by Laura Michaels | May 8, 2024 | News, Top Stories
When he left Uber in 2017, Travis Kalanick said someone told him 13 percent of all miles driven in San Francisco were “Uber miles.” The co-founder of the ride-hailing giant recalled thinking, “Can we do that with food?” Kalanick, who bought CloudKitchens parent...
by Tom Kaiser | Dec 1, 2023 | News, Top Stories
Meredith Sandland is co-author of “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food” and “Delivering the Digital Restaurant: The Path to Digital Maturity.” Meredith is the CEO of Empower Delivery, software that powers off-premise-centric...
by Tom Kaiser | Oct 20, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Surrounded by apartments on the edge of downtown Dallas, OOMI Digital Kitchen is building what it calls an evolved ghost kitchen model first popularized by CloudKitchens and Kitchen United. With outside brands and in-house virtual concepts cooked by its own staff in...
by Tom Kaiser | Aug 11, 2022 | News, Top Stories
An early partnership with DoorDash boosted Nimbus Kitchen right out of the gate, but the nascent ghost kitchen operator has plans to keep expanding in New York before covering the East Coast and, eventually, drifting westward. Compared to other ghost kitchens focusing...
by Tom Kaiser | Aug 4, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Ghost Financial CEO John Meyer predicts we’ll soon reach a point where it will be more economical for the vast majority of Americans to order delivery for every meal of the day—largely due to the innovation coming from ghost kitchens and automation. While he has...