Calling all ice cream lovers. Promising the “best banana split of your life,” Valley Dairy Restaurant training manager Joe Wyant took a few minutes out of his increasingly busy schedule Thursday to provide details on the upcoming May 1 grand opening in Allegheny Township. “It’s original strawberry and vanilla hand-dipped
A new family-style restaurant is coming to Allegheny Township. Valley Dairy Restaurant plans to set up shop in the former Kings Family Restaurant at 315 Hyde Park Road. Kings permanently closed at 
2 p.m. Feb. 5 without advance notice to staff and customers. Known for its “You Never Had It
Feb 10, 2021
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Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone prepares a taco order at Valley Dairy Restaurant, Thursday, Jan. 28, in Latrobe, Pa., as part of their new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joeâs.
LATROBE, Pa. (AP) For those who believe, ghosts come in a wide variety of forms: floating orbs of light, haunting voices or, as in the opinion of famed fictional ghostbuster Raymond Stantz, “a full-torso, free-floating apparition.”
As it turns out, so do “ghost kitchens”: food-world phantoms that put emphasis on flavor rather than fright. A ghost kitchen, or virtual restaurant, uses an existing business to create a new menu available almost exclusively through delivery, and frequently through third-party delivery services such as DoorDash, GrubHub, Postmates, Seamless and Uber Eats.
A ghost kitchen, or virtual restaurant, uses an existing business to create a new menu available almost exclusively through delivery, and frequently through third-party delivery services.