During the Covid-19 pandemic, ghost kitchens emerged as a popular solution for restaurants to make money while their brick-and-mortar establishments were shuttered. Once a promising “pandemic darling” that raised billions in venture funding, the ghost kitchen industry is “falling short of lofty expectations,” CNBC said.
“It is clear that the impact of ghost kitchens was overestimated,” Evert Gruyaert, a restaurant food and service leader at Deloitte, said to CNBC. “And we see that today with the decline in ghost kitchens.”
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