The Latest Thing: "Ghost Restaurants"

Yeah. One of the best late night burgers near me on Uber eats is made in a Denny’s

 

I am seeing restaurants that share a kitchen. Adjacent to each other, separate entrances, separate menus, shared kitchen

 

Bizarre. Pretty creative

 

Interesting. If the food is good, I don't care lol.

 

I can just see all the finger pointing when the health department comes to inspect.

 

Yeah, I’m not eating Chuckie Cheese food but I couldn’t care less if some other “restaurant” uses Chuckie Cheese’s kitchen.

 

Its actually pretty genius. Let's say you run an amazing breakfast/lunch spot. You open at 6AM and close at 2PM. Then, your kitchen sits empty for 16 hours until you open tomorrow. If I can make some money on that kitchen while not having to pay any staff, it makes a lot of sense.

 

I ate at a rotesserie chicken small chain recently. My kid wanted fried chicken strips or nuggets which they didn’t have on the menu but they had this other menu / restaurant out of the same kitchen. I paid for it separately on a different register at the same counter.

 

A popular YouTuber Mr. Beast owns a burger business. My kids saw it was available for delivery and insisted we order from it. It was out of a ghost kitchen at our local Buca DiBeppo. Burgers and fries were decent but overpriced.

 

Just like a turnpike service plaza.

 

[QUOTE="chemgator, post: 14674967, member: 813"]I think it is the same people making the same food, but selling it under a different name. You're still eating Chuck-E-Cheese food. A chain restaurant owned by a corporation is typically not going to share its kitchen with another company--the liability (food poisoning, etc.) is just too great.
A lot of corporate decisions are driven by fear of
lawsuits.[/QUOTE]
It sometimes seems like most of what we consume is this way, the difference primarily being presentation.

 

Beast Burger does this.

Mr. Beast is a YouTube star that my 12 year old son loves. He is a millionaire many times over. He runs a pretty cool ghost outfit.

Burgers are pretty good for fast food.

 

Not sure about that case, but generally ghost restaurants have their own recipes that are basically pre made and prepped at the chain. They generally have a very small menu that is just a few steps.

Add the branding and viola.

Its pretty brilliant really.

Beat Burger has hundreds of locations with like zero employees.

 

Combo Kitchen – Restaurant Franchise System

 

You beat me to it.

Burgers are good, but not worth $10.

 

I sense Season 2 plotline