英和和英

名詞

dark kitchen (plural dark kitchens)

1. (appliance, neologism, cooking, business) A commercial kitchen where restaurant-style meals are cooked for delivery.

   Synonyms: ghost kitchen, ghost restaurant, cloud kitchen

   Coordinate term: dark store

   • 2015, Shonali Advani, “Mast Kalandar owner Spring Leaf Retail investing in delivery only kitchens to boost MK Dabbawala”, in Economic Times‎:

     “We were using some of our restaurant kitchens, but are now investing into more delivery-only or ‘dark’ kitchens, as we were not able to service the growing demand,” Jain said.

   • 2018 June 5, Sarah Finch, “The rise of the dark kitchen”, in Disruption Hub‎, archived from the original on 6 June 2020:

     As a result of unfavourable market conditions for bricks and mortar restaurants, dark kitchens, also known as ghost restaurants, are becoming more common.

   • 2019 April 23, Rebecca Wearn, “Does your dinner come from a ‘dark kitchen’?”, in BBC News‎:

     Dark kitchens make huge sense for the burger brand Boo. Set up by Arif Palejwala and his brother-in-law in Leicester, they have reached three other cities without having to find premises or fork out.

   • 2020, Isabelle Hanet, “What is a dark kitchen?”, in Deliverect‎:

     It is the success of online ordering players such as Uber Eats, Glovo, Just Eat and many more that paved the way for dark kitchens.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark,‎ kitchen.
   • 1998, Herrick Kimball, The Kitchen Consultant, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     [I]f your dark kitchen adjoins a room with an abundance of natural light, it might work to remove the separating wall to let some of the light in  […]

   • 2006, Poppy Z. Brite, Soul Kitchen: A Novel, Crown, →ISBN, page 237:

     He was already fleeing back through the dark kitchen, banging his hip on the steel countertop, […]

派生した語

• → French: dark kitchen

参考

Further reading

• ghost kitchen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia