About Cloud Kitchen
The Cloud kitchens are sometimes also known as online Restaurant , Ghost kitchens, Dark kitchens , Virtual kitchens , Commissary kitchens, Shared kitchens and Online Kitchen
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A cloud kitchen is a concept of delivery only restaurant with no physical space, no dine-in space or takeaway counter. It is a restaurant kitchen that accepts delivery only orders without a traditional restaurant or dining-in facility. Customers can place their orders through online food aggregator apps like Zomato, Swiggy or UberEat or the restaurant app.
Advantages of Cloud Kitchen
No Investment Business
A cloud kitchen can be designed to be a very lean operation - with less staff and infrastructure, enabling for a low-risk venture. The initial investment required for starting a cloud kitchen is quite less as compared to a traditional restaurant
Low Costs of infrastructure & Operational
a lot of the operating costs incurred by traditional restaurants are done away with cloud Kitchen. Be it infrastructure costs, overheads cost, logistics cost, etc., cloud kitchens incur lower costs and have an edge over the traditional Restaurant.
Lesser Human Resources Required
Since you don’t need a restaurant at a prime location or hire staff to serve customers, it takes only one-third of the time and resources to open a cloud kitchen as compared to a traditional dine-in restaurant.
High-Profit Venture
It is possible to start a cloud kitchen with less staff, minimal kitchen equipment, no furniture cost, no décor cost. Thus, it gives restaurant operators the flexibility to experiment, cut down on the overheads, and quickly reach operating breakeven making it a profitable venture.
Easy Expansion
As the operation is just limited to a kitchen, the total Capex cost is much lower than a full-fledged restaurant. Restaurants can leverage the scale of cloud kitchens to test new geographies and consumer adoption without investing in infrastructure.