Job Ref: COL1254
Branch: The Horniman Café
Location: The Horniman Café, London (South East)
Salary/Benefits: £14.90 Per Hour
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: Part Time
Shift pattern: 5 days a week - weekend included
Posted date: 08/08/2026
Closing date: 08/09/2026
Colicci is a family-run hospitality brand, proudly serving London’s iconic green spaces. Our cafés are bustling community hubs, offering exceptional coffee, fresh food, and warm hospitality.
We’re looking for a motivated and hands-on Café Supervisor to support daily operations, lead by example, and ensure an outstanding customer experience. This is an ideal opportunity for someone with hospitality experience who wants to take on more responsibility and develop their leadership skills in a thriving café environment.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Supporting the management team – ensuring smooth café operations and exceptional service.
- Leading motivating the team – inspiring colleagues to deliver high standards and a warm welcome.
- Delivering top-tier customer service – ensuring every customer enjoys an engaging and friendly atmosphere.
- Keeping the café running smoothly – helping the team with cleaning, stock replenishment, and general upkeep.
- Ensuring product displays look abundant inviting – maintaining beautiful and uniform visual merchandising.
- Supervising food safety hygiene standards – ensuring compliance and a clean, well-organised
- Taking orders serving customers – ensuring fast and efficient service with a smile.
- Assisting with stock control replenishment – keeping the café well-stocked and organised and overseeing deliveries.
- Helping with team scheduling – ensuring adequate coverage throughout the week in line with sales forecasts.
- Bringing energy enthusiasm – fostering a positive, team-focused work environment.
What We’re Looking For:
- An experienced hospitality professional – with previous experience as a Team Leader, or Café Supervisor.
- A customer-obsessed leader – who loves creating exceptional customer experiences.
- An eye for detail presentation – passionate about making displays look delicious, uniform and abundant.
- A hands-on team player – leading by example and always up for a challenge.
- A problem-solver – able to think on your feet and handle the unexpected
- A flexible adaptable attitude – ready to work weekends and peak periods but no evenings.
Why Join Colicci?
- Competitive salary - proud to be a Living Wage employer
- No late nights - most of our locations close by 5pm during winter hours and 7pm during summer
- Free food hot beverages on shift - get to choose a menu item of your choice
- Paid breaks - for all team members
- Exciting career growth – be part of a thriving, growing business
- Team discounts – enjoy 40% off across all our sites
- A supportive team culture – where passion thrives
Please note that unfortunately this role does not qualify for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have an existing right to work in the UK that does not require sponsorship.
If you’re a motivated hospitality professional looking for a supervisory role in a thriving café environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Our first cafe in the Colicci collection to be connected to a museum. We are thrilled to have partnered with the Horniman Museum and Gardens to operate their cafe space alongside the Bandstand kiosk situated in the gardens. The Horniman Museum and Gardens opened in 1901 as a gift to the people in perpetuity from tea trader and philanthropist Frederick John Horniman, to ‘bring the world to Forest Hill’. Today the Horniman has a collection of 350,000 objects, specimens and artefacts from around the world.
The interior scheme references the heritage features of the original architecture by Charles Harrison Townsend with a contemporary, timeless approach synonymous with the established Colicci cafe style.
Opened in 1901, the original Horniman Museum building is a unique example of the “Modern Style”. The limestone “Tree of Life” motif, as an emblem of nature in design, provided inspiration for The Horniman Cafe’s bespoke metalwork screen. This surrounds a set of new island booth seats to the centre of the cafe, upholstered using recycled wool fabric. Foresso Timber features once again for the Colicci cafe table tops. The sustainable timber terrazzo material captures waste timber to create a natural and textured finish. The central floor has received an eco Cork finish which is carbon negative and also has acoustic properties to allay noise levels in the bustling cafe
