Grubhub, website/web portal orders, and/or calls to generate sales. As of July 2020, it was estimated that China accounted for more than 7,500 ghost kitchens. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom had a much smaller estimate of 750 operational ghost kitchens.
A ghost kitchen, otherwise known as a dark kitchen, cloud kitchen, or virtual restaurant is a restaurant that does not provide dine-in or takeaway services to customers. It is primarily virtual and is reliant on food delivery apps, such as Number of ghost kitchens in selected countries worldwide as of July 2020
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- Basic Statistic Number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in the UK since April 2020
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- Number of event catering and other food service enterprises in Norway 2008-2018
- Distribution of catering sales in Hungary 2023, by commodity group
- Matsuya Food's operating income FY 2015-2023
- Turnover of accommodation and food service activities in Italy 2016-2018, by sector
- Average price of a main course in the UK 2016, by outlet type
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