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dark kitchens

dark kitchens is the plural of dark kitchen.

Meaning of dark kitchen

Noun

dark kitchen (plural dark kitchens)

  1. (neologism, appliance) A commercial kitchen where restaurant-style meals are cooked for delivery.
    • “We were using some of our restaurant kitchens, but are now investing into more delivery-only or ‘dark’ kitchens, as we were not able to service the growing demand,” Jain said.2015, Shonali Advani, “Mast Kalandar owner Spring Leaf Retail investing in delivery only kitchens to boost MK Dabbawala”, in Economic Times
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, kitchen.
    • [I]f your dark kitchen adjoins a room with an abundance of natural light, it might work to remove the separating wall to let some of the light in […]1998, Herrick Kimball, The Kitchen Consultant, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 86

Questions about dark kitchens

What is dark kitchens the plural of?
Dark kitchens is the plural of dark kitchen.

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