In Denver, where rents come high and buying a property proves difficult, it’s not a bad idea to test the waters virtually before launching a brick-and-mortar restaurant.
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Jonathan Konsila owns the restaurant, which operates as a ghost kitchen out of the ChefReady facility at 1468 South Cherokee Street. The setup was his most affordable option when starting the business, which he runs alongside his wife and brother as well as his parents, who are from Thailand.
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In March 2020, many people had never heard of a virtual kitchen. Two years later, the industry is forecast to be a booming $14 billion industry by 2030.
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Restaurants face many challenges when they try to implement eco-friendly initiatives. From massive walk-in refrigerators to churning out hundreds of meals, it’s probably not surprising that restaurants typically use more energy than other types of commercial buildings.
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Like any industry, the restaurant industry has a deep carbon footprint. The US throws away more food than any other country in the world, with nearly 80 billion pounds of food wasted per year – an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the country’s entire food supply. Meanwhile, restaurants also tend to use more electricity than the average commercial building.
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A colorful mural helps the Chef Ready ghost kitchen stand out from its neighbors on a busy Denver street. The building’s interior is a maze of doors and kitchen equipment, where expert chefs like Keven Kinaschuk are crafting a wide range of global cuisine.
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From ghost kitchens to virtual restaurants, innovations are helping restaurants stay in business, and helping new restaurants open, at a time when the pandemic continues to make operations difficult
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Things are different today, when one scroll through restaurant delivery apps returns everything from sushi to souvlaki, but also a wealth of questions if you’ve noticed that many of the eateries on offer are ones you’ve never seen, much less stepped foot in before.
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ChefReady helps restaurants build and maintain virtual kitchen spaces. If you’re looking for some good to enjoy at home this summer, you can order online through an app.
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With no real definition of “ghost kitchen,” the term has come to mean all manner of things: food trucks serving multiple menus, restaurant pop-ups, commissary annexes, and, of course, branded kitchens that exist solely to fulfill third-party app delivery orders
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Virtual kitchens, with their low barriers to entry and streamlined delivery focus, are a smart and inexpensive way to get your food into customers’ hands.
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Thomas Concannon, owner of the Old School Heros sandwich and pasta concept that is slated to open next month in Denver, was about to sign a lease on his first brick-and-mortar restaurant when the COVID-19 pandemic hit last spring.
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The past 12 months has seen all kinds of virtual kitchens concepts (from rappers to Fortune 500 corporations to independently owned restaurants) take shape as the virtual kitchen industry is expected to reach $1T in less than 10 years.
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The restaurant industry remains rooted in a certain entrepreneurial spirit. These days, the industry continues to attract entrepreneurs but in a slightly different manner.
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Ghost kitchens—or restaurants that prepare food exclusively for delivery and have no physical footprint outside of a commercial kitchen—are the hottest start-ups in the restaurant world.
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While on the rise before COVID-19, the virtual or “ghost” kitchen market accelerated by years during the pandemic.
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Looking back on 2020, it’s hard to tally up everything that went wrong. The pandemic cast a gloomy shadow over the nation, while civic unrest heated up and spilled into city streets.
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At a time when eatery-capacity limitations also are limiting opportunities for chefs, several concepts are popping up in Denver.
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As the world adjusts to a “new normal,” many restaurants won’t be able to open (or reopen) as brick-and-mortar restaurants.
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