One retail sector that’s far from dead today? The ghost kitchen and the ghost franchise

Ordering food from a delivery app? The odds are it might come from a ghost kitchen. And if you don’t know what these are, you will soon. Industry analysts say that these kitchens – which prepare foods either from online-only restaurants or from several traditional restaurants in an area – are becoming a big part of the U.S. restaurant business.

Ghost kitchens, at their most basic, are commercial kitchens that don’t come with storefronts. They also don’t come with any physical dine-in or drive-through restaurant attached.

Instead, they are spaces that restaurant owners might rent to prepare food off-site so that they can deliver it more quickly to their customers....
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RSK: Not that many in our market area unless they are preparing meals for organizations etc. It is more fast food than anything else...like a lot of pizza places which have little seating but do a load of delivery.Anyone know of the contrary please email us and let us know.

Ken Notes: We will see lots of creativity in the restaurant space, I was blown away that there is a Walburgers in HyVee, total hard costs three TV Menu Screens and signage. No kitchen, no building, no interior, just add sauce and seasoning and charge 8 bucks for a quarter pounder...