How To Rent A Commercial Kitchen

When you are new to the food industry it is difficult to know what where to start when building your own food business or brand. With term’s like dark kitchen, pub kitchen and catering kitchen it’s difficult to know where to start. We will break down the different types of kitchens available to rent and which kitchen maybe best suited to you. Read on to find how renting a commercial kitchen can help and your food business. 

Licensed commercial kitchens or kitchen shares within existing businesses can take many forms – either as a long term or short term solution or a time shared arrangement reducing the costs of both kitchen providers and users. 

In this post we will look at various aspects of renting a commercial kitchen including the different types of kitchen’s available, what these name’s mean, the types of users and the costs you will incur when renting a commercial kitchen.

Renting a kitchen is full of variables and each kitchen type has a different type of use case and each has its own benefits and pitfalls.

When looking for a kitchen to rent it is important to consider the various use cases and what types of kitchen are available to meet these needs. 

There are 4 main type of kitchens available to rent:

Catering Kitchens

Unlike dark kitchens and commercial catering kitchens, CPU’s aren’t typically used to create food for a delivery only service. CPU’s give one kitchen space to businesses to do all of their food prep and cooking, ready to be served in various outlets.

Central Production Kitchen

Food businesses pick CPU’s since it’s easier to keep the food quality reliable, This reduces costs and improves the production, management of staff and control of ingredient’s by using one central kitchen.

Dark Kitchens

A Dark kitchen, also called delivery kitchens or ghost kitchens, help delivery only food businesses to create and sell their food. The idea of Dark kitchens is to allow you to reduce your costs of having a full dine in restaurant with associated fit out and appliance costs by offering food only through popular delivery apps. Many vendors also sell and deliver direct to consumer without the fee’s attached to using these delivery apps and services.

Pub Kitchens

Pub kitchens to rent or pub residencies are pub kitchen rental which tends to be on a longer term or permanent basis within an established food and beverage venue. The majority of rentals tend be pubs to kitchens to rent. Generally these  pub kitchens to rent will usually have an established front of house. I.E a place for customers to visit the pub, come in, sit down a dine.