Ordering food from Ghost Kitchens

[Anonymous]

The delivery app companies encourage it.

https://www.uppereastsite.com/seamless-grubhub-virtual-restaurants-upper-east-side/

[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.

How is that any different from cooking up wings for any other customer? Maybe it's the business model that allows the restaurant to stay open, but if the service isn't great/they are slow for any reason, just don't go back.

[Anonymous]

We got duped in the pandemic by some new, hot fried chicken thing my DH read about and was being done via a ghost kitchen on door dash. He got all excited by it, we ordered, and it turned out to be Outback. Once we realized the sauce was just blooming onion sauce, we felt so stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

It's a "virtual brand". A company ("Virtual Dining Concepts", in this case) comes up with the brand and the menu and then existing restaurants sign up to sell the items on delivery apps under the MrBeast name. This is a somewhat different concept than a ghost kitchen.

Here is a good article about virtual brands:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjpgd7/the-mystery-of-fcking-good-pizza-travis-kalanick-cloudkitchens-future-foods-delivery-restaurants