Just Wings is bringing in more than $3 million in sales a week since its launch in June, according to Wyman Roberts, chief executive officer of parent company Brinker International Inc. The brand, delivered to customers through a partnership with DoorDash Inc., utilizes the kitchens of 1,050 Chili’s and Maggiano’s locations.

Not many restaurants can triple in size during a global pandemic, but Smokey Bones is doing just that by expanding its virtual restaurants, The Wing Experience and The Burger Experience, to all of its brick and mortar restaurants from Chicago to New York to Miami.

“We also made progress on our cross-selling and co-branding programs, with four new co-branded Fatburger / Buffalo’s locations during the quarter and one multi-concept virtual restaurant, and we have a strong development pipeline for the second half of the year.”

While the ghost kitchen concept is getting plenty of well-deserved press right now, there is one aspect that we believe is worth noting, but which is not yet being discussed: ghost kitchen mergers & acquisitions.

The Incubator Project represents a groundbreaking new approach to how aspiring restaurant operators take their ideas from inception to reality.

Despite the global pandemic, Fazoli’sis experiencing record-breaking expansion across the nation, including opening a ghost kitchen.

Last year, the restaurant company spent $424 million advertising its brands, including Arby’s, Sonic, Buffalo Wild Wings and Jimmy John’s, according to Kantar Media.

To better engage the explosive popularity of food delivery, many brands are eliminating their physical dining rooms and are shifting to an online-only approach to foodservice delivery, called Ghost Kitchens.

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The analytics firm said operators must ‘innovate delivery to stay viable’.

As hard as the pandemic has been on the industry, it has also forced some real innovations and creativity. Ultimately this should benefit the consumer and those restaurants and grocery stores who focus on providing the solution which the consumer needs.

Call it a ghost kitchen or a cloud kitchen, some successful entrepreneurs have found another way to get other entrepreneurs into the food and restaurant business at a fraction of the cost.

By embracing delivery-only services, the hospitality sector is expanding its options to stay in business

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Thousands of eateries are closing amid the pandemic. Delivery specialists are popping up, but some observers worry about a loss of culture and community.

It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an operating profit of just 4-5 percent. A financially sustainable business model for small independents is often elusive.

Horace’s isn’t Charlotte’s first ghost kitchen. It’s not even Charlotte’s first fried chicken ghost kitchen. But Horace’s is definitely the most mysterious.

The Memphis restaurant industry may be down, but it’s certainly not out, as owners introduce creative ways to retain customers — and keep them safe.

We have seen several restaurants pivot to a digital and drive-thru focus. Witness the new Shake Shack concept, Wawa just opened their first drive thru (which is the first major convenience store to go with this format), Sonic unveiled a new drive-in design, Chipotle’s shift to “Chipotlanes” has received a lot of coverage, and there have been many articles in general about the shift to drive-thru concepts. We believe those are some smart adjustments for any chain which offers a quick-service type of concept.

MacroAsia Corporation plans to establish its footprint in the virtual kitchen industry as the future of airline catering remains bleak

Ikcon was founded in Dubai in early 2019, by Khalid Baareh and Kareem Abughazaleh, to address the growing demand for food delivery across the Middle East.

EATR's four branded restaurants in eastern Helsinki can operate with lower overheads since they only offer food via online ordering.

Insight Survey's latest SA Fast Food/QSR Landscape Report 2020 carefully unfolds the global and local fast food markets based on the latest information and research, including the impact of Covid-19...