Meaning of dark kitchen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A commercial kitchen where restaurant-style meals are cooked for delivery.
   neologism
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, kitchen.

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Examples

““We were using some of our restaurant kitchens, but are now investing into more delivery-only or ‘dark’ kitchens, as we were not able to service the growing demand,” Jain said.”

“As a result of unfavourable market conditions for bricks and mortar restaurants, dark kitchens, also known as ghost restaurants, are becoming more common.”

“Dark kitchens make huge sense for the burger brand Boo. Set up by Arif Palejwala and his brother-in-law in Leicester, they have reached three other cities without having to find premises or fork out.”

“It is the success of online ordering players such as Uber Eats, Glovo, Just Eat and many more that paved the way for dark kitchens.”

“[I]f your dark kitchen adjoins a room with an abundance of natural light, it might work to remove the separating wall to let some of the light in […]”

“He was already fleeing back through the dark kitchen, banging his hip on the steel countertop, […]”

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