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They primarily rely on online food aggregators such as Swiggy, Zomato, or online websites or apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>Related Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/licences-required-to-start-a-cloud-kitchen-in-india\/\">List of Licences Required to Open a Cloud Kitchen in India<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Types of Cloud Kitchen Business Model &#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>1. Single Concept cloud kitchen<\/strong> &#8211; It operates on a single theme that typically offers 1-2 cuisines and has a small menu with 10-15 menu items.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>2. Virtual Restaurant<\/strong> &#8211; Also know as a ghost kitchen, that is a restaurant inside an existing restaurant that serves food exclusively by delivery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>3. Multi-brand Cloud Kitchens<\/strong> &#8211; As the name suggests, it&#8217;s a model that allows running different brand name restaurants in a one roof using the same material, equipment, and resources.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>4. Co-working kitchen space<\/strong> &#8211; Where the number of restaurants can rent, establish and operates. These kitchen spaces have&nbsp;<strong>individual kitchen units<\/strong>&nbsp;for every brand, provided with the required facilities and conveniences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>5. Aggregator based Cloud Kitchens<\/strong>&#8211; Cloud kitchen spaces which managed by online delivery aggregators. Two major players Swiggy, Zomato have tried their hands in the cloud kitchen business as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><strong>Pros &amp; Cons of cloud kitchen in India <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-650x650.jpg\" alt=\"pros and cons of starting a cloud kitchen\/dark kitchen business model\" class=\"wp-image-3168\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-650x650.jpg 650w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/bingage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/99006201_1372891579561801_4847026230265905152_o.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Cloud kitchen &#8211; A survivor for food industry.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">We&#8217;re going through an unusual situation, restaurants are shut down for dine-in, only online deliveries are allowed that too with complete health and safety measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">From large restaurant chains to smaller standalone restaurants all are turning to online deliveries. Some of the brands also introduced a contactless delivery model for safer and healthy food delivery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Benefits of starting a Cloud kitchen &#8211;<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rebel Foods, Eat.fit, Box8, and Freshmenu are some of the largest cloud kitchen brands who are progressing in the cloud kitchen domain. <br>Although the concept has been in the spotlight because of many benefits, their potential has swiftly raised during this nationwide lockdown, now restaurant owners are pivoting to staring a ghost kitchen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>A)<\/strong> Cloud kitchens are acknowledged&nbsp;<strong>as a low investment, low risk, still, a high-profit business model<\/strong>&nbsp;since the cost of setting up a cloud kitchen is significantly less as compared to starting a traditional dine-in restaurant in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">B) The cloud kitchen business allows restaurant owners to experiment with multiple concepts and formates. In result, has given birth to different&nbsp;<strong>food delivery business models.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">C) Owning to&nbsp;<strong>low capital expenditure and high operational efficiency<\/strong>. It represents huge profit opportunity, Cloud kitchens have low indirect costs as compared to traditional restaurant businesses. It can attract budget-conscious consumers and grow their market share in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">D) Restaurant running cloud kitchen can take help of <strong>online food aggregators<\/strong>, like outsourcing food delivery to these brands like Swiggy and Zomato<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;<br>As per a report by News18, Some of the popular food brands such as Haldiram\u2019s, Keventers, Chaayos, Saravana Bhavan, etc. have started cloud kitchens in partnership with Zomato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">E) Also, starting a dark kitchen&nbsp;<strong>eliminate front-line operational and in-house seating arrangement cost<\/strong>&nbsp;as well as managed by less staff.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Starting a cloud kitchen <\/strong>represents an opportunity for both, the restaurant owners, and the online food aggregators. For new or for well-established cloud kitchens are now fast becoming the most preferred restaurant format for opening a new business or for rebounding the existing one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Want to see how Bingage can help to boost customer retention &amp; grow your business?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fill out the form &amp; we will get in touch with you to schedule a one-on-one demo which is free of cost and done online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"forminator-guttenberg\">[forminator_form id=&#8221;3323&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cloud kitchen also recognized as the dark kitchen or ghost kitchen or we can say a virtual restaurant, is a kind of restaurant establishment that offers only-delivery services with no dine-in convenience.&nbsp; Cloud Kitchens take customers&#8217; orders either online or by telephone. 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