Do they? I’m looking at a virtual restaurant right now on door dash that is not labeled

​@@ShaneBarbera might be a local legislation thing

really? that's what got me to uninstall doordash like, two years ago, so i may go back if they do label them now. thx!

I'm assuming it marks the "factory style" ghost kitchens, not ghost kitchens run in an already existing restaurant

I’m looking at Mr beast burger on door dash now and it’s not marked. I also looked at some places that are run out of those big 40 restaurant mega kitchens and those are not marked either. Am I looking in the wrong place? I’m in San Jose, California for context

Bro, I’m in Mexico and you can get like 30 crazy delicious tacos for that money

And sadly, people will pay that.

Normal in Australia, and that's often just for the burger, no sides. Plus it usually takes two hours to get cold food. I stopped ordering quite some time ago.

@@fennec2395mexican here too,in my city we have a taco place that sold them for 7 pesos a piece,now it’s around 11 but still great😊

and then taking one bite of every one

These are microwave foods also, we as direct seen them cook it. Most of the stuff comes prepacked then they have airfare type microwave an then assemble box up an that’s it.

@@putjesusfirst9217yea those cod sandwiches were clearly microwave food LMFAO what TF….just stop

@@thereturnofthemac The issue is that they flood the entirety of the online food market, large companies drowning out small businesses. Literally missed the entire point.

@@thereturnofthemac Wich does not makes it okay.

It rlly is tho

with the slight added benefit that it's still being worked on by local labourers instead of taiwanese child slaves

​@CErra310 well we dont know much the ghost cooks are getting paid, they are probably minimum wage, also i doubt you can use a name of a ghost kitchen as a reference when looking for a new job

Eh. Honestly, I am cool with it. More competition is better as long as they're not owned by bigger companies. Less competition allows larger corporations to maintain a strict leash on the market and trust me, you do not want that.

@@SinlowMusic Disagree. This is a race to the bottom.

Felt the same when I discovered my local "Mr. Beast Burger" is being served by Perkins.

You want authentic chiense food? Go to china and enjoy the salmonella

@@jijitters Mine is in a Huddle House..

@@BeccaBearSc Ruby Tuesdays for Me, and I only know this because a friend was confused as fuck when he started doing doordash

Not a delivery person, but I used Doordash to lookup resturants and yeah! It was weird seeing places I had never heard of, only to see "oh wait thats in TGI Fridays, iHop, Frendly's. - Pretty much any chain restaurant that makes a variety of things.

no literally i thought theres no way the number could get higher

44 goddamn restaurants in one building. I think he said 77 in his area total? Goodness

@@kingsrevenge9234 no

@@thecole_ do not engage with bots. They only exist for engagement.

Instructions unclear... Maximum flabbergast exceeded... My eyebrows are now caught in the ceiling fan, send help

Can’t fool the IRS… stealing your money is what the government does best.

All the more reason to not buy Starbucks. 😀 Not shaming anyone who does. We all get to decide what we like and where we spend.

I like to call them Suckerbucks.

Yeah, I was surprised no one recognized him

He's the perfect focus group kind of dude

@@user-xe2hf6fi8dyou’d be surprised- but at the same time later realize that not everyone even has even touched youtube, let alone know a specific youtube that does variety comedy. It’d be like if I was in the same room as Micheal from Vsauce- I might just think he looks like him if anything unless I watch every one of his videos. They aren’t like celebrities talked about in the media, they have a fanbase that avid watchers could easily discern him, but anything less they just pass of as another person.

Thats actually just his day job

It's the most jacksflims thing to do

your still alive hope everything in live is going well

Miss you man I hope eventually when your feeling better and in the right mindset you come back into making content, if not I totally understand and wish you the best !!! ❤️

❤❤❤❤

Hope you're doing well ❤️

@Llify he’s been away for a while and a lot of Fans have been worried, including me.

So?

I can totally see a future where VDC owning a monopoly on delivery and takeaway without getting taxed properly

Lmao, okay. 😂😂.

Those who want an experience will get out of their homes to be there. Do you offer anything special?

The only problem with ghost kitchens is flooding the apps with their clones. They should be held accountable for it in the platforms. The apps should aim to offer this transparency and protection to their customers.

this! also it serves to put pressure on real local restaurants to pay the delivery apps more money to get priority placement on the app or risk being drowned by the dozens of ghost restaurants.

The CCP strategy for territorial expansion.

There's a really terrible pizza place near my home that takes up like 8 slots, all selling the same menu of pizzas under different names. I'm not a pizza snob; when I say the pizza is bad, I mean like, these are some seriously cheap-ingredients being used. I like delivery apps that let me "sort by distance" partly because I can more easily pick out which scuzzballs are doing the "slot squatting" thing.

They are taking up “shelf space”. It’s a concept used in physical retail for decades.

This feels wierd coming from someone with a Wendy's pfp

SAME AHAHS suddenly he was just- there.

can you imagine you go for a focus group and it's just casually run by Jack lmaooo I'd lose my mind

Ah hell nah did bro really just call him jacksfilms bro it's jjjacksfillms

I 😅 .j. I

​@@dizo-jp2tdyoure the type of person (or bot) that turns people against your religion by constantly shoving down our throats

Good on you for being conscientious.

Funny thing is people hate big corpo for being identity fluid and giving them food they enjoyed. They knew you hated them and just turned that hate to profits and gave you something to love. Brilliant. Sure it's deception but anywhere else it's praised. The health inspections could end up bad though. If they just make a new online restaurant to get around it that ain't good. That kinda deception is an even greater risk most wont ignore.

And Chuck E Cheese is like the worst pizza out there

wait are you from new orleans?

That dayumn Carlos E Queso!

Isn’t Pasqually the guy in the Chuck E. Cheese band

@@marmalar Y*

Imagine if Eddy was called to give testimonials in front of Congress about ghost kitchens or something

Holy shit let's gooooo

@theVergeRemnant Journos just using ai now lol. Ghost journos.

From The Verge, which links to the WSJ article and Uber Eats new How To Start a Virtual Restaurant page, which has their new policies and guidelines near the bottom of the page. " Uber Eats now requires locations to have menu items that “are at least 60% different” from any other virtual restaurants “operating from that same physical location.” The same goes for the brand’s “parent restaurant,” or the kitchen that houses the virtual brands. Additionally, Uber will now require the ghost kitchen and its parent restaurant to maintain a 4.3-star rating or higher on the app, have 5 percent or fewer orders that they have canceled, and have a 5 percent or lower inaccurate orders rate. Uber notes that it “reserves the right to remove VRs from the Uber Platforms that are not in compliance.” "

I am so overjoyed and beyond surprised to see that something is actually being done about a major problem in this country for once in every other blue moon

Why would anybody want to be a food delivery boy??

true lol

Literally came here to say this I thought I was going insane lol

that threw me for a loop 💀💀

Jack is that guy

Why is that funny?

Holy shit the Defunctland video blew my mind, too. I hope that Eddy features more of his pals in videos. A very pleasant surprise!

I love eddy’s viewers and how we all get this reference 💀

Darn shame this video doesn't include a chapter on the Dillon family, so it's automatically worse.

this but its when defunct land revealed that the music they were using for the entire disney theme video was the same composer

@@liv_hann oh my God. When I tell you the tears that came out of my eyes.. just sobbing. Kevin really put his heart and his soul into that episode. 💜

The whole segment, but especially that, was very reminiscent of Nathan For You.

I love to do food videos while smoking weed on my KZfaq channel, to cure people’s boredom ✨

Yeah I get you I started using door dash two years ago when I moved out and I'd see like "Mr Beast Burger" and I thought "fucking where is this!?" Then I'd look it up and it's just in a Chili's I was like "!?!?" Edit: ok posted this before watching the video I did not know Chili's was gonna be a running gag but I'm glad it is

Literally same omg 😭i love meltdown tho that shit is fire

"The meltdown" may also lead you to my bathroom after ording 9 cod sandwhiches, sorry man

@@SevenHunnid you actually have a pretty good idea for youtube videos i feel like spamming on youtube comments isn’t the best place to find viewers on videos like these maybe scout out channels if your gonna do it that have something major in common but i feel like your videos could blow up if it got the right recognition

Don't you have to tap on it, scroll past whatever group discount there is and then find it?

Unfortunately not all of them have it

I noticed this too! Not all of them have it but far more do. I live in an area where it's easier to spot because it's smaller but hopefully it becomes mandatory

i read eddy as daddy and just took it as normal until i saw it twice

​@@JustHyden 😅⁸

Can't taste through the ass

That, and the ego of the American consumer. We’re all obsessed with things being niche, customizable, etc… The fact someone can stick their nose up to an iHop menu, while simultaneously ordering and enjoying food from the iHop menu says a lot.

Wait really???

@@DanKnowsNothing lol i have no idea what they're talking about, i just went on and it's not labeled at all

@@LSSTmusic they actually did! i looked up mr beast burger on the app and it said “virtual brand”, other ones had it too :) edit: spelling

I guess this is how misinformation gets spread so easily. This lie, which so many people could simply pull out their phone and check, gets upvoted.... why. I wonder if this is some shady tactic to convince people that ghost kitchens are labeled so if they don't see a label (which doesn't exist, checked both the app and the website) then it's a local place. Makes sense with the topic of them kinda being deceptive in the video... anyways, doordash doesn't have any indication that a ghost kitchen (it's just wings) is a ghost kitchen, unless you choose pickup which tells you you'll have to go to chili's. Edit: so after a bit more digging, it appears there are two "categories" of ghost kitchens, one's like Mr Beast Burgers, which are not affiliated with any particular brand, and MBB is labeled in the app. However, the other category, which is ghost kitchens that are rebranded well-known chains (such as it's just wings, the meltdown, maggiano's etc) are not labeled. So while not and outright lie (i apologize, retracting that bit) it's still quite misleading, and still don't trust that no label means not ghost kitchen.

​@@LSSTmusic it might take a while to roll out. some apps will only release an update for a small group of people to test it out before releasing it officially. If they do, I hope they also give the option to filter them out bc I am sick of seeing thrilled cheese at the top of my list

😂😂😂😂

That is the funniest shit I've heard

Grilled Ford Tough 😂

How much was the dealer prep?

@@notgray88 You win the comments.

Ohohoh no! Patented Skinner cod sandwiches, old family recipe!

Exact same number I guessed, and then I got concerned when he left the fourth corner of the screen empty.

I guessed 10 bro, is this ego death?

I guessed 40 but even I wasn't exact

I guessed 10 and thought i was cool. :(

I guessed 5 :(

That's what I was thinking. It's essentially money laundering but with bad reviews

Oh shit you’re right

same shit as airbnb ff just be deleting bad listings and popping out new ones

This is why they also double as a 10/10 data harvesting method for Mr.Beasts company/corp lmao

lol if they just use thermal printer stickers then it literally costs them nothing to rebrand as they're printed off only when needed

I was wondering if this would happen. It seems on the cards

It can feel good to work for your money

i did not expect to see you here xidnaf lmao

perhaps the time has come for another 3 minute video on an arbitrary but nonetheless interesting subject

Yeah but your body will love you in 25+ years for making money not wearing your back, knees, and hips out etc.

Lol yea people love to not work and just expect a check lame

Same! I was so confused trying to find restaurants that didn’t exist, like why am I at chillis rn 😭

​@@amberpalettes8382 I google the address before I head out and if its already labeled as a different restaurant I instantly know this business has a "ghost kitchen" in it

THIS. It’s so confusing, especially since I usually dash after dark (dash after dark sounds like a band name). One time, an order took me to a really sketchy-looking building in the middle of nowhere (that I can now only assume is a ghost kitchen) at night and I ended up just cancelling the order 😅

@@maddyh.3447 you gotta be careful out there, sometimes people will setup fake places so they can rob people who go out there.

mybe door dash needs to add some notes to restaurant locations to share with others ect. its not like they have a platform that can benefit from this??? silly door dash

Oh, she was also required to have a commissary, which I'm sure everyone else utilizes.

I’ve found a few here in New Orleans that are just houses!

Just so you know， China been doing it for years， this concept is noway new. So is food delivery app and scan payment. you be surprised just how many NEW CONCEPT are tested by the Chinese market and the US adapted to its.

@@zdal7742 🙄 wow y’know what. That doesn’t change fuckin anything. Cool factoid jerry

It's a slippery slope for the common person. It's an escalator for the corporations behind this shit.

Honestly, if they said they were a ghost kitchen and where they ran out of I'd respect it more and if it was ran out of a small local businesses kitchen I wouldn't mind supporting it. This is why I always look up the address and yelp and google reviews of any place I've never eaten at. I'm a cheapskate and I hate wasting money on something that looks good and its shit and then I look up reviews and everyone says its bad and it has 2.5 stars on everything. If I see a weird food place i've never heard of and its address is a standalone chilis, yeah I'll pass. I'd rather just eat chili's and not deceptive marketing.

​@@zdal7742 china doing it makes it more shady and I hate it more thanks 🤣

I totally understand this 😅 I work for a breakfast-based restaurant and we have like only 5 other ghost kitchens. It’s super stressful for new cooks to be learning 6 new menus while dealing with understaffing. I’ve seen things just thrown together last minute bc of the immense stress within the restaurant plus all the other online restaurant orders on top it. It’s totally overworking the cooks who don’t get paid for it while also ripping people off bc that shit just isn’t cheap here.

WHy should they just pay you more? It is your job to negotiate your wage and make what you are worth... Even if it means leaving lol.

@@Squat5000 My husband works as a cook with me and they WILL NOT give him a raise. He’s also currently unable to leave due to a visa issue he’s having 😭 We both want him to leave and I only make the $2.13/hour + tips as a waitress but it doesn’t affect me as much as the cooks. I totally agree with you but we’re just kinda stagnant atm.

@@delilahjessop9055 even in a small valley restaurants had 2 choices. Raise prices and wages or shut down because they had no employees

@@Squat5000 This is currently happening 😂 Everyone is leaving and our corporate raised the menu prices by like $2-$3. I’m actually in the process of leaving myself though! Happy to find something more meaningful as a job ☺️

should file a suit and report it to the FDA

Even in random youtube comments we cannot escape the gluten free cabal lol

@@gabrielhowardMKE the what???

@@aphet just ignore him. Another idiot not realizing what food allergies are

@@gabrielhowardMKE ​ you know, the cabal where around 2 million Americans (per the NIH) have this thing with their bodies that limits what kind of food they can safely eat…oh wait, that’s not a cabal, it’s an actual medical diagnosis 🙄

you're not really meeting anyone of the local community when you order from ubereats regardless

My thoughts exactly. After working in the restaurant business cooking for over a decade, this sounds like a nightmare for the cooks. Beyond how many orders they single handedly have to put out, I can't imagine doing the prep for 44 different places. And to top it all off, not even get to see the customers enjoying the food, just sending it out to the thankless void. If a consultant works for multiple businesses at the same time, they get paid for all of them. That is how these cooks should be paid. Working 44 kitchens at once. Get pooped on ghost kitchen owners, you greedy fuddruckers.

That is the general life of line cooks in most commercial kitchens i promise and it sucks.

I truly cannot imagine going to work at Chili's and actually preparing orders not only for my own establishment but also 10 other ghost kitchens online. But then at the end of the night, I still only get a check for one shift because I only technically work at Chili's. Absolutely fucked up. Yet another way to pull a little more money out of the middle and lower class while CEOs keep getting rich

Pssh, I am not surprised at all. Good ol American Capitalism at its finest, exploit the shit out of low-paid workers to maximize profits, this time for the profits of multiple "companies." Imagine that. Like, imagine that you work at a bank, you're a clerk. But, the bank you work at supports 10 different "ghost" banks, and you have to know their banking systems and handle all their customers but you only get paid by ONE parent company bank.

It's actually evil

it’s a shame that solutions for problems like that almost always end up being turned into vehicles for even more profit extraction.

That's really smart of her. Love an intellectual queen

I live in DC! i’d love to support

That actually gives me some hope. This video opened my eyes to a lot of the implications, not just the superficial stuff and the yelp rating avoiding

Yeah I deliver for the apps. I knew about ghost kitchens in existing restaurants but I never thought anything untoward was happening in these places with multiple restaurants because I know a family who uses one a couple days a week when they’re not using their food truck. There seems to be a difference between the city kitchen type places where multiple small restaurants can have a base of operations and the example in the beginning of this vid.

I might be more concerned about it occupying a brick and mortar restaurant and putting an extra load on its service during busy hours.

didnt even think of that!!

given that a single fish sandwich was over sixteen dollars i think you may have a point.

It's just another tactic that the corporatocracy uses to exploit the working class.

Sorry. Home delivered crap food isn't a "vital resource " unless you are 28 or under and incapable of coping with life

Yeah they expect the consumer to pay them with tips I fucking hate that system. And it works too because people feel bad for workers now they are tipping more which they can hardly afford as is.

​@@spagooter1807If you can afford to spend $50 on a delivery, you have the money to tip

@@spagooter1807 tips go to the delivery drivers though, not the cooks. Unless I’m mistaken.

The Amazon warehouse employees of the kitchen world … sounds so horrifying

@@jacksondbrophy9 sometimes, it does depend on the place you are ordering from but it’s genuinely a despicable payment system that everyone in America has bought into. I tip workers but I firmly believe it shouldn’t be necessary or a vital aspect of pay. We have a lot of workers rights to fight for especially with ai coming.

How often do u get lost bc of this?

@@Typicalanimefangirl95 First time it took me 5 minutes of driving around before I got out of the car at the pin on the map to explore. Thankfully I happened upon a waiter from Denny's in the parking lot having a cigarette. I Asked him if he knew where the restaurant was and he sent me inside Denny's. After that I understood to trust the address they sent you to. Not the name on the building and it became easier.

@sarahandy9981 yikes!

Tbh most of it is probably just frozen reheated 🗑. So not a ton of skill or knowledge needed and it'd make sense since the restaurants are operated based on making money rather than actually serving good food.

i feel like the food from a place like that wouldn't really be good, usually resteraunts that have like 5 different cuisines usually aren't great usually. it has to be as other commenters have said re-heated food or a bunch of pre-made food possibly? If it's not frozen food maybe they make the food at the start of the day and then once places start opening up they just re-heat that food and send it out?

Ye

This sounds like a hotbed for employee abuse too, if they're so unmonitored I bet the people working these kitchens are overworked for very little pay.

as someone who worked in a normal restaurant who got 4 ghost kitchens added to it, these kitchens dont work. Multiple places near me including the place i worked at closed because kitchens kill you. Itll be a busy rush and suddenly the chicken place and the sandwich place get 20+ orders combined and your restaurant is on a two hour wait. People stopped showing up to eat and we literally had to close down. The way it would work is we would be serving food as usual and suddenly our tablet would start ringing. One cook would have to stop what they are doing and go to the other grill with a separate cooler and freezer and make the food, because it was given priority. We also couldnt turn it off, so if your cooks are 45 minutes behind, oh well. This resulted in a lot of angry customers leaving. And we dont even get most of the money for the food. Youre trained as if its normal food, you just put it in to go boxes. That really about it tho lol

Dude same! Like I got no instructions or heads up I was going to a ghost kitchen.

same, my boyfriend is a dasher and the ghost kitchens here all go through the IHOP i used to work at. we have "thrilled cheese", "super mega dilla", and "pardon my cheesesteak" which are all so off putting

@@alexandrarainbow520 Exactly! The couple times I’ve gotten ghost kitchens since then, it’ll either have no warning, or it’ll be like “Maggiano’s near Chili’s” like NO IT’S NOT NEAR CHILI’S IT’S IN CHILI’S STOP HURTING MY TENDER LITTLE BRAIN

@@emweebee I’ve noticed the weird names too, they sound like they were generated by a bot. They honestly probably were lol

​@@emweebee Bro. I don't wanna freak you out but.. Cook County??

It's the same thing with food in the grocery store, too. Most of the different food brands you see in the grocery store are owned by just a few massive parent companies.

@@97I30T Yeah… that’s not news. Stop coming from Shane’s video

@@DeathnoteBB Shane? What the hell are you talking about?

@@97I30T There was a Shane Dawson "Conspiracy" video about how Trader Joes is just rebranded items.

@@I_Love_Learning dude they literally just described monopolies in industry that’s not a conspiracy theory lmao

yup! that’s me. it’s especially bad if something is deep fried in the same oil as shellfish - it turns the oil into a concentrated shellfish infusion. it’s like making tea. then that oil soaks into the batter of whatever else is fried in it. i only get deep fried from restaurants that don’t have shellfish, but with ghost kitchens, i won’t be able to know for sure. it could honestly kill me.

This has happened to me. I'm allergic to eggs, fish, peanuts, and treenuts so shit gets wild. I've burned through a bunch of epipens these last few years on takeout I have had many times before and even double checked after the event that triggers weren't present in a way that's dangerous for me. I felt like I was going crazy. At this point chipotle is safe and nothing else is. I was trying to figure out why and this video is making me think I've found the issue...

i imagine that this shouldn't be a concern LEGALLY... as far as i'm aware, every food producer is supposed to disclose if things are made in the same facility as an allergen. as long as the fda is strict on that, things should be okay.. hopefully... lol. then the main issue would be making sure these shared kitchens don't make it so that real restaurants who do have separate kitchens are inaccessible to those with allergens, right ?

@@foxxxyg damn thats so fucked im sorry

The delivery apps should require menu listings to name all possible allergens in a restaurant's kitchen, but Joe Lycett was able to get Uber Eats to allow orders to be placed from a "kitchen" located in a dumpster so I won't hold my breath.

yeah! i didn't even know these existed 😲

What's it like to work inside of a ghost kitchen?

@@x999uuu1 Spooky!?!

You've only known about ghost kitchens for 2 years? Dude I've known about them way longer than that lol.

I’ve heard about ghost kitchens before but I had no clue they went this deep, it’s sad to see especially when small businesses are losing profit because of them

This is my favourite comment on this video.

@@LeatherCladVegan woah thanks! I almost never comment. That's really nice of you to say.

Couldn’t have said it better. Self-serving assholes with egos far larger than their vision or morals

perhaps you should consider sharing more often; we need people like you

I concur, excellent comment. His the nail right on the head.

I'm not super allergic to walnuts, but if I ate one it would basically be the end of me doing anything productive for the day. People with epipens that use them are still suppose to go to emergency.

We were always super careful with the gluten free stuff when I worked at Papa Murphy's. We had to use clean spatulas to add the sauce and had to use ingredients under the line that hadn't been used for the regular pizzas. These ghost kitchens probably aren't nearly as careful, though, if they seriously have to cook for 40 different restaurants.

@@Zeroshiki I did do food prep way back when, and the motto was 1 job 1 knife. It touches nothing until it is cleaned. Obviously it applies to everything, just its easier to remember.

Oof 😂

sis Indian food w celiac is soooo risky 😭

Please be careful out there and carry your epi pen! My brother also has food allergies and this shit is scary

As someone who is not shilling for BK thank you for commenting this!

Make sure you have a Pepsi pen

imagine dying to a nut, but fr be safe

@@hay7501 Ah yes, the one thing every person with allergies needs: P E P S I

id be stealing like crazy

I had the same thing. I worked for a restaurant and they had 3 virtual kitchens within it. I couldn't order anything on it, but we would package the food there. Super Dilla is a good example of one of IHOP's virtual kitchens

Get this woman some waffle fries! D:

@@charliebabyversion exactly, what’s my virtual boss gonna do about it?

Man as a Uber driver you stole my video idea I’ve been thinking some people need to know chiquitos do like 5 different menus. Bao now kick as burritos. Franky and bennies do like 3 bone jam is one of them. It’s crazy man.

this is exactly what I was thinking- no one can hold them accountable for anything. I'm more concerned about what goes in the food that I have no way to know about. American fast food usually has tons of added sugars and what have you, but at least if I look up a chain I can find out how they're cramming millions of calories into a dinky little communion wafer of a burger- there's no finding out what these places are adding, they're not real restaurants, they don't exist, I have no recourse.

At least the delivery apps are good about refunding incorrect orders. For now anyway

The loser is the delivery driver who gets no tip and a bad review.

Okay I thought I was crazy thinking that was him, thank you

@@sucyshi you can’t mistake that forehead as anyone else’s

@@variumi LMAO

Yeah, there needs to be a Jacksfilms content warning on this video

Makes sense. My mom was engaged in a pyramid scheme, which is typical among moms, the thing is, only her business is not a pyramid, it just ultilizes multi-level selling model, aggressively.

Welcome to “the food matrix”

@@solarisveritatis1086it’s a pyramid scheme just not legally yet

@@solarisveritatis1086😂

like 30 year ago, I worked in a Boston seafood restaurant. One day a small group shows up as we're leaving. I asked who they were. I was told they were a bakery and they rented out the kitchen. So same but a little different. They handled their own food.

This is something i didn't even think about definitely needs more likes. When he mentioned the 44 restaurants operating out of the same kitchen the possibility for cross contamination is damn near guaranteed.

It’s definitely a cross-contamination disaster waiting to happen if they’re experiencing worker shortages. Less workers and more work creates a larger margin of error when it comes to sanitization. Seems like it could easily become a lawsuit if there were to be simple errors.

Do it for the lawsuit

@@EffYouMan its ready be they family suing if they don't get that epipen in time

Dude I didn't think about this either. I have a digestion-related shellfish allergy that takes about 30 minutes to an hour to hit me after I've eaten literally any amount. If I got sent the wrong food, or contaminated food, I could easily end up in the hospital and have no idea what caused it.

I can definitely hear him saying "welcome to Burger Bitch" in my head.

Like the whole branding and stuff just feel...synthetic. Its like "fake" with different restaraunt names serving the exact same food.

@@multi2736 Well, it is a _virtual_ restaurant. The whole point of it is to give the veneer of a real restaurant, but in actuality being a cheap profit machine.

@@emstink Its like that one spongebob episode where Mr. Krabs sells his Krust Krab restaurant to the suits.

Seems ai generated

Can you sue them? I feel like you should be able to sue.

this is random but I learned from one of my food service jobs that if you're allergic to shellfish you might also be allergic to bugs because they have similar skeletons or something like that. Point is, just avoid anything with crickets or bugs! (I worked at an ice cream shop that had crickets in their spooky halloween flavors for some reason) Just saying, always mention your seafood allergy because who in their right mind would think it would matter at an ice cream shop?

As someone with a nut allergy this is literally my nightmare- if I think I’m ordering from a Vietnamese restaurant, I’m not going to put a note for my allergy usually because there aren’t many nuts used in the cuisine. If it was housed in the same place as a Thai restaurant- which uses lots of nuts usually- without my knowledge, bad things could happen for sure

You should definitely be able to sue for that. At the very least you should get court fees + hospital fees and ideally youd get some sort of trauma reparations as well

@@reilly4678well shellfishes are basically just water bugs

His reaction after hearing them say it’s lame is comedy gold 😂

Personally it seemed pretty cool until he made the circle green.. 🤢

@@gl00mbunny Not really. I'd say it's "bad" in that it looks in that it looks similar to a mockup design for a branding project I may have done in Uni, not in the "oh god, he's delusional for being proud of this, it's a sin against humanity" type of way. It's centered well enough so it's not uncomfortable to look at for too long, it helps elevate the product. etc. I think it's unfinished, but you really don't want to go into a meeting with a super polished final product only to be told it's shit and it needs to be redone from the ground up-depending on the stage of the review process you're in, of course. It's a waste of time and resources.

Same. I worked at a local restaurant and the owner decided to run essentially a ghost kitchen out of it only for Doordash. It stressed the hell out of kitchen cause they had that, him bumbling around the kitchen making the food for it, and dealing with the dining room/our own doordash orders

A friend of mine works at a local sushi place and she’s thinking of quitting for that same reason. It’s truly infuriating that restaurants abuse their employees in this way and there’s still very little regulation.

These ghost kitchens were probably a good idea during lockdown times when nobody was going out to eat, now. . .i dont know. Like you said, more work for no extra pay.

Tips are meant for a service. The kitchen is getting paid a normal wage, servers and delivery drivers are not. When I was delivering, my hourly wage was about $5 an hour. I needed the tips to survive. Why do you feel that the driver’s tip should go to the restaurant? Doesn’t make sense.

@@Guywithaclub it should go to the back of house staff, or at least a portion should; I understand that the delivery driver needs the tip the most, but the kitchen is the one who has to deal with to-go orders and in-house orders. Like I said, the staff at a restaurant is almost working twice as hard to satisfy the DoorDash/Postmates orders as well as the restaurant orders, so I felt like they should be properly compensated for their work.

Yeah they gotta rebrand lmao

Maybe you should tell them? I'm sure if you thought that then probably lots of other people thought that as well. Maybe they could just change the name to "host kitchen" or "ghostly kitchen" or something

but do they serve ghost pepper or have a spooky season theme? or owned by a family named ghost?

Yeah they need to be told that ghost kitchen means something more than they thought

That's so unfortunate! They probably have no idea

Yeah but at the very least Chuck e Cheese has a bit of an excuse for it, their main business are eat in diners and during covid that obviously caused troubles so personally I don't really judge them too harshly for the Pasqually thing. The place was even named after a member of their animatronic band and apparently they did change the pizza recipe to be better so yeah. Pretty much the only one of these that I can forgive, times were hard, I understand the decision.

TIL

I ordered from a Chuckie ghost kitchen once, it still infuriates me and why I always google the address first.

@@poppythedogofwonders Just gonna add that they did actually change the recipe, i dont know what exactly (They claim that they have a thicker crust and extra sauce) and how much but i do know that atleast slightly they did infact change something about it

3j lol

I saw it more like a spy so good they are a ghost The cutting edge espionage food 😂

This is 100% going in my D&D campeign notes

I like your brain ❤

My mind always jumps to a completely empty or automated kitchen whenever I hear the phrase. these aren't ghosts you can see; there's cooks in the back but nobody's home...including the cooks.

Bless your heart 😂❤

Also they can monopolize the prices

​@@tomyholloway6378 no

That's actually an interesting point. What needs to happen then is they are licensed as real businesses and the owner pays for company registration and stuff. The delivery only fulfilment method is nothing new, and I can totally see more of these taking the place of dine in restaurants so the conversation needs to move on from whether or not they should exist to how do we prevent the greedy cash grab element and ensure high quality and standards as in real dine in restaurants. In Ireland at least they'd be susceptible to the same health code checks and stuff.

@@gringo6362 how so?

chinese buffets in my area have been doing that since the 90s

I live in South Philly and I legitimately started looking up addresses for every place I want to order from that isn’t a small business, because I use UE primarily. It’s so frustrating

there's no way thats not a violation, the poor dude

Imagine if someone gave this guy enough startup capitol (5K?) to be his own thing. He wouldn't be working for minimum wage, could be making the same food, and be keeping the majority of the profit for himself. Perhaps Eddy Burback should get on that instead of spending thousands on focus groups? (Great video, Eddy. Not a criticism.)

Where at? I want to check him out

There is one of those carts near my house and the wait to pick up the food was horrible.

that sounds horrible, I'm happy you were able to escape that staff grinder.

Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you refused to cook for the ghost kitchens?

Well that explains why the Chili’s next to me is somehow always behind

You weren't forced to do shit.

@@sharp14x uh oh, someone’s late-stage capitalism is showing