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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