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It's really bewildering when this happens. I've accidentally picked up food from one of these places and I nearly could not find it. It was a faceless nondescri

by asdff 4y ago

It's really bewildering when this happens. I've accidentally picked up food from one of these places and I nearly could not find it. It was a faceless nondescript commercial building that looked abandoned until I saw someone else walk out the door with their food order. Then I walked in and the place looked like some industrial building versus a restaurant. There was just cement floor in a small room, and I gave my order through a metal lined hole in the wall and they gave me my bag. Very oddly, in the background, I noticed Chic Fil A also being prepared in this ghost kitchen by people in tshirts. Such a strange concept. I made sure to never order food from a place that wasn't a brick and mortar again, and to call up restaurants directly.

MockObject 4y ago
> I made sure to never order food from a place that wasn't a brick and mortar again What's wrong with food from a ghost kitchen?
- dangrossman 4y ago
  In my experience, it's inferior in every way, perhaps because they have no accountability the same way a standalone restaurant has. For example, a pizza place near me opened multiple ghost kitchens, including a Saladworks and Guy Fieri's Flavortown. There's no Saladworks if you visit their address, just the pizza place. They offer the same menu as Saladworks, the chain of fast service salad shops, but don't have the same supplier or training or equipment as a Saladworks. This pizza place just attempts to recreate the same salads using inferior ingredients, pizza toppings, generic dressings, and generic plastic takeout containers. The result doesn't taste like a Saladworks salad and is smaller than a Saladworks salad. I've tried it twice and neither recreation of Saladworks was faithful, missing ingredients both times, with a different lettuce mix than Saladworks uses, etc. There's no Guy Fieri restaurant if you visit their address either. The food from this brand of the ghost kitchen is just inedible. It has 5 reviews on Yelp locally so far, and all are one star. They're microwaving burgers, sending out raw pasta, sending out easy mac with pizza toppings as a fancy loaded mac & cheese, using the same generic plastic takeout containers they do for Saladworks. And yet at least they have a brand to burn. What I was actually frustrated with in my comment a few levels up is the places that list their own menu, sliced and diced in different ways, under 20+ different names. If someone complains about the quality of "Simply Crepes", they can just remove that listing, since those crepes are also available under "Morning Times Cafe", "Morning Breakfast Sandwich Bar", "The Daily Fare", "The Coffee Creperey", etc.
- asdff 4y ago
  It tasted like it cost about $6 too much for what it was

by asdff 4y ago

MockObject 4y ago

> I made sure to never order food from a place that wasn't a brick and mortar again What's wrong with food from a ghost kitchen?

dangrossman 4y ago
In my experience, it's inferior in every way, perhaps because they have no accountability the same way a standalone restaurant has. For example, a pizza place near me opened multiple ghost kitchens, including a Saladworks and Guy Fieri's Flavortown. There's no Saladworks if you visit their address, just the pizza place. They offer the same menu as Saladworks, the chain of fast service salad shops, but don't have the same supplier or training or equipment as a Saladworks. This pizza place just attempts to recreate the same salads using inferior ingredients, pizza toppings, generic dressings, and generic plastic takeout containers. The result doesn't taste like a Saladworks salad and is smaller than a Saladworks salad. I've tried it twice and neither recreation of Saladworks was faithful, missing ingredients both times, with a different lettuce mix than Saladworks uses, etc. There's no Guy Fieri restaurant if you visit their address either. The food from this brand of the ghost kitchen is just inedible. It has 5 reviews on Yelp locally so far, and all are one star. They're microwaving burgers, sending out raw pasta, sending out easy mac with pizza toppings as a fancy loaded mac & cheese, using the same generic plastic takeout containers they do for Saladworks. And yet at least they have a brand to burn. What I was actually frustrated with in my comment a few levels up is the places that list their own menu, sliced and diced in different ways, under 20+ different names. If someone complains about the quality of "Simply Crepes", they can just remove that listing, since those crepes are also available under "Morning Times Cafe", "Morning Breakfast Sandwich Bar", "The Daily Fare", "The Coffee Creperey", etc.
asdff 4y ago
It tasted like it cost about $6 too much for what it was