Cafe Manager
Morrisons
From a Bradford market stall to one of the UK's largest supermarkets, we are proud to be the Yorkshire food retailer serving customers across the UK over almost 500 stores and through a home delivery service.
At Morrisons, we’re proud to be The Market Street Grocer, and our Cafes are the bustling heart of our stores. We do things differently. We don't just serve meals, we are passionate about food, proud of our British heritage, and dedicated to giving our customers a warm, welcoming place to relax and recharge. From our freshly battered fish and chips to our perfectly poured coffees, great food and friendly service is at the very heart of what we do. We love what we do, and we want you to love it too.
As a Cafe Manager, you’ll be the driving force behind our bustling in-store restaurant. This isn’t a sit behind a desk kind of job, you’ll be right out there on the floor and in the kitchen, ensuring our dining area looks spectacular and feels like a vibrant, welcoming community hub.
Reporting into an Area Hospitality Manager, you’ll take full ownership of the menu delivery, speed of service, and hospitality. Your main objective is to ensure every plate of food is beautifully presented and top-quality, while coaching your team to deliver the friendly, helpful service that keeps our regulars coming back week after week.
What you'll be doing day-to-day:
- Leading with Passion: Inspiring, coaching, and developing a team of colleagues across the kitchen and front-of-house to be the best they can be.
- Driving Excellence: Ensuring impeccable standards of food quality, barista service, and table presentation across the entire cafe environment.
- Managing the Numbers: Taking responsibility for your cafe’s sales, food waste management, stock control, and labour budgets to run a profitable operation.
- Keeping it Safe: Maintaining legal compliance, kitchen food safety, and hygiene standards to the highest degree (keeping those FHR ratings top-tier).
- Putting Customers First: Being a friendly, welcoming face on the floor, ensuring our customers always enjoy a hot meal, a great brew, and a fantastic atmosphere.
- Competitive Salary: We don't advertise salary because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Morrisons. Our recruitment team will always discuss this with you early in the process as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary.
- Two colleague discount cards: 15% staff discount for you plus a second card for a friend or family member.
- A highly competitive pension scheme
- 33 days annual leave
- Private healthcare
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Sir Ken Morrison Leadership School: Internal leadership school offering a University accredited development programme.
- My Morri' Exclusive Discount Platform: Instant discounts on everyday purchases, dining and leisure plus online cashback and reloadable cards.
More About You
You don’t just love food; you understand how to run a commercial, high-volume hospitality operation. You're a people person through and through, with a knack for bringing out the best in others and a sharp eye for detail.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- Proven leadership experience: From a fast-paced cafe, restaurant, or broader hospitality environment (experience in high-volume food service is a massive plus, but your leadership style is what matters most).
- A commercial mindset: You know how to maximize covers, spot opportunities to drive menu sales, and keep a tight grip on food waste.
- A hands on, roll up your sleeves attitude: You love being in the thick of it and thrive on the energy of a busy lunchtime rush.
- Brilliant communication skills: With the ability to build strong, positive relationships with your kitchen team, front-of-house staff, and your customers.
- A genuine pride: For delivering great quality meals and a consistently brilliant dining experience.
More About Us
At Morrisons, we’ve always done things a bit differently. Our story started all the way back in 1899 as a humble egg and butter stall in Bradford market. 127 years later, we’re one of the UK’s leading supermarkets, but we’ve never lost that independent shopkeeper spirit.
At just under 500 stores across the UK, our retail colleagues work as one team to feed the nation and provide a memorable shopping experience. We’re a team of over 90,000 down-to-earth, hard-working people. We care about fresh food, friendly service, and looking after each other.
What truly sets us apart is that we don’t just move boxes from trucks to shelves, we are food makers and shopkeepers. As the UK's second largest food manufacturer, we source directly from British farmers, process meat in our own abattoirs, and prepare fresh food right in front of our customers.
From our vibrant store displays to the hot meals served in our Cafes, we take massive pride in feeding the nation honest, high-quality, fresh food. As we own our own supply chain, including manufacturing sites, flower hubs, and logistics networks, the career paths here are varied. We are deeply committed to learning and development, ensuring that if you have the drive to progress, we will give you the tools, courses, and support to go as far as you want to.
We don't overcomplicate things. We work hard, we look out for each other, have a laugh along the way, and take immense pride in the food we sell and the communities we serve.
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