Today, digital kitchen platform C3 (Creating Culinary Communities) announced it has acquired 22 former Specialty’s locations and will use the spaces to launch a new digital brand, EllaMia.

Following the December announcement of SaladWorks’ acquisition of fast-casual brands Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh and Frutta Bowls, Nation’s Restaurant News sat down with Kelly Roddy, CEO of SaladWorks to discuss the acquisition of the smaller brands.

Muscle Maker, Inc. announced the opening of its second ghost kitchen location in the Girard neighborhood located in the city of Philadelphia.

Baristas Coffee Company/Munchie Magic is expanding into California, adding to its more than fifty locations in Washington State and Oregon delivering Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, snacks, and hot foods to customers via delivery partners DoorDash, GrubHub, and Uber Eats.

One of San Antonio’s newest dining options isn’t a restaurant at all. Ghost Kitchens SA launched Wednesday as a “virtual restaurant” concept.

Cruising Kitchens jumped into action to expand its operation to service Ghost Kitchens by taking on an additional 73,000 sq ft, bringing the combined square footage of the San Antonio based fabrication facility to 134,000 sq ft.

In early 2019, there weren’t any operational ghost kitchens in New York City. Camilla Opperman found this out the hard way.

DAR PRO Solutions caught up with Kitchen United - a rapidly growing ghost kitchen brand – on the unique challenges ghost kitchens face, their specific needs and what they looked for in a grease service provider. Here’s an exclusive Q&A with Kitchen United Austin general manager Zachary Adams.

Virtual kitchens, virtual restaurants, combined with a strategic partnership just might mean dynamic growth and new electricity for Wow Bao and its brand according to Steven Johnson, Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions®.

In this week's The Feed, Kylie Bearse introduces us to a new virtual restaurant, Combi Tacos, and the impact it's making on the Denver community.

It started out as a way to bring in money during the pandemic, but the Klonaris family of restaurants hopes its new ghost kitchen concept has legs long after the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

As hospitality operators across the country consider new ways to operate or look to launch new concepts in 2021, restaurant commerce platform GoTab unveils a new Contactless Ordering Starter Kit designed to equip them with all the hardware and software needed to run contactless dine-in, takeout and delivery operations.

Virtual kitchens, also called ghost, dark or cloud kitchens, are restaurants without a dining area. They either serve as off-premises support kitchens or standalone delivery and takeout-only businesses. It’s a decidedly unorthodox model, but one that’s growing in popularity lately.

[Podcast] - In this episode, Lee Gibbs chats with REEF Technology's VP of corporate strategy, Felix Gonzalez Roson, and Creating Culinary Communities' COO, Brad Reynolds, about the evolution of foodtech, how ghost kitchens could help address food delivery apps' remaining barriers, and how pandemic-era shifts might impact our dining options and experiences into the future.

Darden Restaurants Inc., which has remained an outlier among casual-dining companies in declining to jump into the third-party delivery pool, is skeptical that post-pandemic customers will continue to pursue those off-promise occasions as often when the COVID-19 crisis wanes.

Led by the Inspire-Dunkin’ Brands deal, 2020 turned out to be a bigger year for acquisition activity than anticipated. Expect more of the same this year.

Though 2021's performance will still be marred by dining room closures and capacity restrictions, there is still opportunity for the industry to take steps toward market improvement.

Customers on delivery apps — such as Uber Eats or DoorDash — can place an order from what they believe is a unique, local restaurant when, in fact, that restaurant is basically a chain restaurant in disguise. This reveal is the premise of a viral TikTok by DoorDash driver @FrogLuver2000.

For restaurants, ghost kitchens open the door to new urban points of distribution in a short period of time without the long-term financial commitment of brick and mortar and rent required by the traditional dining-in model. And customers get the quality food they want and expect – a lot faster.

FAT Brands Inc., parent company of Johnny Rockets and eight other restaurant concepts, announced the opening of new locations in Brazil, Chile, Italy, Peru and Spain.

London Impact Ventures is excited to announce its participation as lead investor in the $2M seed funding round of Kitchen Ventures. A highly disruptive cloud kitchen and virtual dining start-up based out of London, Kitchen Ventures leverages its network of cloud kitchens in central London to develop and launch chef-centric and influencer-based brands, the first of its kind in the UK.

As part of its innovation plan and customer service expansion, Puerto Rican restaurant company IRSI has launched It’s Just Wings, its first fully virtual restaurant offering exclusive service through Uber Eats.

In June last year, when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its peak in India, Gurugram-based food and beverage company, Lite Bite Foods (LBF) that operates around 200 dine-in restaurants and cafes across the country, accelerated its plan of foraying into the cloud kitchen space.