manufacturer, off ering a large range of products and services to complement them.
Top, from left: Petri Nevala, Metos area manager; Compass Group team: Arto Ruotsalainen, kitchen manager; Jani Immonen, event manager; and Sari Salminen, restaurant business manager
A partnership with history Metos’ partnership with Compass Group for the project is the happy product of an existing relationship. “Metos is a well-known and reliable kitchen appliance supplier. We have a long history of cooperation for decades,” says Salminen. “Metos’ installation team did their job in an exemplary manner, and Metos' maintenance also plays an important role in events.” Metos has a long history
of providing professional equipment for the stadium and for the City of Helsinki, the body which organized the renovation. “Metos delivered the fi rst installation in 1938 when the
stadium was built,” explains Petri Nevala, Metos' regional manager. Until 2020, the stadium’s foodservices changed little, and there was a limited number of F&B points. “T e renovation changed the whole infrastructure,” says Nevala. “T e fi rst central kitchen was installed in summer 2019. T e fi nal installations were ready in autumn 2020.” T e main challenge was the sheer scale of
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the project. “T e biggest diff erence to more standard projects was the large amount of F&B points. T ere are several of the same type of units in diff erent locations,” says Nevala. “Metos’ service keeps track of each product by giving each unit a unique service code.” T ere were also challenges involved in
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bringing the equipment into the stadium. “T e measurements of the F&B points didn’t always match the original plans,” says Nevala. “We tailored some equipment to fi t them in.”
Collective success Metos had to consider how operations could rise to the challenge of looking after the stadium’s many guests. “Heat safety and transport chain management are very important so that the product is designed exactly as specifi ed by the customer,” says Salminen. “Responsibility is also taken into account, because everything related to the product must be recyclable.” In addition, the impact of Covid-19 presented new obstacles, particularly in terms of securing a workforce. T is required strong leadership and innovative solutions, such as food trolleys. Another consideration is how customers
will eat the food. Because there is no dining seating, products must be able to eaten with one hand, and heated up in batches. Compass Group worked in the Metos test kitchen to optimize the menu, and Metos had the wide product range to respond to these needs. “Scalability, automation, energy effi ciency and sustainability were the most important criteria when selecting equipment,” says Nevala. With the Olympic Stadium starting to
reopen following the eff ects of Covid-19, the results of a combined eff ort between Compass Group and Metos are now proudly on display, and it is time to show off what a winning partnership can achieve.
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THE SCALE OF AMBITION First opened in 1938, the Helsinki Olympic Stadium is Finland’s largest event arena. Since the completion of its renovation in August 2020, the stadium will host over a million people each year. Its facilities include 41 F&B points and about 160 checkout points, which are managed by Compass Group. Kitchen manufacturer Metos was selected to provide the equipment installations. Together, the companies took on the challenges of logistics, sustainability and Covid-19 disruption, not to mention the sheer scale of the project.
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