How to Operate a Cloud Kitchen to Ensure Success?

Cloud kitchen is a highly profitable restaurant concept and it takes a lot to succeed. Let us have a look at what it requires to run a cloud kitchen ensuring greater success.

Taking order online only

Since the major source of taking order is online and cloud kitchen POS is important. There can be many sources of taking orders like various ordering enabled sites or online food aggregators.

Taking and controlling the order becomes quite troublesome as each online food aggregator offers an individual table for taking orders. It virtually isn’t possible to keep up with various orders bucketing in from different sites with no POS.

Another means for order receiving is telephone calls. For this, you require a call center panel. It will route the orders to the relevant outlet and brand. When you are having ranges of the brand running the outlet of the same kind, you require a robust POS that could provide you complete information related to the total number of orders received for every brand.

Order processing

Orders received in the cloud kitchen are processed like usual orders. The difference that lies is the fact that every order belongs to a different brand and the taste of each one needs to be maintained differently.

In order to solve it, you may have different chefs catering to different kitchen areas which are designated to the team of various brands under the same cook.

It is going to use if consider investing in POS with a kitchen display system. It will show the order that is prepared by the cook. The cook can mark as done on the display system and further send for getting packed.

Then the packaging team will pack the order and further process it towards the delivery stations.

Every stage of the order acceptance to food preparation to the food packing and delivery is being recorded by POS.

Finally, it would help in figuring out and optimize the time of order preparation. You can track the delays that help at any given stage and take the correct measures to eliminate the lags.

Staff

Cloud kitchen due to lack of dine-in/takeaway facility doesn’t need any wait staff. However, it demands experienced kitchen staff.

Your food is the only thing that the buyer is in touch with and it needs to be flawless.

Therefore it is crucial to invest in a skilled cook who can prepare the food efficiently.

You can easily run the cloud kitchen by hiring more chefs to prepare different foods.

Conclusion

We hope that this short guide on how to run cloud kitchen will be helpful to you and will hope that you soon come up with yours as well.