Metro Solo · Grow cabinets for cafés

A grow cabinet in your café. Fresh greens every service.

Metro Solo grows microgreens, herbs and leafy greens in a 61cm-wide cabinet that fits your prep room — cutting the €25–40/week you spend on specialty greens and ending once-a-week Friday deliveries.

The short version: €50/month for the cabinet, 0% interest over 36 months, plus €50/month Metro Care for seeds, sensors and support. Harvest daily, no delivery day, same varieties year-round.
~€100/moAll-in, Metro Solo + Care
61cmFootprint
0%Interest · 36 months
Leafy plants growing under LED grow lights on lit shelves, representative of the Metro Solo grow cabinet interior
Representative interior lighting — real Metro Solo product photography is pending (see PR notes). Placeholder image
From our café survey, June 2026

The four things cafés told us were broken

We surveyed professional kitchens spending €25–40/week on specialty greens. Every pain maps to something the cabinet fixes.

Pain: space

61cm footprint

Metro Solo is 61 × 61 × 204cm — about the size of a prep-room fridge. No dedicated room, no lost covers.

Pain: cost

Fixed monthly cost

Trade a variable €25–40/week garnish bill for one fixed line — from €100/month all-in, cabinet plus Metro Care.

Pain: delivery day

Harvest daily

No more building a menu around a Friday-only delivery slot — cut what you need, when service needs it.

Pain: seasonality

Same varieties, year-round

Climate-controlled shelves mean the herbs and microgreens on your menu don't disappear every winter.

The process

Install → resupply → harvest

Three steps, one cabinet, no horticultural experience required.

1

We install the cabinet

Delivered and commissioned in your kitchen — plumbed to a water source and plugged in, ready to plant the same day.

2

Seeds & nutrients arrive by post

Your Metro Care pouches for the month are posted or dropped off — pre-measured for your chosen crop mix.

3

App + sensors watch the grow

The WiFi controller runs light and irrigation on schedule, the sensor mesh flags anything unusual, and your team harvests.

Attached to every unit · €50/month

Metro Care: the support layer behind the cabinet

Every Metro Solo and Metro Duo comes with Metro Care — so the cabinet stays your team's problem to harvest, not to fix.

  • Seed & nutrient pouches posted or dropped off every month, matched to your crop mix.

  • Sensor mesh + Metro app — temperature, humidity and water alerts sent straight to your phone.

  • Insurance extended to 3 years, beyond the standard 1-year parts warranty on every cabinet.

  • Dedicated phone support and growing advice from our team whenever you need it.

Choose your cabinet

Metro Solo & Metro Duo

White-labelled G-Tools Nursery cabinets, built in the Netherlands by our partner G-Tools, with our own support layer on top.

Placeholder photography of an indoor living wall on white vertical columns, representative of Metro Duo pending real product shots

Metro Duo

Double sliding doors, 2m² grow area over 3 shelves, space for 12 grow trays — the bigger kitchen.

€70/month

0% interest over 36 months · or €2,495 up front

See Metro Duo
Scale up later

Growing beyond the kitchen?

If a café cabinet is just the start, MetroFarms also builds autonomous shipping-container vertical farms for growers who want to scale production into a full business.

The System

Inside the autonomous container farm — IoT sensors, ML control, cloud dashboard.

See the system

ROI & Economics

Run the numbers on payback period, yield and revenue for a container farm.

Run your ROI

Pricing & Packages

Container farm packages and financing for growers scaling into a full farm business.

See pricing
Common questions

People also ask

How much does a Metro Farms grow cabinet cost?

Metro Solo is €50/month (0% interest over 36 months, or €1,795 up front); Metro Duo is €70/month (0% interest over 36 months, or €2,495 up front). Add the Metro Care support package at €50/month and a Metro Solo café runs from about €100/month all-in — often less than a café already spends on imported garnish.

What can I grow in a Metro Farms cabinet?

Microgreens, culinary herbs, leafy greens and edible flowers — the varieties most cafés use for garnish, salads and specialty drinks. Seed and nutrient pouches for your chosen mix are posted or dropped off monthly as part of Metro Care.

How much space does a grow cabinet need?

Metro Solo has a 61 × 61cm footprint — about the size of a prep-room fridge — and stands 204cm tall. Metro Duo is larger at 118 × 78cm for cafés wanting more volume. Both are designed to fit a back-of-house corner rather than needing a dedicated room.

Who maintains the cabinet?

The cabinet largely looks after itself: a WiFi smart controller runs the light and irrigation schedule automatically, and a sensor mesh watches temperature, humidity and water. Day to day, your team just harvests. Metro Care adds monthly seed/nutrient resupply and phone support for anything else.

What if the cabinet breaks?

Every unit carries a 1-year parts warranty, and Metro Care extends that to 3 years of insurance cover, plus dedicated phone support and growing advice from our team — so a fault doesn't mean lost service or an unplanned bill.

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Get a pilot cabinet in your café

Tell us about your kitchen and menu, and we'll talk through siting, crop mix and financing for a Metro Solo or Metro Duo pilot.