When the pandemic arrived in March 2020, and consumers stopped dining indoors, a movement in the restaurant industry gained speed that’s led to an expanding number of ghost and virtual kitchens.

This article originally appeared in the July/August 2023 issue of Central New York Magazine. The magazine is available by delivery to subscribers of syracuse.com or The Post-Standard for $25 a year.

Sep. 7—The restaurant was fake, but the chicken was real. It's been four years since the COVID-19 pandemic started and a lot of business practices changed with the expectation that things would go ...

To-go orders from their ghost kitchen out of a church were the only orders Balaton's was doing for over a year, before reopening a dine-in location this past Spring. In 2020, with in-person dining ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — We’ve all been there: too tired to cook dinner and scrolling through a favorite food delivery app. Luckily, Austin has a huge selection of local restaurants to choose from — the catch ...

If a ghost kitchen sounds like a spooky pop up that shows up around Halloween, well, that couldn't be further from the truth. Here's what it actually means.

One of the historic barriers to breaking into the restaurant industry is securing capital to get off the ground. The cost of equipment, leasing or purchasing a building, and properly staffing a ...

DENVER, Colo. — 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 ...

Virtual restaurants are all the rage right now – if you can’t actually visit one. With the rise of artificial intelligence and the metaverse, is it really a surprise that your next pizza delivery ...