Kitchen United

Kitchen United is a ghost kitchen company based in Pasadena, California, providing equipped professional kitchen space to restaurants for the preparation of delivery-only meals.<ref name="NYT 08/19/2019"></ref> This allows bricks and mortar restaurants to expand their food delivery business without adding extra staff or space and allows the creation of restaurants with no dine-in service.<ref name="Bloomberg 05/15/2019"></ref> In addition to commercial kitchen space, it provides back of house automation and ordering software that accommodates the main delivery services (DoorDash, GrubHub, Uber Eats, etc.).<ref name="NRN 03/05/2019"></ref><ref name="FT, Bradshaw 05/21/2019"></ref>
The company was initially funded by GV (formerly Google Ventures), which invested $10 million. GV also contributed to a $40-million series B round of funding that included Fidelity Investments, G Squared Capital and RXR Realty.