Metos Visitor Center – experience, learn and develop professional kitchen solutions
Metos Visitor Center in Kerava
The Metos Visitor Center is a meeting place for professionals in the commercial kitchen sector and an engaging visitor centre in Kerava, located next to Metos’s headquarters. It is Finland’s largest demonstration and testing environment for professional kitchen solutions, where customers can explore equipment, processes and kitchen solutions in practice, as well as gaining an insight into industry innovations and trends and top-class professional kitchen equipment.
Every year, the Metos Visitor Center welcomes thousands of professionals from the commercial kitchen sector, both from Finland and abroad. The premises provide a venue for equipment demonstrations, tests, training sessions, seminars and customer events. At the Visitor Center, you can develop your own concepts and processes and receive support to enhance your operations and expertise. You can even come and test your concept before you’ve even set up your restaurant!
Come try out and test your concepts at the Metos Visitor Center
At the 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 Ahjonkaarre, Kerava. Enter through the main door info desk.
A comprehensive experience of the world of professional kitchens
The Metos Visitor Center serves as a showcase for industry innovations, trends, and high-quality kitchen equipment. The exhibition is designed to help visitors understand comprehensive solutions: from food preparation to serving, dishwashing and logistics solutions, and digital tools.
The tour takes visitors through various themed areas and demonstrates how equipment, automation, and processes work together in different commercial kitchen environments — from restaurants to institutional kitchens.
Industry experts and trainings at your service
In the user training offered at the Metos Visitor Center, close attention is paid to the properties of the equipment and their efficient, safe and, for example, energy-saving use. In addition to our chef, our expert trainers are at your disposal. They can guide you and your staff, for example, in utilizing equipment automation.
Please note that a fee is charged for training provided by our trainers. All training events must always be agreed upon separately.
You can come test your concept at our facilities even before opening your restaurant!
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 called Major
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 and the production concepts built around them, combination ovens, and dishwashing solutions, all of which have a direct impact on workflow, ergonomics, and operational reliability.
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.
Restaurant Maku, auditorium and meeting rooms
In connection to the Visitor Center is Restaurant Maku, Metos’s staff restaurant and a functional demonstration environment in an authentic kitchen setting. The restaurant allows for the testing of equipment and solutions as part of daily operations.
At the ground floor of the facility features an auditorium that seats approximately 70 people for training and seminars, as well as several meeting rooms for gatherings of various sizes. Meetings and room reservations are arranged separately.
Metos Visitor Center offers an excellent setting for getting to know the latest equipment technology. However, everything is always centered around the customer and tasty and memorable food.
The Metos Outlet store
At our main location, in addition to the Center, you will find an Outlet store, which is generally open on weekdays from 8:00 to 15:00, apart from some exceptions.
Through the outlet, we sell brand new appliances and furniture returned from fairs, exhibitions and other events. The products are typically sold quickly, so the selection varies daily. The products for sale are mostly almost unused, fully functioning in terms of technology and in high demand due to their affordable price. If you happen to arrive at the right time, you can find great deals! The difference between outlet and new products is that the outlet products are given a functional warranty instead of the normal 12-month usage warranty.
Before you arrive, check that the Outlet is open. Opening hours and any exceptions can be found on the Outlet's website. In the online store, you can also find the equipment available in the Outlet.
Visit us and make use of our facilities!
Metos Center is a meeting place for industry professionals.
The video shows the highlights of the Metos Expo 9.-10.10. 2024.