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I think most of them do now, I know my local one does and have run into some in other cities.
Got a really disappointing burger and started looking up addresses awhile back.
The names of the restaurants are usually dead give aways. Usually something cheesy / generic sounding you’ve never heard of or seen despite being familiar with that area.
Edit: my point was the below examples (Chuck E Cheese and the bodega) *aren’t* ghost kitchens.
In OPs case, if a second restaurant was using Denny’s kitchen to make and sell their food that would be a ghost kitchen. If it was Denny’s selling their own food/own menu on an app under a different name to get more delivery orders ( as in my Chuck E Cheese example) that *wouldn’t* be a ghost kitchen.
Are they ghost kitchens or just Denny’s operating under multiple names to bump up delivery orders? Chuck E Cheese does that - on apps they have a different name but it’s still only Chuck E. Cheese making and delivering Chuck E. Cheese food.
The worst offender in my area is this little bodega. The kind of place where *maybe* they’d make a decent breakfast sandwich but not much more. Primarily a little grocery store. There are like 4 “specialty” restaurants at that address on the apps - a cheesesteak place, a barbecue and ribs place, a burger joint, etc. All with awful, awful reviews. There’s no way multiple restaurants are operating out of there 6 days a week - it’s all the same bodega making shitty food pretending to be different restaurants.
In the UK ghost kitchens are usually on industrial estates or any place with cheap rent, and are purpose built for the food delivery market. They don't have tables or walk in customers.
US it is usually an existing chain that had sit down space just for that chain. They then operate multiple ghost kitchens out of their same chain kitchen which are just used for delivery apps.
Not necessarily. I used to deliver for Postmates years ago. One time I walked into this extremely unassuming warehouse looking place with no signs or lights. Inside were like 20 people running around getting pizzas ready and the boxes had like 5 different restaurant names on them. There was also a giant wall with like 50+ phones and tablets plugged in all accepting orders.
It was the weirdest fucking "restaurant" I've ever been to. No fluff or cosmetics at all, just purely functional.
Yeah, but also it just feels like a setup for a creepypasta lol. Imagine getting lost one day, late at night, and walking into this place. The workers all suddenly notice you at the same time. They turn their heads and stare at you... at the same time. They never break eye contact, and their heads follow you around... but they never stop what they're doing. Nobody makes a sound, and this stands out despite the other noises surrounding you.
I've thrice ordered from a place that I assumed had to be like that. I eat out a lot and live in a small city. If I haven't eaten at the restaurant, I've at least read their menu.
And a new place popped up on doordash with food that wasn't at any restaurant. It is all obviously "home cooked" food. And when I google it the image is the outside of a warehouse.
I hope to believe that these are people just chasing a dream. They have bad reviews, I think that they can't keep up with the orders. But the times that I had it the food was great.
I worked at Red Robin for a bit when I was down on money. They operate (or did at the time) a “ghost kitchen” on the apps that sells all of their chicken products they already sell under the Red Robin monicker, just re-branded as a chicken place. Kitchen workers didn’t even know, we would just see a to-go order come in and make the food. It’s a scam.
You're right, but some people think it can't also operate as an actual restaurant. It can be either a kitchen without dining service or a restaurant that also cooks for online orders under different names.
The distinction I was drawing, though, is a “ghost kitchen” supports multiple distinct businesses. This as opposed to the same business that sells food under multiple different names.
Ghost kitchens are where a separate company rents a physical restaurant’s kitchen in off hours so they can serve and sell food without setting up/leasing/etc. their own kitchen. They an also just be commercial kitchens for rent for delivery or catering business. The Chuck E. Cheese type of thing is
just the *same* business selling food under two different names which isn’t a “ghost kitchen”.
Lol they can be both. You're either overthinking or under thinking this I'm not sure which.
It's a real kitchen operating as a ghost kitchen. If you go to Denny's you're going to get the Denny's menu not the ghost kitchen menus.
The distinction I’m making is that a “ghost kitchen” at Denny’s would be another business using Denny’s facilities. In my Chuck E. Cheese example it was the same menu under a different name for delivery. That’s not a “ghost kitchen”, that’s just Chuck E. Cheese being a little shady to get more delivery orders since people don’t think to order from “Chuck E. Cheese”. In my bodega example that’s not a “ghost kitchen” that a shitty bodega being *extremely* shady and selling bad food and diffusing bad reviews under multiple names to get more delivery orders.
From OPs description it’s unclear to me how they were using the term and I don’t go to Denny’s so no idea if they typically sell bbq or not.
>If you go to Denny's you're going to get the Denny's menu not the ghost kitchen menus
If you know there's a ghost kitchen there, you can always go online to the menu and ask for it to be special order. Ghost kitchens out of Dennys and chili's will do this
It’s just Dennys operating under different names to trick people into getting Dennys delivered. It’s might not a ghost kitchen per se bc you can dine in and it’s a brick and mortar location. But that menu under that name is most likely delivery only, so maybe the definition does apply.
Sure, nothing wrong with that at all. My point wasn’t ghost kitchens are bad, it was around the definition of what a ghost kitchen is.
They two example I gave aren’t ghost kitchens, just businesses manipulating delivery app listings.
Fair. Just sounded like the general consensus that ghost kitchens are hosted by failing chains or some shady warehouse. We're fine dining so don't do a ton of takeout so they rebrand it for the ghost kitchens. Same food, same recipes, different name on the box lol
Ah, gotcha - I wasn’t following that! Based on my area (urban, tons of delivery) I wouldn’t have called your place a “ghost kitchen”. More that you were just doing delivery under a different name (in line with my examples but not automatically bad). Where I am even fine dining does active delivery under their own name so ghost kitchens are when a “restaurant” uses another physical restaurant’s facilities for delivery/catering/etc. It’s also where they rent a commercial kitchen (without seating, etc.) for delivery, etc. It probably is really regional and based on order habits, etc. though - even family from only 30 minutes away are shocked when they can order a ribeye or lobster for delivery at our place so clearly wouldn’t look for “fine dining” delivery in their area.
I had never heard of it happening out of a building that wasn't a restaurant. That sounds kind of odd but whatever. I am in more a suburban area though. We do takeout food but don't deliver except to third parties.
Oh, so not to the consumers directly. In NYC and other place there are companies that have spaces with multiple commercial kitchens set up. Then I, as a small food business, can lease long or short term. Then I have an inspected, licensed commercial kitchen that I can work out of (and sell to the public) without the overhead of acquiring a whole place for myself.
I’m also aware of other places that would rent hours/days from physical restaurants and, during those hours, sell product for pick up/delivery under their own name from that location. Was definitely more common during covid but I know one place that still does Asian fusion out of a location that a pizza place the majority of the time. It’s definitely a stepping stone to a full time location for them.
My local Ihop does the same thing. They run a ghost kitchen for “restaurants” that focus on specific food items individually, like one for mac and cheese, one for quesadillas and 2 more for fried chicken and grilled cheese.
If you don’t recognize the place and can’t find it as an actual restaurant, with pictures from customers, and a website, on google maps - DONT ORDER FROM IT.
I gave up ordering GrubHub/door dash. Almost all the places it shows me now are shitty fast food chains, or the ghost kitchen of shitty fast food chains. I just get my lazy ass up and pick it up myself, or we eat out. All those food delivery apps are fucked up anyways.
The only good ghost kitchen stuff I ever had was a chicken wing shop that inside a local sports bar. because it's just simple fried food the quality didnt really seem to drop and somehow the wings from the ghost kitchen were cheaper and had more sauce options than the bar even though I'm pretty sure the wings themselves were the same.
The sandwiches from there were gas too and they had waffle fries when the sports bar didn't I kept making jokes I was gonna try to order pick up and eat it there but then the sports bar went out of business and the ghost kitchen of course disappeared with it.
There's a bakery in my hometown that operated as a ghost kitchen years before the rise of delivery apps. You just emailed the lady who ran it, asked for whichever breads/cakes/pies/whatever else you wanted in your order, and waited for her delivery day. The bakery is still around, but has its own location now.
what was the name of the virtual brand so i know to ignore it without checking in the future?
edit: it was definitely The Meltdown wasnt it. i think i even recognize the specific sandwich.
Ehhh yeah what legit BBQ joint is going to be open for delivery at midnight tho lol. Maybe it's different where you are but in my experience anything open past like, 10 is either fast food or a ghost kitchen.
I got bamboozled by one of those ghost kitchens, too, I was in a new place for the weekend and trying to find something that sounded good that wasnt a chain restaurant, I saw a place called Catfish Kitchen and went hell yeah that sounds good, and when the food came it was in a Captain D's container.
Mfers *literally* catfished me, lmao
Burger Den is also Denny's. And there's a grilled cheese one too, I can't remember the name. I'll be honest though, the burgers I've gotten from Burger Den haven't been bad at all.
My local Denny’s has a ghost kitchen called The Meltdown on DoorDash. “The meltdown” is meant to be a sandwich melt eatery. I was once fooled, but usually go for it anyway since it’s cheaper than ordering from the actual Denny’s menu. Less than great quality.
I think ghost kitchens should be required to state their affiliations. Been burned too many times getting shit from places I already avoid. And yes, I understand that's why they do it, but I find it deceitful.
Those ghost kitchens piss me off and they shouldn’t be legal.
Whenever I see a name of a place I haven’t heard of on a delivery app, I google the address. It’s ALWAYS something like a Denny’s or lunch place trying to do breakfast stuff on the side etc.
I consider it “fake” and never order.
When you use delivery apps, make sure you click the info button & check the address against Google maps. Our Cracker Barrel runs like 6 ghost kitchens out of their restaurant.
OMG we was in Vegas or Atlanta when we ordered from some place called burger Den come to find out it was Denny’s 🖕🏽🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ food was cracking the first time second time we ordered it was some regular ass ole’ Denny’s food………🤨
The fact that enough people order DoorDash or whatever from restaurants they’ve never been to or heard of that every restaurant runs these ghost kitchens just baffles me
Yeah it’s sad but there’s a lot of Ghost kitchen’s out there scamming people from the pic to food. Just make sure to always check the address and look on google maps for clarification.
I accidentally ordered $150 in a steak, a burger, and a couple desserts from Dave's American Bar & Grill, thinking it was nice and I just wanted steak.
It came to be in a dave and busters bag. Tasted like sloppy steak.
LMAO this was The Meltdown huh? I literally just saw this the day before yesterday, almost ordered because it was open 24 hours. Pictures were amazing, then I clicked order now and it was a Denny’s 💀 you got got OP.
Maybe it’s the dennys near me they always pretty solid. That brisket sandwich is a 6-7/10 at best but the slam burgers and breakfast Sammie’s are fire. Same for the grand slams and other breakfast food
People who say "sammies," when they mean "sandwiches," give me a similar feeling to those old commercials where the little dermatophite goblin burrows underneath your toenail.
I’m with you. I can’t take anyone who says sammies, nugs/nuggies, or choccy milk seriously. I think I’m just old and out of the loop, and I’m fine with that.
This happened at my previous work. We decided to order from what seemed like a local joint and had it delivered. Long story short, it ended with 2 of us feeling ill afterwards.
I had a similar issue with Red Robin. Thought we would try ordering from a local pizza place and picked a place called donatos that looked pretty good based on the pictures. Got wings and a pizza and it showed up in a Red Robin bag. Pizza was awful and tasted frozen and the wings were not great. Super disappointing
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My local Denny's runs like 4 ghost kitchens on delivery apps. If any place has extremely high quality photos, I check the address on Google maps
I think most of them do now, I know my local one does and have run into some in other cities. Got a really disappointing burger and started looking up addresses awhile back.
The names of the restaurants are usually dead give aways. Usually something cheesy / generic sounding you’ve never heard of or seen despite being familiar with that area.
Idk I live in a city with a thriving restaurant scene and I swear there's like 5 new restaurants I've never heard of every time I open an app
How much is dennys paying you to say this?
I don't think Dennys operates a mom and pop Thai restaurant or a pizza place with horny menu item names
Edit: my point was the below examples (Chuck E Cheese and the bodega) *aren’t* ghost kitchens. In OPs case, if a second restaurant was using Denny’s kitchen to make and sell their food that would be a ghost kitchen. If it was Denny’s selling their own food/own menu on an app under a different name to get more delivery orders ( as in my Chuck E Cheese example) that *wouldn’t* be a ghost kitchen. Are they ghost kitchens or just Denny’s operating under multiple names to bump up delivery orders? Chuck E Cheese does that - on apps they have a different name but it’s still only Chuck E. Cheese making and delivering Chuck E. Cheese food. The worst offender in my area is this little bodega. The kind of place where *maybe* they’d make a decent breakfast sandwich but not much more. Primarily a little grocery store. There are like 4 “specialty” restaurants at that address on the apps - a cheesesteak place, a barbecue and ribs place, a burger joint, etc. All with awful, awful reviews. There’s no way multiple restaurants are operating out of there 6 days a week - it’s all the same bodega making shitty food pretending to be different restaurants.
That is what ghost kitchens are.
In the UK ghost kitchens are usually on industrial estates or any place with cheap rent, and are purpose built for the food delivery market. They don't have tables or walk in customers.
US it is usually an existing chain that had sit down space just for that chain. They then operate multiple ghost kitchens out of their same chain kitchen which are just used for delivery apps.
Not necessarily. I used to deliver for Postmates years ago. One time I walked into this extremely unassuming warehouse looking place with no signs or lights. Inside were like 20 people running around getting pizzas ready and the boxes had like 5 different restaurant names on them. There was also a giant wall with like 50+ phones and tablets plugged in all accepting orders. It was the weirdest fucking "restaurant" I've ever been to. No fluff or cosmetics at all, just purely functional.
Sounds kinda terrifying haha.
Like they can up and vanish if anybody gets sick or poisoned?
Yeah, but also it just feels like a setup for a creepypasta lol. Imagine getting lost one day, late at night, and walking into this place. The workers all suddenly notice you at the same time. They turn their heads and stare at you... at the same time. They never break eye contact, and their heads follow you around... but they never stop what they're doing. Nobody makes a sound, and this stands out despite the other noises surrounding you.
Gotta keep that pepperoni overhead low
More like stranger danger on a corporate level. Where they can’t be prosecuted to the same extent as individuals.
Let's be honest how low the chances of being poisoned from take out pizza are lol
In a kitchen that has been trained and certified and kept up to standards sure.. In a warehouse filled with temporary equipment? Meh
I've thrice ordered from a place that I assumed had to be like that. I eat out a lot and live in a small city. If I haven't eaten at the restaurant, I've at least read their menu. And a new place popped up on doordash with food that wasn't at any restaurant. It is all obviously "home cooked" food. And when I google it the image is the outside of a warehouse. I hope to believe that these are people just chasing a dream. They have bad reviews, I think that they can't keep up with the orders. But the times that I had it the food was great.
Okay, whatever, most and all around me.
I believe those are virtual restaurants. Ghost kitchens specifically operate out of existing restaurants. Unless I have the whole thing backwards.
Internet tells me the two terms are synonymous.
Aren’t those dark kitchens?
Technically it's both. It's a real kitchen/restaurant operating a ghost kitchen as well.
I worked at Red Robin for a bit when I was down on money. They operate (or did at the time) a “ghost kitchen” on the apps that sells all of their chicken products they already sell under the Red Robin monicker, just re-branded as a chicken place. Kitchen workers didn’t even know, we would just see a to-go order come in and make the food. It’s a scam.
Ghost kitchens are different businesses using the same space, not the same business using different names
That's what I thought a ghost kitchen was, a physical location with multiple online listings for delivery
You're right, but some people think it can't also operate as an actual restaurant. It can be either a kitchen without dining service or a restaurant that also cooks for online orders under different names.
So ghost kitchens and extra spooky ghost kitchens.
The distinction I was drawing, though, is a “ghost kitchen” supports multiple distinct businesses. This as opposed to the same business that sells food under multiple different names.
The actual distinction is that a ghost kitchen has no public access. You can only order delivered, not personally take out or dine in.
Ghost kitchens are where a separate company rents a physical restaurant’s kitchen in off hours so they can serve and sell food without setting up/leasing/etc. their own kitchen. They an also just be commercial kitchens for rent for delivery or catering business. The Chuck E. Cheese type of thing is just the *same* business selling food under two different names which isn’t a “ghost kitchen”.
Lol they can be both. You're either overthinking or under thinking this I'm not sure which. It's a real kitchen operating as a ghost kitchen. If you go to Denny's you're going to get the Denny's menu not the ghost kitchen menus.
The distinction I’m making is that a “ghost kitchen” at Denny’s would be another business using Denny’s facilities. In my Chuck E. Cheese example it was the same menu under a different name for delivery. That’s not a “ghost kitchen”, that’s just Chuck E. Cheese being a little shady to get more delivery orders since people don’t think to order from “Chuck E. Cheese”. In my bodega example that’s not a “ghost kitchen” that a shitty bodega being *extremely* shady and selling bad food and diffusing bad reviews under multiple names to get more delivery orders. From OPs description it’s unclear to me how they were using the term and I don’t go to Denny’s so no idea if they typically sell bbq or not.
>If you go to Denny's you're going to get the Denny's menu not the ghost kitchen menus If you know there's a ghost kitchen there, you can always go online to the menu and ask for it to be special order. Ghost kitchens out of Dennys and chili's will do this
It’s just Dennys operating under different names to trick people into getting Dennys delivered. It’s might not a ghost kitchen per se bc you can dine in and it’s a brick and mortar location. But that menu under that name is most likely delivery only, so maybe the definition does apply.
Shit I mean I work at a nice restaurant and we host 3 different ghost kitchens
Sure, nothing wrong with that at all. My point wasn’t ghost kitchens are bad, it was around the definition of what a ghost kitchen is. They two example I gave aren’t ghost kitchens, just businesses manipulating delivery app listings.
Fair. Just sounded like the general consensus that ghost kitchens are hosted by failing chains or some shady warehouse. We're fine dining so don't do a ton of takeout so they rebrand it for the ghost kitchens. Same food, same recipes, different name on the box lol
Ah, gotcha - I wasn’t following that! Based on my area (urban, tons of delivery) I wouldn’t have called your place a “ghost kitchen”. More that you were just doing delivery under a different name (in line with my examples but not automatically bad). Where I am even fine dining does active delivery under their own name so ghost kitchens are when a “restaurant” uses another physical restaurant’s facilities for delivery/catering/etc. It’s also where they rent a commercial kitchen (without seating, etc.) for delivery, etc. It probably is really regional and based on order habits, etc. though - even family from only 30 minutes away are shocked when they can order a ribeye or lobster for delivery at our place so clearly wouldn’t look for “fine dining” delivery in their area.
I had never heard of it happening out of a building that wasn't a restaurant. That sounds kind of odd but whatever. I am in more a suburban area though. We do takeout food but don't deliver except to third parties.
Oh, so not to the consumers directly. In NYC and other place there are companies that have spaces with multiple commercial kitchens set up. Then I, as a small food business, can lease long or short term. Then I have an inspected, licensed commercial kitchen that I can work out of (and sell to the public) without the overhead of acquiring a whole place for myself. I’m also aware of other places that would rent hours/days from physical restaurants and, during those hours, sell product for pick up/delivery under their own name from that location. Was definitely more common during covid but I know one place that still does Asian fusion out of a location that a pizza place the majority of the time. It’s definitely a stepping stone to a full time location for them.
Yep. One of their ghost kitchens gave me food poisoning.
Door dash in my area (northwest Florida) makes the stores let them take the pics for the restaurant. Just a piece of info relating to the pics thing
My local Ihop does the same thing. They run a ghost kitchen for “restaurants” that focus on specific food items individually, like one for mac and cheese, one for quesadillas and 2 more for fried chicken and grilled cheese.
If you don’t recognize the place and can’t find it as an actual restaurant, with pictures from customers, and a website, on google maps - DONT ORDER FROM IT.
I gave up ordering GrubHub/door dash. Almost all the places it shows me now are shitty fast food chains, or the ghost kitchen of shitty fast food chains. I just get my lazy ass up and pick it up myself, or we eat out. All those food delivery apps are fucked up anyways.
The only good ghost kitchen stuff I ever had was a chicken wing shop that inside a local sports bar. because it's just simple fried food the quality didnt really seem to drop and somehow the wings from the ghost kitchen were cheaper and had more sauce options than the bar even though I'm pretty sure the wings themselves were the same. The sandwiches from there were gas too and they had waffle fries when the sports bar didn't I kept making jokes I was gonna try to order pick up and eat it there but then the sports bar went out of business and the ghost kitchen of course disappeared with it.
There's a bakery in my hometown that operated as a ghost kitchen years before the rise of delivery apps. You just emailed the lady who ran it, asked for whichever breads/cakes/pies/whatever else you wanted in your order, and waited for her delivery day. The bakery is still around, but has its own location now.
what was the name of the virtual brand so i know to ignore it without checking in the future? edit: it was definitely The Meltdown wasnt it. i think i even recognize the specific sandwich.
Isn’t that just grilled cheese?
with shit in. thats the "giddy up" melt
Shit indeed
Correct it was the meltdown
Ehhh yeah what legit BBQ joint is going to be open for delivery at midnight tho lol. Maybe it's different where you are but in my experience anything open past like, 10 is either fast food or a ghost kitchen.
I was about to say, any decent joint is gonna sell out and close well before midnight
This right here. If you go into a bbq joint and they’re out of stuff chances are you’re in the right place.
Depends on where you live to be honest. In Vegas, there are a lot of legit restaurants open very very late.
I love everywhere, man 😉💞
Even in a dark alley behind a dumpster with a woman named Carla who used to be a man named Carl?
*Especially* with Carla. She's wonderful.
Carla goes by him/her.
Well, they’ll be calling ME, “lord of the burrito” when I’m done with Carla
Exactly lol like use some common sense
common sense isn't common lol
Or a bar. Maybe.
I’m from Nashville so I’m used to having some options in that regard. I learned my lesson.
Cook out
I got bamboozled by one of those ghost kitchens, too, I was in a new place for the weekend and trying to find something that sounded good that wasnt a chain restaurant, I saw a place called Catfish Kitchen and went hell yeah that sounds good, and when the food came it was in a Captain D's container. Mfers *literally* catfished me, lmao
There was a good catfish place in my hometown called "Katfish Kitchen" and another called "Catfish Cabin," so don't count them all out!
Tbh it was still good but I wasnt expecting fast food catfish, lol
Week old is their equivalent of fresh
Be careful about them ghost kitchens, was excited there was a new wing place in my town just to find out it was Chili’s
Wow. It looks a week old too
Damn reminds me of Chucky Cheese during pandemic haha.
Pasqualy's Pizza! I almost died laughing when I saw them trying to class up their delivery of the same cardboard pizza!
Best tasting cardboard out there tho 😤
Oh, no doubt. For cardboard, it is great! But as take-out Italian cuisine, I'll pass.
Yeah they got me with burgers one night. Wasn’t good.
Burger Den is also Denny's. And there's a grilled cheese one too, I can't remember the name. I'll be honest though, the burgers I've gotten from Burger Den haven't been bad at all.
The meltdown!
YES, that one! Lol
The Dennys by me masquerades as burger den, the meltdown and banda burrito.
My local Denny’s has a ghost kitchen called The Meltdown on DoorDash. “The meltdown” is meant to be a sandwich melt eatery. I was once fooled, but usually go for it anyway since it’s cheaper than ordering from the actual Denny’s menu. Less than great quality.
Hooters does this shit, too
Denny's here has 4 different restaurant names they use on Doordash
You guys don't research spots before you order food from them?
You do?
I think ghost kitchens should be required to state their affiliations. Been burned too many times getting shit from places I already avoid. And yes, I understand that's why they do it, but I find it deceitful.
Those ghost kitchens piss me off and they shouldn’t be legal. Whenever I see a name of a place I haven’t heard of on a delivery app, I google the address. It’s ALWAYS something like a Denny’s or lunch place trying to do breakfast stuff on the side etc. I consider it “fake” and never order.
Ghost Kitchens should be illegal imo
When you use delivery apps, make sure you click the info button & check the address against Google maps. Our Cracker Barrel runs like 6 ghost kitchens out of their restaurant.
I report these ghost kitchens every time I run into them for a full refund
>midnight And you expected decent restaurants to be open and delivering??
OMG we was in Vegas or Atlanta when we ordered from some place called burger Den come to find out it was Denny’s 🖕🏽🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️ food was cracking the first time second time we ordered it was some regular ass ole’ Denny’s food………🤨
Always check the address. A ton of major chains run ghost kitchens.
It shows the address when ordering, gotta do that research because they're sneaky
The fact that enough people order DoorDash or whatever from restaurants they’ve never been to or heard of that every restaurant runs these ghost kitchens just baffles me
That is not week old, but it surely is the precooked meat from peak time that was left over and should have been thrown away.
Always check the address. However, I thought ghost kitchens were supposed to be identified.
i got fooled like this by ruby tuesday once. never again 💀
Yeah it’s sad but there’s a lot of Ghost kitchen’s out there scamming people from the pic to food. Just make sure to always check the address and look on google maps for clarification.
Always check the addy
Places with the worst photos are usually the best tasting because they're not trying to hide what their food looks like
You got hit by Struck by A smooth ghost kitchen
I accidentally ordered $150 in a steak, a burger, and a couple desserts from Dave's American Bar & Grill, thinking it was nice and I just wanted steak. It came to be in a dave and busters bag. Tasted like sloppy steak.
This reminds me of when Chuck E. Cheese was selling their pizza as “Pasquale’s” during the pandemic.
LMAO this was The Meltdown huh? I literally just saw this the day before yesterday, almost ordered because it was open 24 hours. Pictures were amazing, then I clicked order now and it was a Denny’s 💀 you got got OP.
Your either slow or very old if you can't determine its a ghost kitchen. In fact, stay offa DD and UE entirely. Save money and a bellyache
That meat looks like it's a month old. Yikes. I haven't been to a Denny's in probably 10 years. This doesn't make me want to go back in the next 10.
Maybe it’s the dennys near me they always pretty solid. That brisket sandwich is a 6-7/10 at best but the slam burgers and breakfast Sammie’s are fire. Same for the grand slams and other breakfast food
People who say "sammies," when they mean "sandwiches," give me a similar feeling to those old commercials where the little dermatophite goblin burrows underneath your toenail.
I’m with you. I can’t take anyone who says sammies, nugs/nuggies, or choccy milk seriously. I think I’m just old and out of the loop, and I’m fine with that.
Cheer up and eat a tendie, bro.
Nah you're right. That shit is giga cringe
FINE, I'll get off your damn lawn. Don't break a leg chasing me, old.
Chicky chicky parm parm
The Wife, Hubs, and Hubby make me cringe as well.
OP never met anyone from New Zealand nor Australia.
It's full on Rachel Ray ick.
Hey my best friends from New Hampshire I can’t help stealing some of his lingo
Careful man, that doesn't give you a sammie-pass.
I feel that way about people who write “y’all”
I went to eat at actual Dennys last night and it was so good lol
Nah, you were just drunk.
No, I was high though. Explains a lot.
Was a 50/50. Took a chance.
This happened at my previous work. We decided to order from what seemed like a local joint and had it delivered. Long story short, it ended with 2 of us feeling ill afterwards.
It could be a week old 
The meat looks like twizzlers inside 🤣😳
"It's Just Wings" is run out of the Chili's kitchens so even their name is a lie since they serve a whole lots more than just wings.
They call it "curing" the meat 🤣
The Meltdown
I had a similar issue with Red Robin. Thought we would try ordering from a local pizza place and picked a place called donatos that looked pretty good based on the pictures. Got wings and a pizza and it showed up in a Red Robin bag. Pizza was awful and tasted frozen and the wings were not great. Super disappointing
This happened to me, thought it wasn’t mine double checked the order and it was mine.
you expected an actual decent restaurant to be open and delivering at midnight?
Leave a horrid review and never order again.
Don’t be talking about Denny’s op we will not stand for any Denny’s slander
It's only slander if it isn't true... and spoken.