Kitchen United

Kitchen United is a ghost kitchen company based in Pasadena, California,[3] providing equipped professional kitchen space to restaurants for the preparation of delivery-only meals.[4] This allows bricks and mortar restaurants to expand their food delivery business without adding extra staff or space and allows the creation of restaurants with no dine-in service.[5] In addition to commercial kitchen space, it provides back of house automation and ordering software that accommodates the main delivery services (DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, etc.).[6][7]

KitchenUnited
Private
IndustryRestaurants, ghost kitchen
FoundedPasadena, California
(May 2017)[1]
HeadquartersPasadena, Chicago
Key people
Jim Collins (CEO)
Massimo Noja De Marco (co-founder)
Meredith Sandland (COO)
Number of employees
82 (2019)[2]
Websitewww.kitchenunited.com

The company was initially funded by GV (formerly Google Ventures), which invested $10 million. GV also contributed to a $40-million series B round of funding that included Fidelity Investments, G Squared Capital and RXR Realty.[8][9]

References
  1. "California Business Search" (PDF). businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/. Secretary of State of California. May 15, 2017. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
  2. "Kitchen United Company Profile". Craft. Retrieved December 9, 2019.
  3. Upton, Nicholas (June 14, 2018). "Kitchen United Opens First of Many Shared Kitchens". foodondemandnews.com. Franchise Times. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  4. Yaffe-Bellany, David; Isaac, Mike (August 19, 2019). "In These Restaurants, Every Order is To_go". New York Times Company. pp. B1. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  5. Patton, Leslie (15 May 2019). "Food Delivery Boom Means Sandwiches Don't Come From Restaurants Now". Bloomberg LLC. Retrieved 10 November 2019. “There’s no reason why you can’t virtualize what a restaurant is,” Collins says.
  6. Ruggless, Ron (March 5, 2019). "Kitchen United COO talks broad horizon for off-premise". NRN.com. Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  7. Bradshaw, Tim (21 May 2019). "The start-ups building 'dark kitchens' for Uber Eats and Deliveroo". FINANCIAL TIMES LTD. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  8. Amore, Samson (September 19, 2019). "Kitchen United Raises $40 Million Series B". LAbusinessjournal.com. Los Angeles Business Journal. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  9. O’Flanagan, Linda (September 17, 2019). "Rechler cooks up 'ghost kitchen' deal for New York buildings". rew-online.com. Hagedorn Publications. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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