Hoods

As uncertain times continue to threaten the livelihoods of businesses all throughout the country and world, restauranteurs are needing to adapt in order to outlast the changes happening around the world. Whether it be global pandemics or the ever-increasing popularity of food delivery apps such as UberEats and GrubHub, restaurants are being forced to constantly stay up to date on the newly developing trends to ensure their businesses’ success. Between February 2020 and April 2020 there was an enormous 840% increase in weekly online ordering for restaurants, greatly brought on by the length COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing measures - forcing restaurants to shift their focus from in-person dining to takeout and delivery orders. One ever growing trend that looks to capitalize on the growing increase of online ordering and delivery service models are the introduction of Ghost Kitchens.

Ghost Kitchens repurpose existing restaurant and commercial kitchen spaces to create restaurant brands specifically that strictly cater to online delivery services. This greatly helps reduce the costs of running a brick & mortar restaurant location while allowing these virtual restaurants to offer all different types of dishes. Ghost kitchens are increasing in popularity in heavily populated, high-rent neighborhoods where people want a wide variety of dishes and the costs of opening physical restaurant locations may not be easily doable.  Ghost restaurants remove the need for h...