The Work Place is a purpose built training and conference centre on Aycliffe Business Park. It opened in June 2008 and houses a number of tenants who rent space on the first floor of the building.  In total there are 50 staff with a permanent base in the building. We have extensive car parking facilities to accommodate the visitors who book the ground floor spaces for meetings, training and conferences. In total the car parking spaces total 120.
The training/conference facilities on the ground floor are regularly rented to local and regional organisations and we get many repeat bookings. We also offer a range of well attended training courses.
A café area is present toward the rear of the ground floor area which is served by a well appointed kitchen. The kitchen comprises:
Fridges, Microwave, Dishwasher, Soup Kettles, Potato oven, Panini grill, Pots and pans, Warming oven, Preparation areas, Cooker, Crockery, Cutlery etc
We are looking for a company willing to run a café service for The Work Place. We envisage that the successful organisation will be a catering operation who has already built a customer base (possibly in the external catering market) and who will utilise The Work Place facilities to run/expand their business.
In return The Work Place require a café service 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) which will be run for the benefit of the tenants and visitors to the building. The successful company may also wish to market the café in the local area for the benefit of other businesses and residents. The Work Place expect that the caterer provides a range of quality food and drinks which are well presented and reasonably priced.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone wanting to grow their catering operation with minimal risk and offers the opportunity to expand into a new market.
For more details of this opportunity please contact angela.wilkinson@durham.gov.uk or 01325 375900
Closing date for expressions of interest is 20 February 2015.