Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Kitchen
Everything You Need To Know About Cloud Kitchen
The growing demand for online food delivery has led to the birth of delivery-only restaurants aka the Cloud Kitchen. These cloud kitchens are also known as ghost kitchens, dark kitchens and these virtual restaurants are gaining much popularity in the F&B space. Cloud kitchens are touted to be the smartest way to operate restaurant business.
Well, you might ask, this cloud kitchen is nothing new. The pizza industry has literally developed its business model around the same concept and has been around for decades. But, the ease at which the delivery is handled these days with greater technological advancements has certainly helped change consumer habits.
Here’s everything you need to know about the cloud kitchen before setting up one:
How does cloud kitchen work?
Cloud kitchens are basically food production facilities that operate having centralized licenses. The space where cloud kitchens are set up can normally accommodate about one to two dozen kitchens and these kitchens focus on unique menus.
Numerous mini kitchens along with stainless steel tables, stoves, ovens, sinks, hoods and each of these restaurants catering to a wide set of audience is sight too familiar when you set up a cloud kitchen.
Cloud kitchen transformation
The menu items offered by a cloud kitchen are generally cost efficient and optimized to enable ease of production and they mostly tend to focus on quality upon delivery. Cloud kitchens are designed with screens to monitor order times, and also allow check-in stations for delivery pick-up. These kitchens primarily focus on getting the food out of the door and into the customer’s hands as soon as possible without compromising on the quality.
Technology is the key
Cloud kitchens are tech-enabled and can also be liaised with the food delivery apps like swiggy, Zomato, dunzo. This provides large amount of data and provides insights on what types of food are most preferred in specific neighborhood. It also provides data on when the demand is at peak. The biggest advantage is technology helps provide these data in real-time.
Benefits of Cloud Kitchen
The benefits of cloud kitchen as against a traditional brick and mortar restaurant are many. Here are a few benefits of cloud kitchen as against the traditional models.
1) Low Cost
A herculean challenge that most restaurants face is the costs of hiring staff and following strict compliances and much stricter labor laws. Cloud kitchens come as a fresh breath of air since it allows for on-demand labor and there is no worry of the service staff at all. These ghost kitchens incur lower costs by eliminating the need for front-house operations, seating arrangements, high rent in prime locations.
2) Better Efficiency
Ghost kitchens can be run very efficiently using the custom-built spaces and thus allows for optimizing processes. If several brands are operating together, then batch prepping ingredients is a great way to use several different menus and design the kitchen to prioritize the speed of preparation. This in turn fastens the process of handing over the meals to delivery partners.
3) Real-time Data Monitoring
The very foundation of cloud kitchens are designed and built keeping tech in mind. The technological advancements can help cloud kitchen optimize process, staff scheduling based on demand. The menu items can also be optimized to adapt to demands thereby optimizing costs over time.
At the pace at which the restaurant industry is growing, cloud kitchens are definitely the next big thing. It allows to serve good food and make it more economical and avoid the challenges of high rentals and investments.
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