Dark Kitchens to Rent
AKA Ghost/cloud Kitchens
DARK KITCHENS
Food delivery kitchens, also known as dark, cloud and ghost kitchens represent the greatest opportunity for growth in the hospitality sector and have quickly developed to become a financially preferable way for food entrepreneurs to grab a share of the UK's market for takeaway food deliveries. Typically, these kitchens are deployed solely to meet this ever-growing need for an online delivery service and are used in conjunction with delivery apps like Deliveroo, Just Eat, Uber Eats and Food Hub.
As long as you take the time to plan effectively, get the right tech in place and properly market your business, there’s a huge amount of opportunity in the marketplace. In a fast-changing, increasingly digital world, the low risk, adaptable nature of ghost kitchens could make them the restaurants of the future.
food delivery kitchens.
If you are in the market for a dark kitchen, our range of temporary kitchen units can match any anticipated market size and be supplied wholly bespoke to the equipment requirements of the food it will produce. Scalability and freedom for growth is essential in a market that is globally booming. The ability for your own business to scale in size with your changing requirements is something bricks & mortar cannot feasibly offer to even a similar degree, due to cost, time and mobility issues. Ergonomically designed, the modular kitchen also offers expertly designed layouts – taking into consideration the positioning and height of your work surfaces and defining clear work-triangles. We design and supply all the catering equipment you need to create anything you want from noodles, pizza, curries, burgers, fish and chips to sushi, gourmet and health food.
pros & cons.
Creating a modern, viable kitchen space in the right place can be a huge challenge – expensive rent, prolonged set-up and high conversion costs all add to the problem. Opening a brick-and-mortar restaurant requires a large initial investment – design and build can cost more than £500k and take more than 6 months to achieve. Often, landlords require a commitment to a long lease term, which can be as much as 15 years and is normally more than 5.
Dark kitchens reduce these overheads and other costs such as staffing in the process. A delivery kitchen costs much less to set up, takes as little as 3 months from initial enquiry to launch. The internal functionality of the kitchen will always be the most important factor, especially considering the endless possibilities in external branding the Modular Delivery Kitchen can receive to set yourself apart. Modular kitchen designers use scientific metrics covering the entire process – all the way from plan, creation to installation of the kitchen itself. This is done to guarantee the most optimal set-up is achieved that are perfectly suited to the requirements. You can capitalise on increasing demand for online ordering. Dark restaurants can sell through as many third-party delivery services as they want as well as through their website. And if you want to update your menu, you don’t need to re-print anything. Just make updates online and you’re all set.
The potential minor trade-off here would be that third-party delivery aggregators collect a transaction and/or service fee on each sale made on their platform. If left unchecked, this can certainly take away from a business’ net profits. With no customer-facing service, a ghost restaurant’s reputation relies heavily on word of mouth and online reviews. Brand-building in a strictly online space, without a brick and mortar location to drive awareness, makes effective digital marketing key to customer acquisition.
Growth to scale.
Scalability and freedom for growth is essential in a market that is globally booming with an estimated 1.34 billion online food delivery users worldwide in 2021. The ability for your own business to scale in size with your changing requirements is something bricks & mortar cannot feasibly offer to even a similar degree, due to cost, time and mobility issues. Modular Kitchens provide the owner with the potential to physically ‘add on’ kitchen size – connecting another ready-made unit to your original one. Working out of a large building? Maybe industrial in nature? No problem at all, the Modular Fast-Fit Walls can be added and swapped around to create an ever-growing, ever-adaptable delivery kitchen business that you won’t outgrow. With restaurant deliveries soaring, an entirely new delivery and takeout business model emerged. Enter dark kitchens - highly efficient production units without a storefront that are optimized for delivery.