Kitopi
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| Industry | Cloud kitchens, Food Tech |
| Founded 📆 | January 25, 2018 in Dubai, UAE |
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Kitopi is a startup that operates a network of cloud kitchens (also known as virtual kitchens or dark kitchens). [1][2][3][4].[5]
Cloud kitchens differs from ghost restaurants in the sense that instead of operating as one restaurant brand, they facilitate as a meal preparation hub for delivery orders for a dozen or more restaurant brands in the same location.[6] Cloud kitchens have emerged as a business model in response to the rapid growth in consumer demand for restaurant delivery meals, from virtual restaurants.[7] [8] Lower costs are incurred by using kitchen facilities located outside of high-rent, high-foot-trafficked urban locations. [9] In addition to equipped kitchen space and dedicated parking areas for delivery drivers. Kitopi offers point of sale and ordering software that accommodates various delivery platforms (GrubHub, UberEats, Zomato, DoorDash,Talabat e.g.) to aid processing orders.[10]
On Feb 3, 2020, Kitopi announced it raised $60 million from its Series B round of funding.[11] [12].
Background[edit]
Kitopi was founded in January 2018 by Mohamad Ballout (CEO), Saman Darkan (Chief Product and Technology Officer), Bader Ataya (Chief Growth Officer) and Andres Arenas (Chief Compliance Officer) and currently operates 30 kitchens across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, US and UK.
Some of its investors include Lumia Capital, Knollwood, BECO Capital, Rise Capital amongst others. [10][13][14][8].[4]
Further reading[edit]
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- ↑ Wadhwa, Priya (January 20, 2020). "Hold The Storefront: How Delivery-Only "Ghost" Restaurants Are Changing Takeout". Fast CCompany. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
- ↑ Bradshaw, Tim (May 21, 2019). "The start-ups building 'dark kitchens' for Uber Eats and Deliveroo". Financial Times. Financial Times. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- ↑ Wadhwa, Priya (May 17, 2019). "Rising FoodTech industry impacts restaurant dynamics". SME10X. SME10X. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Anderson, Robert (April 7, 2018). "UAE food start-up Kitopi attracts interest from Crescent, BECO for seed round". Gulf Business. Gulf Business. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
- ↑ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (2019-12-24). "Farm to Table? More Like Ghost Kitchen to Sofa". The New York Times. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ↑ Yaffe-Bellany, David (2019-12-24). "The Rise of Virtual Restaurants". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ↑ Yaffe-Bellany, David (2019-12-24). "The Rise of Virtual Restaurants". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Madhumita, Murgia (5 April 2017). "Deliveroo expands with standalone takeaway kitchens". Financial Times. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ↑ Sherred, Kristine (January 24, 2019). "Why 'ghost' restaurants are changing the delivery game". Restaurantdive.com. Industry Dive. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Albrecht, Chris (Jan 9, 2020). "A Quick Tour of Kitchen United's Virtual Kitchen Operation". commercialobserver. Commercial Observer. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ↑ Ruggless, Ron (March 5, 2019). "Kitchen United COO talks broad horizon for off-premise". NRN.com. Nation's Restaurant News. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ↑ Ungerleider, Neal (January 20, 2017). "Hold The Storefront: How Delivery-Only "Ghost" Restaurants Are Changing Takeout". Fast Company.
- ↑ Gonen, Jordan (January 15, 2019). "Cloud Kitchens and Uber's Future of Food Delivery". Medium.com. Medium. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
- ↑ Garlick, Hattie. "Dark kitchens: is this the future of takeaway?". Financial Times. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
