Founded in 2017, Kitchen United has two commercial kitchen centers, in Pasadena, California, and Chicago. Each center partners with with 10 to 15 restaurant brands, including chains like The Halal Guys, Sweetgreen, and Chick-fil-A.
Like mobile kitchens, ghost kitchens and other delivery-centric locations offer a low-cost way for chains to boost sales and expand in new areas. Chick-fil-A — a rare chain that already has a fleet of food trucks — has four catering and delivery hubs, something Gordon Haskett analyst Jeff Farmer wrote in an August note was a "sizeable strategic step past its quick service peers" for the chain.