by Tom Kaiser | Feb 3, 2022 | Briefs, News
As the virtual restaurant category continues growing across the board, Florida-based virtual restaurant provider, The Local Culinary, is planning to expand outside of the United States. “We saw amazing growth in 2021 thanks to our model,” said company founder Alp...
by Tom Kaiser | Jan 27, 2022 | News, Top Stories
Kitchen United and CloudKitchens aren’t the only ghost kitchens in town. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, Maker Kitchens is building secured, individual spaces aimed at virtual restaurant operators and independent food makers using services like Goldbelly to...
by Nicholas Upton | Jan 20, 2022 | Automation, News
Ghost kitchen operator ClusterTruck has a new model designed to help the company fill in existing markets and quickly scale new ones. ClusterTruck has been operating since 2016, founded on the principle of vertical integration. It controls the order platform, the...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 22, 2021 | Best Practices, News
This year may go down as the year of the ghost kitchen, but 2022 is looking pretty ghostly, too. As evidence, ghost-kitchen operator Kitchen United opened its ninth location in Santa Monica, Calif., and inked a new national deal with Fuku. Kitchen United CEO Michael...
by Nicholas Upton | Dec 8, 2021 | Finance, News
Ordering dinner at a brewery, hotel or venue from Reef ghost kitchen is not exactly hard. You head to a delivery platform, order your meal and wait for the driver. But the acquisition of 2ndKitchen promises to make it even easier. 2ndKitchen was founded three years...