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by 20years 2219 days ago
Are there any food service establishments out there that solely focus on delivery? No walk-ins, no dining in but only delivery? Their staff would pretty much consist of cooks and delivery employees and the facility would be big enough for a kitchen and prep area.

I would think a setup like that with good food would do well in this new reality we are in.

I imagine it would challenging for a restaurant to focus on a good dine-in experience alongside a good delivery service, especially considering the low margins.

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Yes, I’d split them in two types in the markets where Deliveroo operates:

* existing restaurants (or food trucks) that were identified as promising by the Deliveroo; there’s a program to help them grow and the most common step is to lend them spaces in delivery-only kitchen. The key thing is to have a menu that is meant for that, so the food and the containers can survive a 20-minute ride. Some use the same brand; other create a different one for delivery only. Compared to the experience of getting a loan from a bank to open a second restaurant with a front-of-house in a busy street and having to commute between the two without experience is managing a kitchen remotely, that program was described as far sensical and likely to succeed.

* restaurants that were designed with that idea from scratch. Taster is a start-up (founded by Anton who ran the afore-mentioned program for Deliveroo in France). They identify concepts that would work, develop, finance and grow those brands from scratch. I believe that the idea is working really well.

Yes, Cloud kitchens. Guess who has the most high profile one?
Travis?
Yep