is this a thing anyone else has read about or had much experience with? Practical solution to allow multiple businesses to run from one location, or shitty shady practice that lies to customers
excellent video on the topic for anyone with 40 mins to spare
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They should say itās a ghost kitchen.
I google mapped places i ordered from when i lived in leeds
5 guys is a few different restaurants on it in harrogate i think
Are there any indie points available for not using Deliveroo, Uber Eats etc?
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Yeah TGIs used to do loads and got rid of most
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Yeah thatās the good stuff.
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im sure some are more like legit shared kitchens, say one fried chicken place that works out of the kitchen of a bar that doesnāt do much food or has more space than they can use. No harm there, sharing of resources and splitting costs
but as soon as itās multiple places in one location, hiding their identities because they know the idea gives people the ick - no thanks
also tbf even in my ābetterā example, would be more fun if they just served that food in the bar, but guess itās hard to run on just that income nowadays vs having the delivery option open too
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Thereās a delivery McDo on an industrial estate near me. On the few occasions Iāve had one delivered, itās still come from the normal McDo though (and the High Street is still full of dodgily-driven mopeds and etc, as a result)
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These are all at the same address which is a pub and the pub does burgers and wings so I guess these arenāt even ghost kitchens just made up names for the same place
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wonder if this type of thing also just helps grab the people who like always trying new things. So instead of just getting one order from Sin City, going meh, and never going back to them - people will try all 5 of those different names over time, and they capture a lot more business even with the same products basically
We had one of these pop up. Turned out it was a greasy spoon cafe and someone was running a takeaway business in the evening. Iām not against the general concept of people using the same facility for multiple businesses per se. But in general it seems shady and needs tighter control. In our experience it clearly wasnāt someone who was following health and hygiene requirements. I do think delivery apps should make it clear if itās an actual restaurant, or a ghost kitchen. I wonāt hold my breath though
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theres a secret underground kitchen in new century hall in manchester that was designed to do this but it was full of MOULD so I donāt know if they ever did
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Wow
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Most of the time it just allows established brands to serve popular dishes with low costs right, dunno how it works if is Deliveroo or Uber paying royalties or if operate by the actual places.
But yeah probably quite shady
A lot of tourists and transient business folk here and not that many places as well so trying to hit that market and pretend that thereās choice that isnāt actually there
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I would say this a separate thing to ghost kitchens
(might be overplaying how secret it is)
not overplaying how much MOULD there was though, maybe itās better now they have heating on below it
Doubt that many people check the address so having multiple names might mean someone would check something out as being ānewā too
yeah thatās the crux of what i meant, which i hate as a concept in any area of life
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