• myyass@lemmy.world
    1·
    50 minutes ago

    And then there’s LOTTERIA in Korea. Redneck bikers munching sliders… Cows in buns and boys… Honestly I have no idea how you’re really supposed to read what’s the stuff at the counter but it’s in English and well doesn’t exactly put off the message they intended.

    And of course a coffee chain called “A Twosome Place” heh I mean at this point I get something was lost in translation, I’m sure they meant a place for two or a place for couples. This wasn’t the first thought I had when it was next to the love hotel I was staying (it’s cheaper than a regular hotel, but the tv had a call option or pink or blue lol).

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      7 hours ago

      I don’t have a problem with ghost kitchens. The best Indian takeaway (by far) near me doesn’t have a restaurant, they’re delivery (or collection) only. The curries are superb, and the prices are decent, presumably because they don’t have the overheads of a restaurant, waiters, bar staff, tables, chairs, linens, crockery, cutlery.

      And I’d rather ghost kitchens existed than find myself sitting in a real restaurant, waiting for my food, while a constant stream of helmet-wearing moped riders come in and get priority.

      • lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I might be misunderstanding what a ghost kitchen is. Kitchens without a storefront are sometimes good but the “restaurants” that are just brands licensed to establishments, like this one, are almost always the lowest of peddled trash. That said, I’m hoping to order it at some point and make a post on it here.

      • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        6 hours ago

        I’ve got no problem with those kinds of ghost kitchens, and some of my favorite places to get food from are take-out only too. This looks like one of the Virtual Dining Concepts kitchens where they have like 30 “restaurants” taking up space on delivery apps all having the exact same menu so you’re more likely to order from them than a local place

      • Obituarykidney@lemmy.world
        9·
        7 hours ago

        A lot of the ghost kitchens I’ve encountered are three or four different “restaurants” with one guy working. The food is 90% deep fried frozen stuff, and the stuff they do cook tastes bad or is really average quality at best in my experience. If they get enough bad ratings they close that one and start a new one with an identical menu but a new name and uber doesn’t care.

        Some of them are even real restaurants that had bad ratings so they run a shop with a different menu out of their kitchen. An Indian place near me has 2.4 stars which is the lowest I had ever seen - until they started a pizza shop out of the same kitchen and got down to 1.9.

        Maybe some are good, but I’ve never encountered a good one in my city. There’s no accountability, and it leads to lower standards.

      • Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        6 hours ago

        I really hate how deceptive they are. There’s a company called Virtual Dining Concepts that has like one location in an area, but they sign up as 30 or more different “restaurants” on delivery apps. All having the same menu and their items all have the same ingredients, and there are so many listings to trick you into ordering their food thinking you are trying a new local place called “Slutty Buns” or whatever

    • bcgm3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Copy errors like that demonstrate a real lack of professionalism, and I’d expected better coming from the originators of the Smash Me Daddy Double Cheeseburger. Their food is supposed to be slutty, not stupid!

  • Anchorxiety@reddthat.com
    3·
    8 hours ago

    Smash me daddy double cheeseburger is pretty funny. Sounds like the kind of place that would be hilarious to go to for the first time, but after that it would be a bit cringe lol

    • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      7 hours ago

      There’s nothing to go to, it’s a ghost kitchen.

      A fake restaurant, probably owned by some other chain and likely serving identical food, that exclusively does doordash (or whatever the UK equivalent is) orders and performs various stunts like this naming scheme to bait in first-timers with something quirky.

      Once business for this joke dries up they’ll likely just close up and make another one since the “restaurant” is almost entirely virtual.