We typically lease our production spaces at Gerharz Equipment with one-year minimum terms. Shorter-term leases may be available in some location under special circumstances. Please inquire for more information.

All spaces include key items most regulators require, including sinks, drains and washable finishes. Spaces can include type I hoods or type II hoods, and our larger production rooms include their own, exclusive walk-in coolers.

We pride ourselves on giving you options. We regularly work with tenants to customize spaces to accommodate specialized equipment and process needs.

You can make any recognized food product at our test kitchen—baked goods, dairy products, meat products, beverages, and more, depending on local jurisdiction.

The process differs from location to location. But in each jurisdiction, we work closely with key agencies to simplify and expedite the process of obtaining your regulatory approvals.

Yes! Because every tenant has their own, exclusive space, many receive organic, gluten-free, kosher, USDA, dairy and other special certifications.

Everyone from recognized national companies, to local startups, to regional powerhouses have found a home at Gerharz Equipment.

The principals behind Gerharz Equipment have been in business since 2003. We own our buildings rather than lease from others. Each of our properties has strong financials and backing from major banks. We are in business specifically to give our tenants the best, most stable production space we can.

Sign up for a tour at our test kitchen to see for yourself how well we can work for you!

We offer a suite of amenities well beyond other shared food facilities, including dry, cold and frozen storage, attended loading docks, on-site logistics, professional staff, office space, and packing rooms. Tenants say our spaces are as productive as spaces 5-10 times as large, thanks to our ample support spaces and fantastic on-site teams.

We have those! Gerharz Equipment offers kitchens in a wide variety of sizes from 120 SF to well over 2,000 SF in order to support your company at any stage of growth.

Gerharz Equipment is a great place to start small and take advantage of the flexibility we offer to grow into larger spaces as your business expands.

Yes. our production spaces make perfect commissary kitchens, whether you are making food for restaurants, meal delivery, wholesale/ retail CPG, catering or other commercial food products .

With our key amenities saving tenants money and time (including flexible dry, refrigerated and frozen storage, office space and conference rooms) and an onsite Gerharz Equipment team working the dock, warehouses and much more, tenants keep their payroll lean and their production flexible.

We’ve invested heavily in state-of-the-art infrastructure from hood systems to grease interceptors, to high capacity gas, water, and electric services to bring your products to market quickly and with maximum flexibility.

Each production space at Gerharz Equipment is rented exclusively to one tenant—yours is the only company to occupy your space. At Amped Kitchens, tenants control their production space 24-7, no competing with other food companies to schedule time or managing around the sanitary habits of others.

We can accommodate gluten-free, kosher, organic, and other third-party certifications because the production is always exclusive to a single tenant and each space has its own fresh air feed.

We provide a flexible longer-term solution for wholesale and retail production as well as restaurant commissary and other commercial production offering opportunities for control and scale as well as amenities that cannot be achieved in a shared kitchen.

Yes! We are a great choice for gluten-free and other allergen-controlled products based on the exclusive nature of the spaces and the fresh make-up air fed to every production space. Because the requirements vary for gluten-free certification, please inquire and we can walk through the opportunities to produce gluten-free at Gerharz Equipment.

Out test kitchen is designed to support some of the strictest food safety and manufacturing standards in the industry.

We have worked closely with health departments and other agencies to ensure our spaces meet stringent regulatory standards. We offer permit-ready private commercial kitchens that are perfect for companies looking for production space to carry out test, research and development activities as well as pilot production. Our kitchens have been pre-inspected by health officials to streamline permitting and accommodate the rigorous quality standards of public health agencies and the most demanding private buyers.

If you are looking for longer term test and R&D space, our production space is unmatched for quality, flexibility and amenity support. Each kitchen includes key items regulators require, including hand-wash and food prep sinks, drains, epoxy flooring and washable finishes.

Yes, they can! Our production space is built to some of the strictest food safety and manufacturing standards in the industry, including many facility-level USDA requirements for meat production. Our test kitchen has an on-site USDA office. And we will work with you and your consulting team on room requirements to implement your HACCP plan and help facilitate your obtaining a USDA grant of inspection.

Many factors drive the cost of co-packing, including how standard your product is, where you are sourcing your ingredients, how big an order you plan to produce and where the co-packer is located. Generally speaking, especially for smaller runs and more innovative products, brands can save money by self-manufacturing at a facility like ours.

Generally, we will save you money compared to hourly kitchens, stand-alone spaces and co-packers if you are in production at least 20 hours a week. Costs start at about $1,850/month for our entry-level spaces and go up based on the size of the space and the in-room amenities included in that space (e.g., walk-in cooler, hood system, etc.).