As appetite grows for upmarket takeaways,delivery service is setting restaurants up with satellite kitchens inside metal boxes
A tatty car park under a railway line is squeezed between a busy road, an industrial site and a semi-derelict pub covered in graffiti. It’s one of the grittiest parts of east London and probably the final set you would imagine some of the trendiest eateries in the country to be preparing meals.
But the grimy spot is just a short moped ride from the gleaming office towers of Canary Wharf and upmarket docklands apartments, or is therefore the perfect location for the latest idea from Deliveroo,the food courier service. It is setting up dozens of “dark kitchens” in prefabricated structures for restaurants that want to expand their businesses without opening expensive tall street premises.
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Source: guardian.co.uk