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What the Industry’s soothsayers are predicting in 2022

 By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 21, 2021

Restaurant and hotel brands, professional trendologists, industry groups and food companies are all having a say in what the next year will bring. We culled through the reports to find the common threads.

Operations

Thousands of virtual restaurants launched in the last year, but is the growth endless?

 By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 09, 2021

Three leaders of the boom share the ingredients for a successful virtual brand and what the future holds.

Technology

Reef buys startup 2ndKitchen to link ghost kitchens with hotels, bars

By Joe Guszkowski on Dec. 07, 2021

Chicago-based 2ndKitchen connects local restaurants to other businesses that want to offer foodservice.

Operations

Behind the scenes at the new Kitchen United Mix in NYC

By Patricia Cobe on Dec. 03, 2021

The ghost kitchen venue boasts 11 restaurant brands under one roof, allowing customers to combine items from all the menus in one to-go order.

Operations

Cracker Barrel has high hopes for its delivery business

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 23, 2021

The chain expects its virtual brands and ghost kitchens to generate incremental sales, though it’s still too early to tell just how well they’ll do.

Emerging Brands

Inside Epic Kitchens, a ghost kitchen/fast-casual hybrid

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 18, 2021

The company’s new Chicago location blurs the line between delivery hub and food court. It plans to open five more in the next year.

Technology

Automation is the Foundation of Ghost Kitchens

Sponsored content from our partner Grubbrr on Nov. 17, 2021

Ghost kitchens are attracting a lot of attention from restaurant chains, entrepreneurs and investors, and the reasons are clear. Sometimes called dark kitchens or virtual kitchens, the concept of a ‘g...

Technology

800 Degrees unveils robotic pizza spinoff, 800 Go by Piestro

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 12, 2021

The 800 Go brand will also feature brick-and-mortar restaurants and ghost kitchens under a new joint partnership with Piestro.

Operations

Why BBQ Holdings wants its breweries to serve breakfast

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 11, 2021

The company plans to co-brand the Granite City and Village Inn concepts to squeeze more revenue out of the breweries. And the mixing and matching doesn't stop there.

Operations

Ghost kitchens unlock big-city real estate for casual dining

By Joe Guszkowski on Nov. 11, 2021

Chains like Cracker Barrel and Chili’s are using small-format kitchens to go places they couldn’t before.

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