Job Introduction
We are looking for a passionate and experienced Restaurant General Manager who will be able to lead and develop the team in the Restaurant at Tate Modern. The Restaurant offers a seasonal menu with added inspiration from Tate’s artistic programme, whilst overlooking stunning views of London’s skyline.
As the Restaurant General Manager, your mission will be to transform the Restaurant business at Tate Modern. You will build its reputation through fastidious attention to detail, a love of hospitality, while celebrating food and drink in a truly unique world-class cultural environment where creativity, innovation, and collaboration are at the heart of the offer. Your commitment to excellence extends beyond the customer experience into commercial performance and profitability.
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
