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.
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone prepares a taco order Thursday at Valley Dairy in Unity as part of the restaurant’s new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s.
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone, an employee of the restaurant since he was a high school student, grabs a Door Dash order for tacos that just came in on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at Valley Dairy in Unity as part of their new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s.
Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review
Alex Blystone, general manager at Valley Dairy, puts the final topping of guacamole onto a burrito bowl order for a Door Dash customer on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at Valley Dairy in Latrobe. The burrito bowl and tacos are part of Valley Dairy’s new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s, which can be ordered through Door Dash.