Virtual or "ghost restaurants" is part of this ongoing and accelerated move to online ordering. The customer orders from a restaurant that only exists as a kitchen (or perhaps the kitchen of a full operating restaurant). Not a move I personally find attractive, but the users are there and growing.
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Keith Youngquist AIA
Manager/Principal
Dacre & Youngquist, LLC
Chicago IL
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-04-2019 16:14
From: David Brotman
Subject: Why supermarkets are building 'dark stores'
Just came across this article about how online orders are effecting the design of Super Markets. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/business/grocery-delivery-pickup-walmart-kroger-stop-and-shop/index.html This is just the beginning.
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David Brotman FAIA
Past AIA Regional Director
Scottsdale AZ
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