As a result, Cafe learnt to ski on his home hill of Coronet Peak from around three years of age.

Career highlights for Cafe include winning Australian & NZ Cup (ANC) super-G and super combined races at Mt Hutt on 10 September 2008, in which he also recorded 26 FIS points.

In September 2011 Cafe finished in second place at the ANC finals, earning a career best 20 FIS points, and earning him the FIS yellow bib in super-G.[citation needed] Tim attended Wakatipu High School in Queenstown and then completed a BCom at Otago University.

[citation needed] As a qualified examiner Tim has worked with the NZSIA and was a member of the NZ Demo Team at InterSki in Argentina in 2015.

He coached Alice to a GS gold medal in the 2019 Junior World Champs in Italy, which gave her entry to the World Cup finals in Andorra in March 2019, where she won the silver medal in GS.