We mapped out the ghost kitchens run by ex-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchen and competitor REEF Technology. See where the battle for ghost kitchen dominance is heating up.

Ghost kitchen startups are scooping up empty warehouses and parking lots around the US. Stephan Zirwes/Getty Images Matt Newberg is the founder of HNGRY, a subscription media platform exploring the overlap of food and technology through trends like ghost kitchens, dark stores, and more. Newberg writes that up-and-coming ghost kitchen startup CloudKitchens is spending spends hundreds of millions of dollars converting old industrial warehouses around the US into dozens of individual kitchen spaces.  REEF Technology is another ghost kitchen startup that operates delivery-only restaurant kitchen trailers and deploys them in parking lots across the country. "CloudKitchens is more like an Amazon fulfillment center, while REEF is more like a 7-Eleven," explains Newberg. This difference allows REEF to access more locations by volume but gives CloudKitchen has an advantage in overall scale. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Over the past three years, Travis Kalanick, the ousted founder CEO of Uber, has been quietly purchasing real estate in major cities across the country while simultaneously investing in ghost kitchen business internationally for his ghost kitchen startup, CloudKitchens. While CloudKitchens got an early start, in 2019.

United States of America · 26 Dec 2020

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