Feb 10, 2021
Shane Dunlap/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP
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.