The recent boom in food delivery apps meant customers were already used to having restaurant quality meals quickly delivered to their homes. To meet that demand a growing number of restaurants set up delivery only kitchens — also known as “cloud kitchens” — or rented space in ones. Grab opened 20 new cloud kitchens in Southeast Asia last year, up from 42 before the pandemic. Earlier this year they opened their first cloud kitchen on the outskirts of Bangkok, with plans for two more. After recently retiring from Air India, Nirjash Roy Chowdhury, sunk his savings into setting up a cloud kitchen in Mumbai.

Source: Taipei Times September 17, 2021 15:56 UTC