Because dark kitchens / ghost kitchens aren't just outsourcing their seating area, they're outsourcing everything but the logo. Ghost kitchens will frequently "cook for" more than one "restaurant," but these separate restaurants will have the exact same items on their menu, because they're coming out of the same kitchen. It's dishonest and done exclusively to put more "options" on delivery apps that funnel orders to the same business. There's a dozen other reasons ghost kitchens are bad for everyone involved (except the business owners).
> Because dark kitchens / ghost kitchens aren't just outsourcing their seating area, they're outsourcing everything but the logo.
Which means that you thought your food was going to be prepared by some people you don't know, but ended up getting food prepared by other people you don't know.
> It's dishonest and done exclusively to put more "options" on delivery apps that funnel orders to the same business.
How is that any more dishonest than multiple OEMs rebranding the same manufacturer's consumer products or conventional restaurants using the same recipes and buying the same bulk ingredients from Cheney Bros. or Sysco?
Oh, yeah. Maybe it's worth differentiating between kitchens that are otherwise legit but exclusively serve via delivery apps, and kitchens that are spam. The former can be "ghost kitchens" and the latter can be "dark kitchens".
