Related: Amazon Prime members now get a free year of Grubhub+ membership That practice took off in the days of early online ordering with, which was bought out by GrubHub in 2011. And when online food ordering and delivery got off the ground, restaurants might offer different styles of food under different names to get listed more than once on the web. That could be a kitchen that happens to be part of an active restaurant but is also doing other things - or a kitchen that’s never been intended to handle dine-in guests.īack when there were phone books, restaurants would sometimes buy listings for additional business names to show up more than once in the Yellow Pages.
Simply put, a ghost kitchen offers a restaurant takeout or delivery meal without a matching restaurant you can walk into. This week, we’re looking at the ghost kitchen phenomenon, and how it’s expanded in Ithaca over the last dozen or so years.
