Concept of Cloud Kitchen
Cloud kitchen also known as virtual kitchen which serves restaurant-quality food on online platform. Cloud kitchen only offers online orders and does not have a traditional restaurant or dining space. Cloud kitchens can open up sizeable number of jobs across the globe.
Benefits of cloud Kitchen
• Low Investment
• Low Operational Cost
• Highly Profitable Business
• Easy Expansion
Cloud Kitchen Food Services Market is growing continuously across the globe. After outbreak of COVID-19, increasing usage of smartphone along with rise in using of food delivery services. Online food ordering traffic has increased around 200% faster than traditional restaurants after COVID-19 Pandemic. As per cognitive market research, the Global Digital Food Delivery market size will be USD 278.82 Billion by the end of 2029.
Adoption of advanced technology along with rising digitalization has played an important role in cloud kitchen. Some of the key players are investing in technological advancement to enhance their services. For instance, in 2020, Zuul announced the launch of Zuul Market, a virtual food hall delivery experience. Zuul Market provides scheduled food deliveries to specific drop points, enabling tenants, employees and residents to order from multiple restaurants in the same delivery. Many people around the world use mobile apps for food delivery. According to the study, UberEats and the McDonald's app each had 82 Billion global downloads in 2020, while DoorDash had 44 Billion.
Conclusion
With current speed of the cloud kitchen concept is expected to outperform traditional restaurant industry and digitalise the entire food market.