{"id":16080,"date":"2017-10-30T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2017-10-30T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T18:00:31","slug":"dark-kitchens-the-future-for-deliveroo-where-they-cater-from-car-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/dark-kitchens-the-future-for-deliveroo-where-they-cater-from-car-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dark Kitchens\u2019 the future for Deliveroo where they cater from car parks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deliveroo\u2019s \u2018Dark kitchens\u2019 are producing food within shipping container like boxes where chefs copy trendy restaurant menus without having to pay for a high street location.<\/h3>\n

The metal boxes are kitted\u00a0out with industrial sized kitchen equipment and a couple of chefs which work in each premise. There are 11 sites that are being\u00a0used by Deliveroo\u00a0which contain 66 \u2018Dark kitchens\u2019. Many of the infrastructures are located\u00a0in London, however there are some in areas such as Reading and Leeds.<\/p>\n

The kitchens which tend to be based within car\u00a0parks have no windows and create food for companies such as: Gourmet Burger, Franco Manca, MeatLiquor\u00a0and Motu.<\/p>\n

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Image by Business Insider<\/p><\/div>\n

Deliveroo calls the kitchens \u2018Rooboxes\u2019 and \u2018Deliveroo Editions’, the company secures the locations and then it rents them to restaurants who train staff to work directly within the new premises.<\/p>\n

A campaigner against a Roobox in London told The Daily Mail: \u201cWe didn\u2019t know it was delivered\u00a0from a metal box at the back of a warehouse\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt it must be\u00a0very profitable – it does not have to build a restaurant, the staff are all disposable and the customers don’t have a clue what is going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian managed to interview two chefs that work within the glorified shipping containers and stated that the conditions can either be hot or cold. The heat normally depends on the weather and if they are preparing the food or cooking it. Within one of the kitchens, there is only a small heater fan for cold days and one of the kitchens is fitted\u00a0with a pizza oven which takes up more than a third of the space and makes the box unbearable hot.<\/p>\n

Deliveroo promises on its website \u201cto bring your favourite restaurant directly to your front room\u201d; this clearly isn\u2019t the case as no restaurants are technically built within this new venture for the company.<\/p>\n

However, Deliveroo\u00a0has faced criticism for this \u2018Roobox’ scheme as originally the company planned to have 200 \u2018Dark kitchens\u2019 on 30 sites across the UK by the end of 2017. This target has been missed\u00a0and there have been huge amounts of complaints from individuals\u00a0who accuse Deliveroo\u00a0of not abiding by the planning rules.<\/p>\n

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Words by Harry Bourner | Subbed by Etienne Fermie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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