Ghost Financial Gives Financial Tools to Ghost Kitchens, Restaurants
After completing a $2.5 million pre-seed funding round, Ghost Financial is emerging from stealth mode to provide what it calls a “comprehensive financing and business services platform” for ghost kitchens and other restaurant ventures, including insurance, payroll,...
Reef Cheers Renewal of Miami Policy for Mobile Units
As Reef and other ghost kitchen operators have learned, municipal approval is a lynchpin vital to the present and future of the category. Last week, commissioners in its hometown of Miami unanimously renewed an ordinance created to regulate app-based delivery and...
Two Ghost Growth Mindsets from Qdoba, WOWorks
Two restaurant companies are scaling up their ghost kitchens, and they’re taking some slightly different approaches to make ghost operations fit with their brands. Health-focused WOWorks, the parent company of Saladworks, Frutta Bowls, Garbanzo Mediterranean and...
Unfurl Cuisine Building Hands-On Virtual Food Halls
Billing itself as a virtual food hall that delivers, Unfurl Cuisine is a 3-unit operation in the increasingly murky area between ghost kitchens and food halls. Unfurl builds kitchens with spaces for up to 20 brands in one location where its own employees cook the...
Outstanding Operators
Food On Demand Outstanding Operators features restaurant brands with innovative operations that are taking creative paths to success with delivery and all things off-premises.