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Ghost kitchens function as production facilities for delivery only restaurants.

These virtual restaurants provide no dine-in service. The food can only be ordered online via apps, hence the term cloud or ghost kitchen.

Virtual Restaurants and the Ghost Kitchens that support them.

Ghost kitchens function as production facilities for delivery only restaurants.

These virtual restaurants provide no dine-in service. The food can only be ordered online via apps, hence the term cloud or ghost kitchen.


News, updates, reviews and links to Ghost Kitchens and Related Services.


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Resources:

Cloud Kitchens Wiki [Info Website]

Ghost Restaurants [Wikipedia entry]


Kitchen Services:

Cloud Kitchens

The Food Corridor

FoodStars [United Kingdom]

Future Foods

Keatz [Europe]

The Kitchen Door

Kitchen United

Nextbite Brands

Virtual Dining Concepts

Zomato Kitchens [Global]

Zuul Kitchens

2nd Kitchen


Online Ordering Services:

Checkmate

Chowly

Cuboh

Ordermark

Toast

Your Fare


Virtual Restaurants:

Alt/Grub/Faction (Green Summit Group)

Cool Haus Ice Cream

Costata

Fat Brands

Fat Sal's Deli

Fresgo

The Halal Guys

Junzi

Kitchen United

Kreation Organic

Naya

Phood Farmacy

Positive Foods

Red Ribbon Fried Chicken

Sarge's

Sous Vide Kitchen

Stonebridge Pizza

Sweetgreen

Sweet Rose Creamery

Tacos 1986

TR Burgers & Wings

Wetzel's Pretzels


Food Delivery Services:

Bite Squad

Caviar

Deliveroo

DoorDash

Eat 24

Foodora

GrubHub

Postmates

Seamless

Skip The Dishes

Uber Eats

Zomato


Allied Culinary Subs:


The Trinity of Future Food:


Glossary of Terms

Virtual Restaurant: Delivery only restaurant that utilizes other food production facilities.

Ghost Kitchen: Food preparation facility designed to support virtual restaurants and food trucks.

Cloud Kitchen: A term often used interchangeably with ghost kitchen; may refer to the overall facility that houses several ghost kitchens.

Commissary Kitchen: Kitchen designed for preparation of food for off premise catering. Ghost kitchens are essentially updated commissary kitchens marketed towards virtual restaurants.

Black Market Kitchen: An illegal kitchen that is run out of a domicile or warehouse not approved for food production. They often lack proper sanitation and cross contamination procedures.

Food Delivery Service: Third party online delivery service that utilizes apps and social media.

Online Ordering Service: Third party software as a service companies that are often integrated with a food delivery service for a virtual restaurant.

Food Aggregator: Online portal that combines ordering, delivery and marketing for a restaurant at a fixed percentage.

Turnkey Restaurant: A kitchen center that offers automated, on premise dining to a variety of ghost kitchens and virtual brands.

Hawker Centre: An open air complex housing many stalls that sell a variety of inexpensive food.

Pop-up Restaurant: A temporary restaurant kiosk or stall that utilizes social media to promote itself.

Food Truck: Mobile food platform with an on board kitchen which can be a pop-up restaurant or an established brand.

/r/GhostKitchens

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Where do Ghost/Cloud Kitchens buy Food From?

Hello,

I am a manufacturer and distributor of south Asian food products (largest in Canada), and I am just wondering where those kitchens or cloud kitchen buy their food supplies from? We have newly made curries and samosas that are out of this world and I’d like to get them into some places.

Thank you!

2 Comments
2024/04/28
15:55 UTC

3

Ghost kitchens, Georgetown or Lexington, KY?

What/who/where are the ghost kitchens in Georgetown or Lexington, KY?

Thank you.

0 Comments
2024/04/05
20:36 UTC

2

Door dash ghost kitchen pickup

Is anyone offering pickup at your ghost kitchen location? I don’t know how to turn it off on the app so I figured we would try it and see how it goes.

3 Comments
2024/03/14
13:15 UTC

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what's your best advice on getting new catering clients?

As a restaurant owner that caters only 3x a month to the local YMCA and accouple law firms I realize I'm not very good at finding leads. I visited accouple charter schools downtown to see if they were interested in my services and handed a few gift certificates with no success, I have a basic website that doesn't promote the restaurant. Can someone give advice to get to 10 catering clients a mo

2 Comments
2024/02/18
21:04 UTC

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I own a defunct restaurant brand and I'm looking for a ghost kitchen partner to sell my product.

The brand was known largely for burgers and sandwiches, so I think it's a good fit for a ghost kitchen. What first steps would I need to take to make this possible?

Thanks!

1 Comment
2024/01/16
22:00 UTC

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Anyone run a bbq ghost kitchen?

I’m a huge bbq fan and I smoke a ton of meat on a backyard offset smoker. I’m curious how people have made the leap to starting a bbq themed ghost kitchen.

Bbq takes a lot time and attention to make and it requires special equipment, i.e., a smoker. Do you keep your smoker at the kitchen? It seems like you would be spending a lot of time at the kitchen space, but doesn’t that cost money?

7 Comments
2023/11/29
02:24 UTC

2

Profit on Ghost Kitchens

I'm operating my own ghost kitchens and was curious to see what profit margins others are seeing with this model

2 Comments
2023/11/14
23:12 UTC

3

Travis Kalanick’s Ghost Kitchen Company Announces Layoffs

Travis Kalanick’s CSS, a ghost kitchen company, has cut staff as tech and real estate sectors adapt to a challenging market

https://justlayoffs.com/city-storage-systems-layoffs/

0 Comments
2023/11/08
18:34 UTC

3

How to start a ghost kitchen with an existing business?

Hey! I own a deli, and we’re interested in starting a ghost kitchen with a slightly different menu, but not sure how to start. I’ve read a lot about it, and know many local businesses who do this, but unsure of the specifics. Do you have to get a separate license?

6 Comments
2023/11/04
16:36 UTC

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What are your profit margins?

I am considering renting some kitchen space but with all of the rising costs of Delivery apps and food inflation, are you even able to make a reasonable profit margin? Would love to hear from your experiences! Thank you!

10 Comments
2023/10/17
20:03 UTC

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I m open to Indian food truck but I don’t have a parking space location bend Oregon tell me

0 Comments
2023/09/23
21:27 UTC

2

Ghost kitchen ghost concept

Would it be possible to create a ghost kitchen online and forward your orders to other local restaurants to make and send out via doordash?

Like sell a quesadilla on your site with your marketing stratagies and have chili's make there quesadilla and send it out to the customer?

3 Comments
2023/09/06
05:13 UTC

4

What software + device for a virtual restaurant in Canada ?

I am looking for a system to take order from delivery apps and prints receipt.

Is there any one that you recommend ? and how much are you paying?

12 Comments
2023/08/29
20:10 UTC

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All about Ghost Kitchen Business: An infographic representing

0 Comments
2023/08/23
13:34 UTC

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Bussiness plan? I’m doing a scratch kitchen but afraid the cost of imported Italian tomatoes and organic olive oil may not allow me to achieve profits. How can a person plan the cost versus price points? Food will be better than papa Johns but I can’t beat their prices.

2 Comments
2023/07/31
06:51 UTC

3

Where to get packaging items from? Ali baba? Sysco? Any ideas?

1 Comment
2023/07/31
06:46 UTC

1

How long was your virtual kitchen open before local government entities checked for licensing and food safety/handling/preparation/ storage?

1 Comment
2023/07/31
06:33 UTC

2

Anyone have experience with a ghost kitchen within an apt?

4 Comments
2023/07/31
06:33 UTC

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Restaurant I work at started taking Ghost Kitchen orders

In addition to all the other tablets we have that take online orders through 3rd party apps, a couple days ago the owner set up a new tablet that was for a ghost kitchen? I had no idea what it was. Nothing came through the first couple days. Then, tonight, and order for two-10 inch pizzas came through.

It is just a couple pizzas from our normal menu. But, the price was almost TWICE as much! It was nearly 60$ for TWO 10 inch pizzas!

The people could have saved almost 30$ just calling the store directly..

I don't understand how this works... Is the owner just price gauging like crazy? Now, not only do we have to work for shitty wages at one restaurant, now we have to prepare super expensive food for ANOTHER app?

10 Comments
2023/07/16
06:15 UTC

2

What are the hours limits of operating a ghost kitchens in San Francisco, CA

Can't find that much info online after searching, all they want is my phone number and email address. please help out. Thank you.

1 Comment
2023/07/07
17:43 UTC

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What delivery services do we have available when we taking orders online with own website without the third-parity invoked?

So let's we also partner up with third-party ordering services .
BUT we also have own website to take orders,
When the orders are done through third party site, they have someone come pickup and delivery.
so when people order directly through our own website, do we have services available to have someone to pickup and delivery? Thank you.

4 Comments
2023/07/05
03:30 UTC

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Hello Guys, Is partner up with existing kitchen, where share some space and equipment considered as ghost kitchen?

For example, we found a kitchen where they sell pizza, and would like to share some of its space and equipment to make sushi for online orders only, Can that been done ? Is that consider a ghost kitchen ?

3 Comments
2023/07/05
02:02 UTC

3

Checking out a kitchen to rent - questions to ask?

Hi all,

Will be checking out a ghost kitchen to rent tomorrow. First time so are there any questions I should get answered?

Thanks

0 Comments
2023/06/28
00:23 UTC

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Any ghost kitchens that are cheap in Leeds or Manchester.

I have a budget of about £5k and looking to open a Shawarma ghost kitchen business, I have found two in Leeds and they charge £800 plus 3 months deposit with no equipment and extra £150 a month to use a shared walk in fridge. That's a bit too expensive if I wanted a kitchen like that I could rent an old takeaway that has been closed down near me for 700 a month with all equipment in it and 2 months deposit. The o ly.issue is that this takeaway in sheffield and Sheffield ain't good for deliveries. I just want a kitchen for work I know I'll smash it. £800 a month is too expensive with no equipment.

2 Comments
2023/06/24
14:33 UTC

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