What is a Ghost Kitchen or Cloud Restaurant

A virtual restaurant, also known as a ghost kitchen, cloud kitchen, or dark kitchen, is a food service business that serves customers exclusively by delivery and pick-up based on phone, online ordering, or 3rd Party Apps such as GrubHub, DoorDash, etc. It is a separate food vendor entity that operates out of an existing restaurant's kitchen.

Ghost kitchens are meal preparation facilities with no dine-in options and rely on online third-party or their own delivery services to bring food to customers. There are typically two types of ghost kitchens: one that operates in a separate kitchen-only facility and one that operates in the kitchen of an existing restaurant.
Ghost kitchens rose as an opportunity to cut costs during the pandemic and profit from the rising popularity of takeout and delivery.
Commissary kitchen giants like CloudKitchens have established ghost kitchen blocks with over 20 kitchen spaces. However, poorly chosen locations have caused rifts, with neighborhood residents horrified by the traffic that delivery drivers bring.
Although ghost kitchens are much less costly to start, it is difficult for virtual kitchens with no connection to well-known brands to break even when factoring in delivery, leasing, and marketing fees.
Big chain restaurants like Chuck E. Cheese and Applebee’s have launched their own virtual kitchen brands to profit during COVID-19, though such a strategy could be labeled as either creative or deceptive.

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