the basis of ghost kitchens started with one restaurant being cloned by the same restaurant to serve as a preparation nexus for their own menu to get local coverage and gain economies as the restaurant ramped up. Later pirate restaurants that were clones that copied the menu and snapped up the order - often assisted by delivery companies that had the stats. Later these grew larger, multi menu clones, often with 3-6 restaurant clones in one spot. Then someone got greedy, and the rents for these spaces destroyed their economic basis, and the city got greedy, rubbing their oily hands together to get taxes, levy code shit etc. The original restaurants lawyered up and the ghost kitchens became anonymous - and Oh yes, COVID was over