In q-commerce and online food delivery platforms, Talabat has declared that several opportunities are there for F&B players in the UAE. They can expand on cloud kitchen concepts, especially with the substantial enhancement in online order in the last couple of years.
Jeremy Doutte, the vice president of Talabat in the UAE, spoke at a hybrid event recently. There he outlined how the COVID-19 pandemic influenced the field of online food delivery business, showing a path to develop with a new and fresh concept. He said that “the cloud kitchen model is the future which will support the UAE’s business ecosystem.” He also added that it is much clear to all that this COVID-19 pandemic has been a massive stimulant of transformed consumer behavior. However, even in this pandemic situation, they noticed different consumers’ behaviors that influenced the online food delivery trade. The development in q-commerce specifically is something that they have never seen before this situation.
This concept of cloud kitchen is a delivery-only venture, come up with no dine-in facility, serving restaurants a time and cost-effective way to complete a bigger volume of orders. It is also familiar as ‘dark kitchens’, they also support those restaurants in reducing the overall process costs which generally merged with conventional brick and mortar establishments. This tech-allowed facility is very useful and exclusive for customers as it provides lessens delivery time below, enabling consumers to receive their food orders within just 30 minutes.
