Farm-to-Fork Café Opportunity

Could you do awesome things with Comrie Croft's Gorse Café?

We are looking for someone to lead the Gorse Café team either as an employee, or to develop it as your own business to partner with us. What is important is, that your café management/food producing experience, vision and team-building skills are a great fit. 

Gorse was launched in May 2025, following on from the successful Tea Garden Café. In one steep learning curve, the Gorse team has established an excellent reputation for local provenance, the best specialty coffee and friendly service. It has become a flagship for the awesome produce grown at the Croft and for its waste-free approach. We are now looking for a wonderful person to lead the team into the next stage of sustainable success.

The Opportunity Brief:

- Consolidate a 5* reputation: the kind of place you'd return to again and again or recommend to friends

- Offer a simple and enticing menu to include breakfasts, lunches, cakes/pastries, soups, salads, and speciality coffee and drinks

- Open 7-days a week Apr-Oct and at least Fri-Sun over the winter

- Cater to a diverse market including hungry mountain bikers and campers, our local community, staff lunches, group catering, and more

- Put local provenance, seasonality, and regenerative practice to the fore, including the use of as much produce as possible from the onsite farm (Tomnaha Market Garden)

- Offer consistently excellent speciality coffee and other hot drinks

- Build an exceedingly friendly and helpful team and ongoing customer friendships

- Grow a profitable business. Opportunities for development include marketing and social media; menu and margin development; integration with the farm and farm shop; reform service style and efficiency

- Have fun and keep a level head while managing the weekly and seasonal busy-quiet extremes

Hours and flexibility

Full time hours (40h per week) in the busy season, potentially less in Winter.

Flexibility is key—our busiest days are usually weekends, so you’ll work up to one weekend in two.

What are the benefits?

• Competitive salary

• 35 days annual paid leave (pro rata for p/t)

• Other perks (such as farm shop and bike shop discounts)

• Optional company pension scheme

• Profit share bonus

• Working in one of Scotland’s most beautiful spots, alongside a welcoming, supportive team

How to apply

If this opportunity excites you please apply by emailing your CV and an initial one page response saying how you would fulfil the opportunity brief above to nino@comriecroft.com. If you'd like to have an informal conversation before submitting an application please call us on 01764 670140 and ask for Nino.