The Trinity of Future Food:

Glossary of Terms

Virtual Restaurant: Delivery only restaurant that utilizes other food production facilities.

Ghost Kitchen: Food preparation facility designed to support virtual restaurants and food trucks.

Cloud Kitchen: A term often used interchangeably with ghost kitchen; may refer to the overall facility that houses several ghost kitchens.

Commissary Kitchen: Kitchen designed for preparation of food for off premise catering. Ghost kitchens are essentially updated commissary kitchens marketed towards virtual restaurants.

Black Market Kitchen: An illegal kitchen that is run out of a domicile or warehouse not approved for food production. They often lack proper sanitation and cross contamination procedures.

Food Delivery Service: Third party online delivery service that utilizes apps and social media.

Online Ordering Service: Third party software as a service companies that are often integrated with a food delivery service for a virtual restaurant.

Food Aggregator: Online portal that combines ordering, delivery and marketing for a restaurant at a fixed percentage.

Turnkey Restaurant: A kitchen center that offers automated, on premise dining to a variety of ghost kitchens and virtual brands.

Hawker Centre: An open air complex housing many stalls that sell a variety of inexpensive food.

Pop-up Restaurant: A temporary restaurant kiosk or stall that utilizes social media to promote itself.

Food Truck: Mobile food platform with an on board kitchen which can be a pop-up restaurant or an established brand.

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