Meanings
plural cloud kitchens
- A restaurant built around food delivery, especially via the Internet, rather than sit-down service.
Synonyms: ghost kitchen, dark kitchen, ghost restaurant
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA restaurant built around food delivery, especially via the Internet, rather than sit-down service.
Origin
A neologism, in reference to cloud computing, possibly coined because its synonyms ghost kitchen and dark kitchen have a somewhat pejorative connotation.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
cloud kitchen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloud%20kitchen
“cloud kitchen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cloud%20kitchen. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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