◆Chef does not wear his glasses during heist missions.
◆Simply being known as Chef is maybe a reference to the character Phil "The Chef" Bushey from Stephen King's novel Under The Dome, as Bushey also cooks and samples his own batches of meth in the novel.
◆Chef is also very similar to from the / seasons of .
◆They are both the cooks in their respective meth empires while occasionally confronting the competition, which happen to both be Hispanic gangs (in Chef's case it was TPI and the Aztecas, while in Walter's it was and ).
◆Both associate themselves with violent sociopaths who help get their product out (In Chef's case it was Trevor, while in Walt's it was Tuco).
◆Both keep meth in RV's.
◆Both are also bald, wear glasses and have facial hair.
◆The main difference of the two is that Chef has done meth, while Walter only cooks.
◆If Trevor Philips Industries is replayed, Chef will always act as if Trevor spared Ortega in Mr. Philips, even if Trevor killed him in said mission.
◆When changing Chef's outfit in Director Mode, there exists a version of him wearing both the Bugstars exterminator outfit used in the smart approach for The Jewel Store Job and the firefighter outfit from the fire crew approach for The Bureau Raid, despite the fact that Chef cannot be selected as a gunman for either heist.