Nourish your customers and business with a ghost kitchen in Minneapolis

Simple and savvy, your Minneapolis ghost kitchen is the key to a successful food delivery-only business.

Why open ghost kitchens in Minneapolis?

$21

Average basket size

The average basket size at our Minneapolis ghost kitchen locations is $21, meaning more online revenue for your restaurant business.

3.4K

Deliveries per week

Tap into more online delivery demand at our Minneapolis dark kitchen locations with an average of 3,460 deliveries per week.

40mins.

Average delivery time

Our Minneapolis ghost kitchens are built for efficiency, with the logistics and delivery support you need to deliver more orders faster.

5

Delivery platforms available

Maximize your reach online with 5 delivery platforms to choose from.

HOW WE COMPARE

Ghost kitchens versus traditional restaurants

Brick & Mortar

Ghost Kitchens

Real Estate

2000ft2

High cost, high traffic address

200ft2

Same area, low cost low traffic address

Staff required (~)

24

Many dedicated to front-of-house

4

We provide staff to handle all order handoffs and more

Weeks to launch 1 location

52weeks

10 locations 5-10 years

8weeks*

Multiple locations 1 year

Upfront investment

$1M

High investment

$30k**

Low investment

Break even

5y

10% profit on 1M run rate

6m

10% profit on 1M run rate

* Varies based on local permitting and operational complexity

Kitchen specs

All you need and more under the hood

Mexican / Latin

Kitchen Specs

All you need and more under the hood

Space

  • Private kitchen

  • Driver pickup area

  • Staff locker area

  • Restrooms

  • Mop wash

Services

  • Order pickup & processing

  • Safety & health inspections

  • Cleaning & maintenance

  • Courier handoff

  • Delivery software

  • Delivery logistics

  • Extraction & ventilation

  • On-site support staff

Equipment

*Additional fees apply
  • 3 compartment sink

  • Prep sink

  • Hand sink

  • Commercial hood

  • Tablet

  • Grease-trap / interceptor*

Utilities

  • Gas points

  • Power outlets

  • High power lighting

  • Cold & hot water lines

  • Gas / fire safety system

  • WiFi

  • Trash / recycle

  • Ethernet connections

  • Grease / trap cleaning

  • Hood / flue cleaning

  • Pest control

Technology

Our software is made for restauranteurs, chefs, and culinary teams to grow their business and manage their orders.

Are ghost kitchens worth the investment?

The rise of ghost kitchens

The golden age of food delivery has arrived. And with that, comes 54M delivery app users and a market estimated to reach a net worth of $1.65T by 2027. Ghost kitchens are providing restaurateurs with a lower-risk alternative to a traditional brick and mortar by cutting labor costs and the overall upfront investment to get started.

With dedicated kitchen space built for delivery, these lower cost, tech-enabled locations set you and your restaurant up for delivery success, making it easy to get up and running in less time.

With over 8,000 ghost kitchen locations in the US alone, chances are there is a ghost kitchen in your neighborhood. At CloudKitchens, we find the best possible ghost kitchen location that captures the most delivery demand, at the lowest cost.

As more hungry customers turn to delivery for their next meal, it is becoming even more vital to have a delivery strategy in place for your restaurant business.

Unlock new trends emerging in food delivery, new AI tech to take advantage of, and how to tap into this booming industry with our latest trend guide.

Unlock the inside scoop on the rise of ghost kitchens.

2 ghost kitchen locations

Our Minneapolis facilities are located in the heart of delivery demand, providing you with exclusive access to more online customers.

29 total ghost kitchens

Our Minneapolis facilities are equipped with a variety of kitchen layouts to best fit your restaurant needs.

250 sq ft cooking spaces

Choose from a variety of kitchen spaces or open up multiple kitchens to test out new concepts.

Delivery and pickup in high traffic areas

With prime locations near high concentrations of delivery demand in Minneapolis, you're able to easily drive more pickup and delivery business to your restaurant.

The Minneapolis food scene

Spaghetti - ghost kitchen

CloudKitchens is the simple alternative to sit-down eateries that often waste precious space, time, and money. Our delivery-only kitchens are set up instead for restaurateur success, offering an affordable, convenient, and wide-reaching business model. 

With a Minneapolis ghost kitchen, your business can launch in weeks, instead of the months or even years it takes to build a brick-and-mortar restaurant. Our low-capital, efficient buildout process means you as a chef can start cooking ASAP—no waiting on construction blueprints or business loans. You bring your cooking skills, and we open the kitchen door.

While a shared Minneapolis commissary kitchen space may be located on the outskirts of town, ghost kitchens are only placed in central locations with plenty of delivery traffic, so you can reach more households and eager customers. Even better, our commercial kitchens can host multiple enterprises, meaning you can serve different menus from one location to even more virtual kitchen customers.

While you focus on flavor profiles and ingredients, our Minneapolis ghost kitchen options include the operational services you need, from security and cleaning to utilities and basic equipment. That way, your top focus is cooking, not budgeting. And unlike most brick-and-mortar restaurants, CloudKitchens operations can break even in as few as six months—now that’s a winning recipe.

Delivery-only operations are the future—and so is our proprietary technology. With each Minneapolis commercial kitchen, chefs have access to our exclusive app, which funnels orders from different delivery services into one convenient platform. Your team can also view performance data reports, helping you tweak your business for peak success.

Leave behind the brick-and-mortar obstacles that weigh down traditional restaurants with CloudKitchens in Minneapolis. Between affordable payments and easy access to customers, our delivery kitchens are today’s smart choice for tomorrow’s success. 

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