Job Introduction
The Corner Café & Bar is a bustling deli café by day, offering fresh, seasonal food and expertly brewed coffee, before transforming into a sophisticated bar by night with a dynamic cocktail menu, craft beers, and carefully curated wines. With an energetic social programme, including live DJs, creative workshops, in-conversation events, and chef collaborations, it’s a space where food, drink, and culture meet.
During the summer months, the River Terrace comes alive, offering pizza, craft beer, and alfresco drinks on the lawn—making the most of its vibrant location. The space also has huge potential for private hire and group bookings, something we’re keen to grow.
We are looking for a leader who thrives in multifaceted, high-energy environments. Someone who can shape the vision, elevate the customer experience, and ensure every moment at Corner is considered and executed to perfection.
This is a rare opportunity to take the reins of a versatile, evolving space within one of the UK’s most exciting cultural institutions. You’ll have the autonomy to drive trade, experience, and engagement, ensuring the café and bar thrive across day and night operations. If you have a love for hospitality, a passion for great food and drink, and a sharp operational mindset, this is a role where you can truly make an impact.
Tate Eats is unique in the cultural world, a hospitality business whose purpose supports the vision and reach of Tate in all four of its galleries. All our profits are returned to Tate championing the right to the richness of art for everyone.
Our business is multi-faceted, we run restaurants, cafés and bars while delivering a vast range of events from film premieres to boardroom lunches. We are though much more than that, we have a pioneering roastery setting the agenda on gender equality in the coffee supply chain. We brew beer, we blend gin, we create teas, we have a multi award-winning wine programme, we visit farms, we research and write menus in response to Tate’s diverse programme, and we collaborate with artists and curators.
Become part of the Tate Eats dynamic team and be part of Tate. We offer a supportive, engaging working environment that is inspired by our surroundings and the creative institution we support. You will be able to express yourself, be challenged to think differently while working flexibly and collaboratively across teams. Tate Eats offers you the opportunity to grow personally and professionally in a nurturing, diverse business.
As well as a great place to work, we offer excellent benefits and development opportunities. Our benefits include:
- Staff meal allowance
- Performance & service awards
- Employee Assistance Program, Mental Health First Aiders, Cycle scheme and Eyecare vouchers
- A wide range of support for mental and physical wellbeing as well as a huge range of discounts at shops and websites through our online platform - Your Benefits
- Engagement activities such as: Producer & Supplier Trips, Wine Club and Mindful Movement
- Company funded qualifications in Food Safety, Wine (WSET) and Coffee (SCA), Management training courses and many more
- Great discounts in our shops and catering outlets
- Free entry to exhibitions for you, your friends and family
- Free national & international museum entry through NMDC and ICOM
- Free access to CODE Hospitality app
