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- Restaurants are scaling back 'ghost kitchen' operations due to added stress and customer complaints.
- Brands like Wendy's and Kroger are shutting down their ghost kitchens, the Times reported.
- Ghost kitchens were an exciting pandemic-era innovation. But the anonymity bred lower standards.
Ghost kitchens — once celebrated as an efficient innovation for the food industry — have instead been haunted by their own anonymity.