Access Toronto ghost kitchens and join the restaurant revolution

Ghost kitchens, also known as dark kitchens or virtual kitchens, are commercial kitchens built for food delivery. They’re located within the delivery radius of a high volume of online customers, rather than high foot traffic areas. With ghost kitchens, there’s no physical storefront or dining area, so you only need a few back-of-house staff members to fulfill online orders.

In a ghost kitchen, your restaurant is focused on delivery rather than dine-in. When eaters order your food online, you’ll prepare it from your ghost kitchen, and hand it off to a fulfillment team to get the order over to the right delivery driver. This gives restaurateurs a low cost, high efficiency model to get the most out of delivery.

Yes, ghost kitchens can be profitable. Ghost kitchens allow restaurateurs to increase profitability by maintaining the essential elements of a restaurant while cutting costs on labor, overhead, and wasted food while reaching a higher volume of customers ordering online. Plus, you can run multiple virtual brands out of a single ghost kitchen to increase revenue without the extra overhead.

Ghost kitchens are rising in popularity because they’re a lower cost alternative to operating a traditional restaurant. They’re also focused on delivery, which has grown 300% faster than dine-in since 2014. That means restaurateurs are using ghost kitchens to future-proof their business and accelerate growth.

Ghost kitchens help restaurateurs grow their business by doing delivery right. The way we dine has changed, and ghost kitchens allow restaurant operators to capture food delivery demand without sacrificing their bottom line. They’re also a great way to expand to new markets without spending time and money on a traditional restaurant buildout. You can easily expand your restaurant brand to different cities across the country such as Los Angeles or New York.

The cost of ghost kitchens varies by market, space, and services. Compared to a traditional restaurant, they’re a much lower cost alternative on both upfront capital and ongoing operating costs. You can get started in a ghost kitchen with as little as $30K, instead of $1M+ for brick and mortar buildout.

To set up a ghost kitchen Toronto will love, you’ll need a kitchen space that accommodates a basic professional layout. This typically includes various industry-standard sinks, storage spaces, and hoods. Your Toronto commercial kitchen or ghost kitchen will also require permitting and licenses, which we help navigate. 

Beyond the cooking space itself, finding a premium location for your Toronto dark kitchen is key. It’s important to pay attention to food delivery pickup locations and networks when thinking about logistics for Toronto ghost kitchens. When you sign up for a Toronto virtual kitchen with CloudKitchens, we put you right in the middle of our carefully selected culinary hubs. With easy integration and partnering with food delivery apps, your team handles the on-site fulfillment and we help handle the delivery order system so you can focus on the food.

With CloudKitchens Toronto, you can kickstart your delivery business with as little as $30k upfront—three times less than the $1 million+ startup costs of a traditional Toronto brick-and-mortar restaurant. More profit potential, fewer costs, and just the right amount of space for restaurant operators looking to expand their business.