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What’s It Like Working in a Ghost Kitchen? We Couldn’t Get Close Enough to Ask.
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2935" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.eater.com/22632677/ghost-kitchens-restaurant-industry-food-delivery-takeout" target="_blank"><strong>What’s It Like Working in a Ghost Kitchen? We Couldn’t Get Close Enough to Ask. - Eater</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Ordering takeout or delivery is a lot like watching Netflix. You can do both things on your phone, the options are seemingly endless, and nothing looks particularly good. You scroll and scroll and scroll until you can’t scroll anymore, and begrudgingly decide on some gauzy teen drama, or defer to whatever generically named chicken wing joint paid for the best placement in the app. You hit <em>play</em> or <em>pay </em>or both, and several hours later you mope off to bed a little annoyed (with yourself, with contemporary life) and a little dyspeptic.</p><p></p><p>With growing frequency, the food you order from a delivery app is being prepared in a <a href="https://www.eater.com/21540765/ghost-kitchens-virtual-restaurants-covid-19-industry-impact" target="_blank">ghost kitchen</a> — or cloud kitchen, or commissary kitchen, or <a href="https://www.bonappetit.com/story/ghost-kitchens" target="_blank">whatever you want to call it</a> — by cooks working for a restaurant that doesn’t really exist, <a href="https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/02/why-ghost-kitchens-are-not-the-future-of-restaurants.html" target="_blank">at least not in the traditional sense</a>. There is no storefront, no dining room, and no front-of-house staff. In some cases, the kitchen functions as a hub for a handful of other so-called virtual restaurants; in others, the food from the virtual restaurant is prepared inside the kitchen of an established brick-and-mortar but with a separate name and menu. Either way, your burger or tacos or pizza could be cooked anywhere by anyone — which is what makes the ghost kitchen concept so lucrative and appealing to owners and investors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2935, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.eater.com/22632677/ghost-kitchens-restaurant-industry-food-delivery-takeout'][B]What’s It Like Working in a Ghost Kitchen? We Couldn’t Get Close Enough to Ask. - Eater[/B][/URL] Ordering takeout or delivery is a lot like watching Netflix. You can do both things on your phone, the options are seemingly endless, and nothing looks particularly good. You scroll and scroll and scroll until you can’t scroll anymore, and begrudgingly decide on some gauzy teen drama, or defer to whatever generically named chicken wing joint paid for the best placement in the app. You hit [I]play[/I] or [I]pay [/I]or both, and several hours later you mope off to bed a little annoyed (with yourself, with contemporary life) and a little dyspeptic. With growing frequency, the food you order from a delivery app is being prepared in a [URL='https://www.eater.com/21540765/ghost-kitchens-virtual-restaurants-covid-19-industry-impact']ghost kitchen[/URL] — or cloud kitchen, or commissary kitchen, or [URL='https://www.bonappetit.com/story/ghost-kitchens']whatever you want to call it[/URL] — by cooks working for a restaurant that doesn’t really exist, [URL='https://www.grubstreet.com/2021/02/why-ghost-kitchens-are-not-the-future-of-restaurants.html']at least not in the traditional sense[/URL]. There is no storefront, no dining room, and no front-of-house staff. In some cases, the kitchen functions as a hub for a handful of other so-called virtual restaurants; in others, the food from the virtual restaurant is prepared inside the kitchen of an established brick-and-mortar but with a separate name and menu. Either way, your burger or tacos or pizza could be cooked anywhere by anyone — which is what makes the ghost kitchen concept so lucrative and appealing to owners and investors. [/QUOTE]
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