Food Delivery Apps May Be Lying to You

TikTokers have been going viral for talking about the concept of 'Ghost Kitchens,' restaurants on food delivery apps that are not what they seem.

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00:00 Some restaurants on your food delivery apps

00:02 may be deceiving you.

00:05 A concept is resurfacing and going viral on TikTok,

00:08 and it's the kind of spooky idea of ghost kitchens.

00:12 Social media users have been discovering

00:14 that the restaurants you see on your food delivery apps

00:17 are often not what they appear to be.

00:19 - A ghost kitchen is a restaurant that lives in the cloud.

00:23 So we have a website, we have Instagram,

00:26 and we sell everything online.

00:28 And the only way you can get it is through delivery apps,

00:32 Uber Eats, Postmates.

00:33 So it's a whole concept.

00:35 - This doesn't immediately mean ghost kitchens are bad,

00:38 but many netizens simply find it interesting

00:41 to see where their food is really coming from.

00:43 - My favorite thing to do is get on a delivery app

00:45 in anywhere I haven't seen before,

00:46 and Google the address and see what it really is

00:48 and what they're hiding.

00:49 You can do this on any food delivery app,

00:51 but for the ease of this video,

00:52 let's just look at Uber Eats.

00:53 So here we have the burger down at 5501 Leesburg Pike.

00:57 Oh, I never heard of the burger down before, what's that?

00:59 Oh, 5501 Leesburg Pike, it's a Denny's.

01:02 Look how convincing this is,

01:03 look how fun the burger down is.

01:05 Feel the burn burger, vibe with Shroom's Burger,

01:08 spill the bourbon burger.

01:10 Ooh, the Meltdown, 5501 Leesburg Pike,

01:13 that looks kind of good.

01:15 Guys, it's still Denny's,

01:16 they're just posing as multiple different brands.