Ordering food from Ghost Kitchens

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We don't use these types of delivery services often, so could someone explain it more to me? So a Mr. Beast burger is being made at a kitchen in a Bucca di Beppo restaurant?

Basically yes. Mr. Beast burger is a start up or that's their business model. It rents bucca di beppos kitchen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People who order this food have no standards. It could be made in the sewers for all they care. Chilis, Maggianos, whatever. Microwaved crap.

Agree. They just want something to binge on while simultaneously bingeing on video games or Tiktok

[Anonymous]

Link? Never heard of a ghost kitchen but intrigued

[Anonymous]

Wow. People are really uninformed where their food comes from. Nevermind understanding farms. This is just a rental kitchen model. People are so trusting to put anything into their bodies.

[Anonymous]

Ghost kitchens are a new type of real estate, like co-working but for restaurants. What I don’t like is if a no-name kitchen gets bad reviews, it seems very easy to shut down and re-start with a new name and concept. So there isn’t a good way to track reviews on what you’re buying.

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’s just me but I don’t understand why this worries people so much. If the food is good, I don’t really care.

[Anonymous]

I don't really care if they're renting kitchen space but were these orders being made after the actual restaurant closed? Or are they cooking for two separate companies in the same kitchen at the same time? I'd only be mad if I was at the restaurant and my food was taking longer because they were cooking up wings for an entirely different company rather than my meal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calm down op. Is there a problem?

Who said the OP had a problem. Maybe they are just informing you of something they learned.

Ghost kitchens started during the pandemic as a delivery model. Using a commercial kitchen already in place that kept some restaurant revenue coming in.

MrBeast basically did that with his fast food burger model. It is all labeled as a MrBeast burger and you would never know where it was made.

The Maggianos is a surprise, because I have eaten at a Chili’s once and never again!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't really care if they're renting kitchen space but were these orders being made after the actual restaurant closed? Or are they cooking for two separate companies in the same kitchen at the same time? I'd only be mad if I was at the restaurant and my food was taking longer because they were cooking up wings for an entirely different company rather than my meal.

There are establishments who put delivery orders to the bottom of the pile. It is awful as whether in person or not that is a customer who shouldn’t have to wait for in house customers to be served first.

I like the chipotle model that has two separate starting for mobile orders or delivery and in house.

[Anonymous]

I thought I understood ghost kitchens but now realize I don’t. How is Maggianos food from their menu get to be prepped at a whole other restaurant? Why? When there is an actual Maggianos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calm down op. Is there a problem?

Who said the OP had a problem. Maybe they are just informing you of something they learned.

Ghost kitchens started during the pandemic as a delivery model. Using a commercial kitchen already in place that kept some restaurant revenue coming in.

MrBeast basically did that with his fast food burger model. It is all labeled as a MrBeast burger and you would never know where it was made.

The Maggianos is a surprise, because I have eaten at a Chili’s once and never again!

Ghost kitchens existed well before the pandemic. Look up incubator kitchens.

[Anonymous]

Maggianos and chilis are the same company. I have a Chilis gift card from years ago, on the back it lists 4 chains it can used at, including Maggianos. Also, On the Border.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maggianos and chilis are the same company. I have a Chilis gift card from years ago, on the back it lists 4 chains it can used at, including Maggianos. Also, On the Border.

+1. Restaurant groups can prepare the food at any one of its kitchens. At the Maggianos level, you don’t need particularly skilled chefs doing the work.

[Anonymous]

Yes, they are subleasing space in an available kitchen.

[Anonymous]

It's also a way for long-established takeout joints, some of which might not have the best reputation, to rebrand. I think a lot of the never-heard-of-it places that show up on the apps as "Hot Chicken Cafe" or whatever are really the Manny & Olgas of the world.