Metis Construction

OSL Serves (formerly known as OPERATION: Sack Lunch) is a 35-year non-profit in Seattle, providing no-cost, nutrient dense, culturally relevant meals, to shelters, tiny house villages, permanent supportive housing, Open Meal Service sites, children’s summer meals, and other organizations needing nutritional support. We currently prepare, deliver, and serve 7200 meals each day more than 2.2 million meals annually. Our Food in Motion Food Recovery program (FIM) recovers more than 2 million pounds of viable food annually, which we redistribute to more than 36 meal provider agencies throughout the greater Seattle area. Our Meals Partnership Coalition (MPC) program, represents and supports all the MPC member agencies throughout the emergency meal system, in the greater Seattle area. For many years, OSL operated out of seven very small kitchen environments, with antiquated equipment, that continuously broke down. Our work throughout COVID catapulted OSL from 3200 meals a day, to 9000 meals a day, from a 30 staff members, to 75 staff members, and we out-grew all of our environments. We began a search for the perfect place to fulfill the dream of a home of our own. After a two-year search, and a whole lot of disappointment, we found a 13,000 square foot warehouse in Georgetown (Seattle) that met all of our requirements in February of 2023. We were very excited to begin negotiations to secure a 10-year lease. However, the lease negotiations encountered a complication as the building was leased to a company that wanted to terminate their lease early, so there was a lot of back and forth with the landlord, our real-estate company, the current tenant, OSL, and everyone’s legal counsel. The clock was ticking, and we were losing precious time needed to build out our new kitchen. We had absolutely no experience with this type of commercial lease, and we were out of our element. We finally secured the lease agreement in late August of 2023, and signed the lease in September of 2023, which gave us only 8 months to complete the new kitchen. We began the search for a contractor to make this dream a reality. It needed a lot of work to turn the space into a 5500 square foot kitchen, with 6000 square feet of cold, frozen, and dry storage, and 1200 square feet of office space. Time was of the essence as we needed to be out of our leased kitchen in Belltown by the end of May 2024, when demolition for the Belltown building was scheduled to begin. In October of 2023, three contractors bid on the remodel which took several weeks to complete, and we decided on METIS and that negotiation commenced. We had a signed contract by 1/5/2024 and we were flat-out-of-time to complete a project that everyone, but me, knew would take longer than the 5 months we had left. What we did know, and what the City knew, was that if we didn’t open by May 31st, the emergency meal system would be losing more than 7000 meals a day. We needed a miracle! The City and the DOH gave us one by expediting all our permits. Through their dedication to excellence, METIS and their subs delivered us the other miracle by completing our kitchen in 5 months! Even though there was a lot of finger-nail chewing, METIS, and their entire team, gave us a happy dance! We cooked our first meal in our beautiful new State-of-the-Art commercial kitchen, on May 15th, 2024! We can’t even begin to sing the praises about our experience with METIS loud enough! The quality of their work, their commitment to our project, and to the mission of our organization, was outstanding, and unexpected. All of their subs were excellent, and the management of the team and entire project went over and above what we expected. Pictures of our beautiful new kitchen, with a 37 ½ foot hood and cook-line are attached. Our kitchen is equipped to prepare 15,000 meals a day! It is awesome! OSL Serves is thrilled and honored to recommend METIS for any project and construction dream you have imagined! Special mention and thanks to Tom Hall, Sara Kautz, and Sebastian Kimura, you guys ROCKED IT! Thank you!!!

We worked with Metis to renovate our attic, turning it from a dark one bedroom to a full master suite with a bathroom. They were able to take the vision of our architect and bring it to life with incredible craftsmanship and attention to detail. Their in-house wood shop meant that we could do custom cabinetry throughout in order to maximize the space and ensure a cohesive design. Our builder, Mikel, in particular brought a passionate eye for detail, working through multiple mockups of the tricky parts of the build (including the coolest mirror cabinet you've ever seen), and taking obvious joy in building something beautiful and functional. Our project manager was also a dream, clearly communicating each phase of the build, any requirements from us, and keeping the project moving. Metis also worked with excellent sub-contractors, and came up with an ingenious method for entry in and out which meant we could stay at home (and work at home!) for the duration of the project. I've heard tons of horror stories from friends about renovations, and ours was the absolute opposite. We're so grateful for the care and incredible work they did for us, and we'd love to work with Metis again!

We used Metis for our home remodel and deck upgrade over the last year and a half and had a great experience! We did a main floor addition off the back of our house (added a master bedroom and bath) and remodeled our kitchen last year, and just completed the upgraded deck space a few weeks ago. We were newbies to dealing with any sort of construction, so we had a steep learning curve. The Metis team was super patient with all our questions, very transparent with how pricing was established, communicating costs (with receipts!) along the way, and super reliable. We were very involved with the entire Metis team that touched our project, and really enjoyed learning about the building process (truly, it was a ton of fun!). It's a fantastic group of people, and if we ever have another project, we would not hesitate to use them again.

Metis came highly recommended to as a contractor that built too many restaurants. We are very happy that we got to use them to help with all the TI improvement for our tanoor in Seattle restaurant. Josh was extremely courteous and responsive. Unlike the contractor who built our Sammamish location, this project was well built and on time. We made too many change requests and still all requests were accommodated for and nicely handled. Feel free to stop by tanoor restaurant in Seattle to see the beautiful work they did for us. I am sure once we open for dine-in this winter, tanoor will be the talk of town for how beautiful of a setting and design it is. tanoor and Metis partnered together on this design-build project and we are very proud to show case our restaurant to everyone interested. Thank you Metis team

We were overwhelmed with the task of preparing the home of our loved one for sale after he died. We faced years' worth of partly finished projects, DIY repairs that weren't to code, leaking skylights, an exterior deck that was falling down, and a roof that needed replacement. From the time we first met Nils Christian, we began to breathe again. He helped us identify and prioritize what we needed to do, and as he translated tasks into hours of labor, he used a term I'd never heard from a contractor. He'd say, "This is something a talented painter can take care of in X hours." And every one of the people from Metis, as well as the subcontractors they brought in (looking at you, Loberg Roofing), were TALENTED. We recommend the Metis team wholeheartedly and without reservation.