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Ghost Kitchens Finding a Home in AME

Ghost Kitchens Finding a Home in AME

Money pours into startups powering the Gulf region's love of home-delivered meals, while the global virtual dining trend also blossoms in South Africa

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Charles Laughlin
Apr 23, 2021
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Source: Kitopi

The Gulf region’s embrace of the ghost kitchen concept drew global attention in November 2019. That’s when the PIF, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, invested $400 million in Travis Kalanick’s CloudKitchens startup.

Kalanick is of course best known as Uber’s founder and the embodiment of the Silicon Valley “tech bro”. In 2016, following his…

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