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[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 days ago

That's hilarious, but it's definitely a ghost kitchen

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don’t have a problem with ghost kitchens. The best Indian takeaway (by far) near me doesn’t have a restaurant, they’re delivery (or collection) only. The curries are superb, and the prices are decent, presumably because they don’t have the overheads of a restaurant, waiters, bar staff, tables, chairs, linens, crockery, cutlery.

And I’d rather ghost kitchens existed than find myself sitting in a real restaurant, waiting for my food, while a constant stream of helmet-wearing moped riders come in and get priority.

[-] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Unironically my husband would love working at one. Food service is his preferred trade, but as an introvert if you took out the service part, he'd thrive.

[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've got no problem with those kinds of ghost kitchens, and some of my favorite places to get food from are take-out only too. This looks like one of the Virtual Dining Concepts kitchens where they have like 30 "restaurants" taking up space on delivery apps all having the exact same menu so you're more likely to order from them than a local place

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

But aren't they also a local place if they're close enough to deliver to you?

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I might be misunderstanding what a ghost kitchen is. Kitchens without a storefront are sometimes good but the "restaurants" that are just brands licensed to establishments, like this one, are almost always the lowest of peddled trash. That said, I'm hoping to order it at some point and make a post on it here.

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Is there a difference between a ghost kitchen and a cloud kitchen?

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 6 points 2 days ago

cloud kitchen is a brand that provides ghost kitchen services

[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

If there are multiple "restaurants" operating out of the same location or address, those are ghost kitchens. I've never heard the term cloud kitchen before

[-] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, so they're the same. Heard the term from my Indian coworkers, apparently they're very big in india

[-] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah i didn't know how to explain that as succinctly as you did lol.

[-] kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

OPs place is a ghost kitchen and i’ve seen their branches on my apps too, but here’s a real one

What's wrong with a ghost kitchen?

[-] Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

A lot of the ghost kitchens I've encountered are three or four different "restaurants" with one guy working. The food is 90% deep fried frozen stuff, and the stuff they do cook tastes bad or is really average quality at best in my experience. If they get enough bad ratings they close that one and start a new one with an identical menu but a new name and uber doesn't care.

Some of them are even real restaurants that had bad ratings so they run a shop with a different menu out of their kitchen. An Indian place near me has 2.4 stars which is the lowest I had ever seen - until they started a pizza shop out of the same kitchen and got down to 1.9.

Maybe some are good, but I've never encountered a good one in my city. There's no accountability, and it leads to lower standards.

[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

1.9? Are they playing for being The Room of restaurants, wow.

[-] Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

I really hate how deceptive they are. There's a company called Virtual Dining Concepts that has like one location in an area, but they sign up as 30 or more different "restaurants" on delivery apps. All having the same menu and their items all have the same ingredients, and there are so many listings to trick you into ordering their food thinking you are trying a new local place called "Slutty Buns" or whatever

[-] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

It is. Most ghost kitchens are shit and steal business from real, local restaurants. I haven't tried this one yet (it's prepared by a bar near me) but goddamn if it doesn't appeal to my nature.

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