![]() The cloud kitchen concept is here to stay,” he says. “Individuals in the US have invested in our business through this model. He is rapidly expanding his business through the FOCO Model (Franchise Owned Company Operated). Half the people opening them have no background in the food business,” says Khurana, who was among the first to open a cloud kitchen, a 1,400sqft facility, in Zamrudpur. Now, new cloud kitchens are opening almost every day. “ The first cloud kitchens arrived on the scene a few years ago, but the model got a big boost during the pandemic. Jahan Khurana, who owns 15 cloud kitchen brands such as Dana Pani, Ballu Bawarchi, Roji Roti and Shanghai Chillie’s, says the pandemic has led to the rebirth of the cloud kitchen concept in the country, with over 3,000 cloud kitchens opening in Delhi alone during the pandemic. “Setting up cloud kitchens allows you to move away from pricey retail locations and focus on just food,” he adds.Ī 200sqft space in Zamrudpur costs about ₹20,000 a month. The cloud kitchen, he says, has been a success, and he has since opened one more in Gurugram and is in the process of opening another one in Punjabi Bagh. The cloud kitchen model allows us to operate in any location what matters is the quality of the kitchen infrastructure and food, ” says Kapoor, who ran a catering business before he started Madam Curry in 2020. “It may look like an unlikely place for a kitchen hub, but this market is already one. His kitchen, along with several others, is situated in the village’s dusty auto market, dominated by a motor mechanic and auto-parts shops. Ishaan Kapoor, who runs Madam Curry, a cloud kitchen, agrees. Most cloud kitchens here have no signboard- the only sign of their presence are delivery men receiving orders through a small opening in the doors of the buildings.Īshwani Basantani, who runs Cloud Kitchen Exchange, an online platform that helps buy, sell and rent cloud kitchens, says the village is a favourite with cloud kitchen enterprises because of low rentals, a south Delhi address, and its proximity to posh south Delhi colonies, which generate a bulk of the high-value orders. Throughout the day, one can see food aggregators’ delivery partners zipping in and out of the village on motorcycles, cycles and electric bikes. The epicentre of this revolution is Zamrudpur, a south Delhi village, currently home to about 100 cloud kitchens, including Layla’s, Ah So Yum, Burgerama, Madam Curry, Kougan and Rutbah, among others that promise fine dining at home. ![]() With restaurants in Delhi shutting dine-in facilities frequently due to pandemic restrictions in the past two years, cloud kitchens- delivery-only outlets - have mushroomed across the Capital. ![]() A delivery executive waits for the order outside a cloud kitchen in Zamrudpur (HT) ![]() “It is because this village is the biggest hub of cloud kitchens,” says Shamim, as he waits to pick up an order, a pizza, from a cloud kitchen located in a nondescript building in the auto market of the village. While he delivers to multiple locations in south Delhi, the pickup destination is almost always Zamrudpur, a village near Greater Kailash 1. Md Shamim, a delivery executive with an online food aggregator, says that since the Delhi government banned dine-in at restaurants last week, the number of deliveries he makes every day has almost doubled. ![]()
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