ghost kitchen

[gohst kich-uhn]

noun

1. a commercial facility that prepares and cooks restaurant-style food for delivery directly to customers or to one or more dine-in restaurants.

   Your order may have been cooked in a low-grade, or even totally unregulated, ghost kitchen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ghost kitchen¹

First recorded in 2015–20

Example Sentences

Charlie opens a ghost kitchen and insists on being called “chef,” his apron knotted tight like he’s about to sear duck breast instead of, say, boil milksteak.

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And maybe that’s part of what makes their ghost kitchen in the new season feel so strangely poignant: for once, they’re trying — however misguidedly — to do something normal.

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They visit “Abbott Elementary” in the second of two planned crossover episodes with that ABC sitcom; they head to a dog track; Charlie opens up a ghost kitchen in his apartment to make Frank a smashburger; and, as is teased in the trailer, Frank goes on “The Golden Bachelor.”

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Echo Park Eats is a ghost kitchen, a meal preparation hub for app-based delivery orders.

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Another solution presented by Soto-Martínez would use geofencing technology to immediately keep drivers at least 1,000 feet from the ghost kitchen, prohibiting drivers from loitering on the block while they wait to claim a delivery.

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