Metos Visitor Center – explore and develop modern food production solutions
Metos Visitor Center in Finland
The Metos Visitor Center is a unique meeting place for foodservice professionals and decision-makers, located next to Metos headquarters in Kerava, Finland. As Finland's largest demonstration and testing environment for professional kitchen solutions, it offers a practical setting to explore equipment, processes and complete production solutions in real-life conditions.
Particular emphasis is placed on large-scale food production, Cook & Chill processes and efficient production workflows. Visitors can see, compare and test our solutions throughout the production chain, from cooking and food preparation to pumping, chilling, regeneration and serving. The Visitor Center showcases a comprehensive range of Metos Cooking Solutions equipment and technologies designed to improve productivity, food quality, consistency and sustainability.
Every year, thousands of professionals from Finland and abroad visit the Metos Visitor Center for demonstrations, workshops, training sessions, seminars and customer events. The facilities provide an opportunity to evaluate production concepts, develop operational processes and gain hands-on experience with equipment and solutions before making investment decisions. Together with Metos experts, visitors can explore how modern production kitchens can achieve greater efficiency, reliability and food quality through optimized processes and technology.
Come try out and test your concepts at the Metos Visitor Center
At the Metos Visitor Center, equipment and solutions aren’t just on display — they’re tested and put to use. This helps you understand which solutions are best suited for your operations and why. Come try them out and see how the processes and equipment work!
The Metos Visitor Center is located at our headquarters in Finland at Kerava.
Industry expertise and food production development at your service
At the Metos Visitor Center, visitors can explore modern food production solutions and evaluate different production methods in a practical environment. The Visitor Center provides an opportunity to examine production processes, compare alternative solutions and test how different technologies support operational goals.
Together with Metos experts, customers can assess their own concepts, workflows and production requirements, from cooking and food preparation to chilling, regeneration and serving. The facilities enable hands-on testing of equipment and complete process solutions, helping organizations identify the most efficient and suitable approaches for their operations.
Metos specialists work closely with customers to evaluate production concepts, workflows, capacity requirements and process efficiency. Whether you are planning a new production kitchen, optimizing an existing operation or exploring Cook & Chill production methods, our experts can help assess alternative approaches and solutions. Visits and demonstrations are always tailored to the customer's objectives and development needs.
Equipment exhibition, test kitchens and demo stations
The equipment exhibition at the Metos Visitor Center showcases a selection of our comprehensive product range as well as the latest innovations in the industry. The exhibition is complemented by demo stations and functional displays that support the presentation of various kitchen concepts.
The Visitor Center features:
* two test kitchens (Demo Kitchen and Test Kitchen)
* an open exhibition space with several demo stations
* a combined demo kitchen and meeting room Major
* personnel restaurant Maku
The equipment in the kitchens and demo environments can be customized as needed so that your visit best supports your own concepts and goals.
Visitor Center exhibition tour
The Metos Visitor Center exhibition tour presents the professional kitchen as a complete system — not as individual pieces of equipment. During the tour, you’ll learn how design, equipment solutions, in-house manufacturing, sustainability, and lifecycle services come together to form a functional and long-lasting system for everyday kitchen operations.
The exhibition showcases Metos’s more than 100 years of expertise in professional kitchens, ranging from in-house manufacturing to demanding Marine solutions. Highlights of the tour include cooking ranges, kettles, pressure cooking solutions, food transfer and pumping systems, chilling technologies and regeneration concepts designed for efficient large-scale food production.
The tour offers a concrete look at how professional kitchen processes can be developed to be more efficient, safer, and more resource-efficient throughout their entire lifecycle. The Visitor Center also serves as a meeting place for brainstorming, testing, and developing expertise.
