Tate Catering’s success this year is evident in the contracts it has retained, and new ones it has won.
The contract for the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge was retained for a further three years, as was the Somerset House Ice Café contract, also with an offer of three years.
A new contract was won in London to provide the catering at St John’s, Smith Square. This five-year contract starts from May 2008.
Tate has made its mark in Liverpool in many ways over the past year, and this success has extended to catering. Last year Tate Catering tendered for and won a contract at the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool. Tate Catering has also been awarded a five-year contract for Liverpool John Moores University’s new Art & Design Centre, due to open in September 2008.
Several awards have recognised the quality and success of Tate Catering during 2007–8. Café 2 at Tate Modern won Time Out’s award for best family restaurant of the year, and the Rex Whistler restaurant at Tate Britain was shortlisted in Tatler magazine’s annual restaurant awards for the quality of its wine list.
Altogether Tate Catering recorded a turnover of £13.4 million and a profit of just over £1 million.
