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Source: Nation's Restaurant News

The shift to off-premises has fueled rapid growth of virtual restaurant brands under a growing number of models. The attraction of offering menus for delivery only is clear: There’s a low cost of entry.

Source: Eater

With growing frequency, the food you order from a delivery app is being prepared in a ghost kitchen — or cloud kitchen, or commissary kitchen, or whatever you want to call it — by cooks working for a restaurant that doesn’t really exist, at least not in the traditional sense.

Source: QSR Magazine

Virtual brands have grown from an experimental tool into a full-fledged brand extension for many restaurants.

Source: Fast Casual

When YouTube sensation Jimmy Donaldson, better known as "MrBeast" to his millions of followers, opened his MrBeast Burger fast food chain, a key ingredient was not on the menu: actual, physical locations.

Source: PBS

Ghost Kitchens, sometimes also called Cloud Kitchens, are just one of many business and technical innovations restaurants have adopted in the last year to survive the economic pressures of the pandemic. According to the National Restaurant Association, industry sales were down $240 billion in 2020 from an expected $899 billion, which is comparable to 2019’s $863 billion in sales.

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As the pool of operators gets more crowded, here’s a look at different models and legal considerations for adding on delivery-only brands.

Source: Ovation

Find out what your restaurant should do now and in the future, from the co-founder of Virtual Dining Concepts (MrBeast Burger, Mariah’s Cookies, Wing Squad, P.ZA Kitchen).

Source: QSR News

The world’s most memeable chef, Guy Fieri, is taking his Flavortown Kitchen, a delivery-only restaurant brand powered by Virtual Dining Concepts, to new heights by partnering with the most iconic name in suburban meme culture, MiddleClassFancy. The partnership not only brings together two brands synonymous with memes, but also offers a new menu item, the "Rand Burger," now available for a limited time only.

Source: Food on Demand

Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is the latest celebrity-backed virtual restaurant from Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), and since its rollout in early 2021, Flavortown Kitchen is already up to approximately 160 locations up and running.

Source: Fox News

Anyone who has watched Guy Fieri and wondered where, exactly, Flavortown is located may soon discover one in their own backyard. The chef and Food Network personality recently opened a new delivery-only restaurant chain, Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen, with locations in 23 states and Washington D.C.

Source: Total Food Service

Food Network celebrity chef Guy Fieri is rapidly rolling out a new delivery-only restaurant chain that adopts the “ghost kitchen” concept instead of a static brick-and-mortar sit-down establishment.

Source: Yahoo

Through a partnership with Guy's Flavortown Kitchen, the oft-requested burger is now available to order via popular food delivery apps like Uber Eats, Postmates, DoorDash, Grubhub, Bite Squad and Waitr. The cost is $11.99 with free delivery via select apps.

Source: Feast Magazine

If you're like me, you've always dreamed of being taken to Flavortown by Guy Fieri, but Flavortown is really more of a state of mind than a single place. Thanks to Flavortown Kitchen, a new virtual, delivery-only brand from Guy himself, you can go to Flavortown any time you feel the urge in most major cities – all you have to do is order and wait.

Source: QSR Magazine

Chef, restaurateur, New York Times Best Selling author, and Emmy Award-winning TV host, Guy Fieri, and internationally renowned restaurateur, Robert Earl, have joined forces once again to debut Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen. As part of Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), one of the fastest-growing virtual restaurant groups, Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Kitchen is the latest celebrity-owned brand now available for online orders.

Source: Fast Caual

Instead of building his own brick and mortar restaurants around the country (a daunting prospect even for seasoned restaurateurs), he chose an increasingly popular avenue for his business — a virtual, delivery-only brand that leverages a network of more than 900 existing commercial kitchens and staff to create and distribute his food.