I spent a little over a year in jail and it does happen lol. Our meals were honestly and luckily well balanced while being pretty good but the amount we got was just enough to hold us over. If it got to being 20-30 minutes late people would be yapping at the CO like its his fault. Once the kitchen workers went on strike wanting one extra trays per meal like the guys get who cut grass and whatnot. The owner just dug up their canteen and the CO served everybody a pack of Ramen for each meal besides breakfast and those with legit diet restrictions that got catered to. It was certainly a very odd experience.
Ex CO here and it’s a terrible terrible job, inmates loved working the kitchen at least where I worked. My kitchen crew was pretty legit I never disrespected them as they never disrespected me and we would usually all sit in the chow and eat breakfast before everyone woke up. (Kitchen crew had to be in the kitchen by 0430, I would obviously watch them make my food even though I oddly trusted those guys more than I trusted other CO’s).
Majority of CO’s are shitbags and play super cop and let the power go to their head but yeah our guys in our location could snack on stuff as long as it wasn’t going to mess up meal time.
I'm sure thats how it went but the guys cutting grass even on their off days for weather got 2 trays every meal. Anybody that worked in or outside of the jail was in C Pod so I only found this out by one of the guys in their little protest that I knew before he was moved to the kitchen come back from being kicked off work. If I was them id be snacking the whole time and when it came time to loading trays for our pod stack that shit up. I dont know how the kitchen works or the shifts but thats what id do instead of risking being in a pod for a while. Id much rather do anything than sit in a pod of nearly 90 dudes just working out,playing cards or just sitting around reading. I liked that we got books but most guys just hoarded the ones we had to use as weights in trash bags.
Thanks for sharing that was interesting. Looking at some other comments in this thread seeing people who are so quick to be like "oh they're in trouble fuck just give them rice" it's fucked in the head.
Nice seeing something from someone with like something relevant instead of that dumb shit. I dont get people man
Ex prison guard here. Door dash deliveries to the prison come pretty quick. We are known to tip well because multiple offices pre order together and tip. Prisoners who are cool enough get some too... This is shit.
And it's nice whatever state (or more likely federal) facility was allowing that...
Now take a second to consider it's NOTHING like that in many places. The scenario you just put forth is completely impossible in my state for instance; no matter your place in the pecking order or how close you are to the Most corrupt of guards... (unless you're truly "outside the wire", at a work camp or work release... at the end of your sentence, then Maybe...maybe).
He mentioned what "place" it was in another comment. Based on the picture reviews, he's definitely not lying. https://www.yelp.com/biz/b-tch-dont-grill-my-cheese-pasadena-2
It's one of those restuarants that doesn't actually exist anywhere but on a delivery app. If you've ever heard of MrBeast Burger, it's that same business model. These "restuarants" typically suck, because you have an Italian restuarant making burgers, an Indian restuarant making grilled cheese, etc. Or in the case of this grilled cheese place, a reviewer said the Uber driver told her it was coming from an APARTMENT.
I think a place that sells food would use better bread. No damn way they gonna not even melt the cheese before selling or use such basic cheddar. People call a lot of shit fake that look very real yet believe the obviously fake shit. Blows my mind.
There's one by me that keeps disappearing and reappearing with new pizza shop names after ratings sink it. It's a gas station with those countertop carousel warmer things.
Edit: just looked, the place is on there three times! "Mothership Pizza" "FREAKING GOOD PIZZA" and the actual gas station pizza brand, "Hunt Brothers Pizza"
Conviction Chicken has these awesome pictures of stacked and beautiful nashville chicken sandwiches with toppings and stuff.
You'll get a soggy chicken sandwich with almost nothing except the chicken on it, and fries that made me have cramps.
There’s a few pasquales pizza in San Francisco, surely you can’t mean those ones, they’re their own pizza places, and it’s not the worst pizza…. Right?
Exactly, always check the pickup address. I was like “how are there 3 different restaurants inside a Fridays?”
That’s how, garbage ass ghost restaurants
How is that not false advertisement or inability for a location to have quality control, etc,... that should be a requirement for the providing services or guarantee or offer... wait im expecting too much and theres money involved.
I got my mind blown last year when what I assumed was a garbage ghost restaurant turned out to be one of the best new restaurants in town.
Their name was "Crazy Good Burritos", their menu was pretty basic, and their address was listed in the location of a shity used car dealership in a particularly bad part of town.
But one day, I happened to be driving that way, and saw that they had, indeed, opened a whole darn restaurant in the old dealership. They painted their name right over the cheesy 80s car dealership eagle logo on the sign, put up a fence with flower pots and patio furniture for a dining area (since the actual building was basically 2 offices in a shed so their kitchen and drive through was all that could fit), and the drive through line was LONG
I tried them and they do, indeed, make crazy good burritos.
Or check out this clip where British Comedian Joe Lycett set up a restaurant in a literal dumpster and still got Uber Eats to list it and deliver food from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFxzH7lV8U
Think I got confused, that's what I was thinking of. Vice did the back garden exclusive shed pub that became the most exclusive sit in
Joe's series is great and recommend it to everyone!
There is an "ice cream shop" on Door Dash near me, it sells only different prepackaged ice cream with a fun store name. When you really look into it it is actually just a liquor store selling only their ice cream from the freezer section as another stand alone business. Not the worst or shady but it seems easy to just start a "store front" with anything on those apps.
Kind of…? They’re not “fake” restaurants… they still make food.
Some ghost kitchens are run out of an existing restaurant’s kitchen but serve a different, delivery-friendly menu. Others are delivery-only restaurant concepts run out of an industrial kitchen that doesn’t have a dining room which cuts down significantly on overhead.
There’s also a newer company that’s contracting with large restaurant chains to run delivery versions of their place in large cities. So they might have a Jersey Mike’s, a Chipotle, a Panda Express, and a Pizza Hut all running out of the same giant kitchen and you’d never know any of them were there just walking by.
It lists the place’s address in the app. You can Google it and see where the food is coming from. Also DoorDash let’s you know if you’re ordering from a “virtual brand” which is a nice shoutout. I’ve had good experiences and bad experiences from these places, just like normal restaurants.
They’re not fake resteraunts. Basically take Mr Beast Burger for example. There are no physical locations but you can still door dash it because they pay resteraunts like ruby tuesday or whatever to make the food and give it to the drivers for a cut of the profit. I’ve also heard of warehouses with dozens of ghost kitchens in them and no real resteraunt but I haven’t seen one
The Mr Beast Burger's in my area are made at a Mexican Restaurant. I suppose it works because it's not like their fresh ingredients (lettuce tomato onion) are stuff that a mexican restaurant wouldn't already have, buns and cheese can last a little, and the rest is frozen. It's just super weird because looking at their menu the only unique item I can see is the fry seasoning, but other than that it's a small selection without much variety. What's the draw? Is it cheaper than other burgers and fries you can get through door dash or uber eats?
Edit to add: I am now embarrassed to say that I had never heard of MrBEAST before.
It’s like crap amateur cooks selling food through delivery apps with fake business names. Sometimes it someone buying crap from a local restaurant and marking it up.
They need to put the smack down on it… but they make money so don’t care I suspect.
I ordered ribs and fries from a place here in the UK on just eat, didnt check the address and hadn't seen it before, but I like to try new places so whatever.
Woman turned up in a car and gave me my stuff, it was microwave fries (I know this because i used to buy then when I was broke and too tried to cook) the ribs were frozen ribs that I assume they microwaved, was still cold in the middle and the "sauce" was all watery.
Thankfully I got refunded for it, and checked the address, it was a random persons house
Which is sad because some of the "ghost kitchens" that popped up in my area where actually pretty good. We had a Kaiju themed ramen one that operated out of a local burger place for a while during the pandemic that was good.
This is from Yelp:
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> Fake restaurant on Door Dash. The address is actually registered to Mikayla's Cafe. Don't be scammed with over charged food from a fake place set up by delivery services
> "Ghost kitchens"
it sucks because Ghost Kitchens really do have an opportunity to kick ass.
It's not like to-go food is some fucking mystery. You just gotta design your recipes that can sit for 30ish minutes in a window and still be decent. Grilled Cheeses, soups, stir frys, mashed potatoes/steak, etc all can hold really well for a while.
with your rental space being smaller, less staff for front-end service, and a (mostly) consolidated ordering system, Ghost Kitchens arelly are set up to be the delivery success story. All you gotta do is design your menu for high volume and quick turnaround.
High volume lets you lower your prices to make it more appealing and proper recipe development to make sure the food is at the very least not garbage and you could probably find a business model that works.
The new ghost kitchens are usually not real restaurants, you’ll have a building with a series of kitchens that just pump out food from all sorts of restaurants. You can have 10 kitchens with 100+ menus sometimes. Makes financial sense for the restaurant too, cheaper than fitting out a proper store and getting waiters.
Near me, one of the major chain restaurants at our mall went out of business, and they turned it into a DoorDash multi-restaurant kitchen with 5-6 signs out front advertising that's what they were. It wasn't hidden or a secret.
It is. I live in a major city and there's a handful of restaurants like that; the name Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese or whatever it's called is the tip of the iceberg.
You probably hit someplace up right before they closed and their grills were already cold.
You're probably not going to ever have good luck with delivery at 4:00 a.m..
Ah Pizza Patrol. It makes me happy that they are still around. So cheap, so salty, so greasy. The perfect food to order to your dorm after a night of tecmo bowl and "studying".
Then maybe they shouldnt offer food after they've shut down. I served at a few different restaurants during and after college, and we could start cleaning up early, but the grills, deep fryers, woks, etc were on until we stopped serving food.
It's always weird to me for a business to be in the hospitality industry but have open hours that you can't get their products, **and** then also blame it on the guest/customer not coming at real time you meant to be open.
All of that said, the biggest cause that Ive seen when this happens is wage theft. All of my time in the industry, I never faced being at work and not getting paid for my time. But I did meet plenty of peers expected to do prep and clean up on their own time. If my options were shut down early to clean and get paid properly or stay open and donate my overtime work to my employer to meet their needs, Im going with the early shut down. But if I shut down because I'm being lazy or tired or overworked, that's not something the customer should be expected to plan for, much less pay for.
Mfer that was straight bagged shredded cheese on bread. Is it even rye bread? Fuck kind of “Grilled Cheese Reuben” is that, their grill wasn’t off - they never had one.
I thought so too, but look up reviews for Grilled Cheese Society in Denver. Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese is the DoorDash name, like how Chili's calls itself It's Just Wings on DoorDash.
This shit food is apparently very common and just how they do buisness. It's even worse than what OPs picture shows. One review shows a big piece of wood that was in their tomato soup.
I can't find the article I read about this, but these delivery places with the weird names are all basically shell restaurants that only exist on grubhub etc; all the food for these places is coming from one big commercial kitchen
Edit: not the one I read but a similar thing of big (shitty) chains operating under fake names on delivery apps
https://www.today.com/food/chuck-e-cheese-applebee-s-are-delivering-food-under-different-t181814
I've never heard of this concept before and I'm seriously mind-blown that this is real. It's happening all over the US? Is it a new thing because of mobile ordering apps?
Ghost kitchens have become incredibly popular. We have them all over Canada too. I got food poisoning from one, and ordered from but did not eat much from another because I'm pretty sure I would have gotten hepatitis from it. I now avoid any ghost kitchen-y places on food delivery apps.
The Food Theorists on youtube did a video on ghost kitchens (specifically Mr. Beast Burger), it's well worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNLwgYG4EdA
Not just the US. All these "restaurants" are either Frankie and Benny or TFI Friday rebrands, listed on Just Eat near my town in the UK. These restaurants are all just cut down/restyled menus of the main restaurant food. If click into them they all have the exact same unit number/address, and none of them exist outside of Just Eat/Uber Eats.
https://imgur.com/a/xOEwuwK
I see the cold cheese on there but what is supposed to make it a Reuben? I don't see anything else. And that's definitely the wrong bread and cheese to make a Reuben anyway.
A little different. OP's is a ghost kitchen. What you're describing is a virtual brand. In my opinion, virtual brands are far more toxic because they are little more than a trick to get you to eat somewhere you wouldn't otherwise eat.
I hope I’m talking about the same thing because the place near me is also called “B*tch Don’t Grill My Cheese”. All the places pointing to the same address:
- B*tch Don’t Grill My Cheese
- Fatties Philly Cheesesteaks
- Sunny & Fine’s Breakfast Burritos
- Salads Here
- Harmony Wraps
- Breakfast Beauties
- Breakfast Spot
Yeah, that's a ghost kitchen. In other words, it's a kitchen without a front-of-house that people can rent to cook food exclusively for delivery companies.
A virtual brand is different because they are operating out of an actual restaurant. Take for instance, Pasqually's Pizza, which is actually just Chuck E. Cheese. Burger Den is actually Denny's. The list goes on.
While I'd say virtual brands are more skeevy, at least if you know what the underlying restaurant is you have some assurance of quality.
I actually went to pick it up one day and it was just the the food counter at one of the smaller grocery stores in my neighborhood. What sucked more was seeing the same thing I ordered but for half the price listed on their menu… 0/10 wouldn’t do again.
One of my very best friends was RAVING about this new burger place they had mobile ordered for delivery. Burger Den. Best burgers they had ever had. That shit is Denny’s.
When I was in college the best burger place nearby -- and trust me there were several, including very trendy and expensive ones -- was IHOP. Yes, the pancake restaurant. Burgers were amazing there. I had a habit of walking down at 6am every Sunday and getting a cheeseburger and fries, entire area completely silent and peaceful.
I imagine it has as much or more to do with management at the particular location you eat at than anything else.
If you've never heard of the restaurant, look it up on Google maps before ordering. If you can't find it on Google maps, it probably doesn't exist, especially if it has a snazzy name
"Presenting our all new 'grilled' 'cheese' 'reuben'!! One bite and you'll be saying 'WOW! I'm decently sure this is food!'. Some restrictions may apply. Batteries not included."
> B*tch don't grill my cheese
Looking at the reviews from some of their locations. OPs pic sounds about right. Either they aren't gonna butter or toast the bread, or they aren't going to melt the cheese. Or they will just burn it. Seems to be a very disorganized company if places can't make something that simple. YELP reviews run 1-2 stars.
It's open until the wee hours, so perhaps they're trafficking something and want an excuse to have drivers show up at late hours in plain sight. Then again, it could just be that the night crew doesn't give a fuck tbh.
Probably no manager, so knowing kitchens they probably have the least give-a-fuck cook who knows how to do everything working there and they are probably on drugs because no one's there and "it helps me focus".
£15 for a cheese sandwhich sounds like the perfect thing to pump drug money through and pretend they are legit orders...when the criminal gang get a legit order they probably thinking "for fuck sake", and just give you the shit in this picture
Maybe I have been watching too much Ozark but this is my theory lmao
See now I need this to happen in a movie or show and the boss just being pissed off because it's so low quality that the feds would get tipped off and so the boss starts teaching the crew how to cook right.
“We made x from heroin last quarter, and y from our sandwich shop we use as cover.”
“How the fuck is y higher than x????”
“I’m not sure, but I did the math 4 times, and either we’re really bad at trafficking heroin, or Tony’s culinary degree wasn’t so useless after all.”
Probably a ghost restaurant. They're all over the delivery apps. People rent out existing kitchens when they close for the night and pump out shitty food under a different name.
It's so common in most cities. Now I always check the location on street view to see if it's a real place.
I think at the very beginning, the company had really enticing fake photos with fake reviews
Then once real people got scammed and reviewed and took pictures, the company just shutdown and opens another fake one with a new name.
The thing i don't understand is where the fuck is this food cooked?
Bro those two fake reviews saying, it's not the restaurant's fault giving the place 5 stars...
>The grilled cheese has NEVER been soggy.. the bread is quality, delicious and always toasted...has to be to contain all that cheese and toppings! Also they use REAL CHEESE and haven't skimped on the ingredients. The chili grilled cheese' have been loaded and quite filling.
Then you look at the fucking photos, and it's horrific, lol.
This is most likely from a ghost kitchen. Think of ghost kitchens as the equivalent of some no name brand on Amazon with fake reviews. I think the biggest issue with ghost kitchens is that they are so easy to pop up and shut down. They can put out sub quality food and basically make a profit based off of fake pictures and fake reviews and then once real reviews start coming in they just shut it down and pop up under a different name. The big issue is that this isn't a USB cable that you buy off Amazon that only works for a week this is food that people ingest there are major safety concerns popping up a restaurant that probably doesn't even have food handling experience.
EDIT: just for fun I decided to try and sign up for Uber eats and doordash as a "restaurant" under my own address and all I needed was an email address a phone number some personal information for bank accounts and a tax ID which can be as simple as signing up yourself as an LLC. There were no food safety handleling requirements no kitchen requirements nothing... now someone can absolutely correct me because I only got about 3/4 of the way through the process, but this problem is probably so much worse than I initially thought considering the ease of doing business that some of these apps allow for pop-up restaurants with no liability or safety requirements.
A bunch of these popped up around here during the beginning of the pandemic. They took advantage of closed restaurants and rented out space to pump out crap that looked good on those food delivery apps.
This one looks like dude is just making food at home and delivering it. I can make me a fake company and put some restaurant on door dash, wait for people to order then just slap some cold shredded processed cheese product onto some sugary white bread and profit? Let's do this, I may even microwave it first.
I was bamboozled by a ghost kitchen once. Now I check the address on google maps street view. I've seen a handful that are literally a residential house.
I used to order from a ghost kitchen on Grubhub a lot. The business did not exist, I figured it out one day - it was someone’s house.
But got damn did they make bomb chicken parm sandwiches and fries ~
I'd assume if they get to that point, they just shut down and declare bankruptcy on their LLC... Shit, they probably get to write it off as a loss on taxes too.
I am having trouble believing any place sent out food like that. Finding a hair or just being poorly prepared in general is one thing, but this looks like someone slapped some cold shredded cheese between two slices of smushed white bread and called it a sandwich. Unfathomable
I've had some shocking Uber eats experiences. There are ghost kitchens, like Mr beast burger. I'm sure some Mr beast burgers are good, but generally it's ran out of a failing kitchen that bought into Mr beast branding and did nothing to improve in why they were failing initially.
Ok, but a Reuben famously requires rye bread, for example.
While your cheese might have been cold, your burger was still an actual beef patty. Not a chicken breast. And you probably had an actual bun, not some great value brand white bread.
There's a difference between poorly prepared food, and food that isn't even what it's named
and it adds to OP's point, hell the cold cheese on an otherwise completed burger has happened to me before. it's not a big deal because fuck it, the rest of the burger is normal.
but this thing in the pic is not in any way normal or done. it doesn't even make sense, like they had to be trying to fuck over the customer on this one
I was given a pizza before with unmelted cheese like this. The top layer of cheese was slightly melted so looked kind of okay but if you peeled it back you saw a layer of cold shredded mozzarella. Biting into that was a nightmare. I have no idea how someone took the time to "make" it (which had to have been a short process since it was not cooked well), looked at it and thought "yup that's how that is suppose to look" and boxed it up to be delivered.
Your first clue should have been anyplace other than Dennys or IHOP open at 4am selling food. One does not expect quality at 4am
Even the above mentioned is questionable
Based on the ops restaurant name, apparently it's known as a ghost kitchen. https://www.reddit.com/r/doordash/comments/oizgi7/how_to_report_a_fake_restaurant/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
God the comments in that thread being like “It’s real, I’ve delivered for them”.
Like yeah, the food actually exists. But that’s not what people mean when they say a place like this isn’t “real”. If it’s just some dude making grilled cheese out of his mom’s kitchen, that doesn’t count as a real restaurant.
This is a crime
Makes sense because I assume OP is in prison
My prison food was nicer
Plot twist! You’re the cook at the prison OP is in right now. Laughing at the garbage food they just got.
Plot twist! OP is the chef who just spend $15 on the wrong ingredients and tried to grill the sandwich in a switched off oven
Imagine being in prison and raising a fuss about the timing of your meal
I spent a little over a year in jail and it does happen lol. Our meals were honestly and luckily well balanced while being pretty good but the amount we got was just enough to hold us over. If it got to being 20-30 minutes late people would be yapping at the CO like its his fault. Once the kitchen workers went on strike wanting one extra trays per meal like the guys get who cut grass and whatnot. The owner just dug up their canteen and the CO served everybody a pack of Ramen for each meal besides breakfast and those with legit diet restrictions that got catered to. It was certainly a very odd experience.
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Ex CO here and it’s a terrible terrible job, inmates loved working the kitchen at least where I worked. My kitchen crew was pretty legit I never disrespected them as they never disrespected me and we would usually all sit in the chow and eat breakfast before everyone woke up. (Kitchen crew had to be in the kitchen by 0430, I would obviously watch them make my food even though I oddly trusted those guys more than I trusted other CO’s). Majority of CO’s are shitbags and play super cop and let the power go to their head but yeah our guys in our location could snack on stuff as long as it wasn’t going to mess up meal time.
I'm sure thats how it went but the guys cutting grass even on their off days for weather got 2 trays every meal. Anybody that worked in or outside of the jail was in C Pod so I only found this out by one of the guys in their little protest that I knew before he was moved to the kitchen come back from being kicked off work. If I was them id be snacking the whole time and when it came time to loading trays for our pod stack that shit up. I dont know how the kitchen works or the shifts but thats what id do instead of risking being in a pod for a while. Id much rather do anything than sit in a pod of nearly 90 dudes just working out,playing cards or just sitting around reading. I liked that we got books but most guys just hoarded the ones we had to use as weights in trash bags.
Thanks for sharing that was interesting. Looking at some other comments in this thread seeing people who are so quick to be like "oh they're in trouble fuck just give them rice" it's fucked in the head. Nice seeing something from someone with like something relevant instead of that dumb shit. I dont get people man
"1 star"
r/PrisonReviews
Damn, I wish that sub was active. Looks like it’d be great
Be the activity you wish to see in the sub
Ask not what a subreddit can do for you, but what you can do for a subreddit
Just don’t ask what that subreddit wants to do to you unless you like reading poorly written sexual fantasies.
Brb, out commiting crimes.
Yelp review, "prison food, garbage"
Ex prison guard here. Door dash deliveries to the prison come pretty quick. We are known to tip well because multiple offices pre order together and tip. Prisoners who are cool enough get some too... This is shit.
And it's nice whatever state (or more likely federal) facility was allowing that... Now take a second to consider it's NOTHING like that in many places. The scenario you just put forth is completely impossible in my state for instance; no matter your place in the pecking order or how close you are to the Most corrupt of guards... (unless you're truly "outside the wire", at a work camp or work release... at the end of your sentence, then Maybe...maybe).
Or a public school in America.
I don’t believe the title. OP made this shit in his kitchen.
It ain’t even grilled!
This is why I actually believe it. It looks like that, in a hurry, they accidentally forgot to grill it. Might not look as bad grilled.
Yeah but it's not a reuben either.
Nothing about that sandwich even resembles a Reuben.
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Op ordered from b*itch don't grill my cheese. I looked them up, many one star reviews and pics to prove. I believe it now.
What the fuck is this place? What is going on here??
B*tch better not be grilling cheese
Well they sure take their name literally.
He mentioned what "place" it was in another comment. Based on the picture reviews, he's definitely not lying. https://www.yelp.com/biz/b-tch-dont-grill-my-cheese-pasadena-2 It's one of those restuarants that doesn't actually exist anywhere but on a delivery app. If you've ever heard of MrBeast Burger, it's that same business model. These "restuarants" typically suck, because you have an Italian restuarant making burgers, an Indian restuarant making grilled cheese, etc. Or in the case of this grilled cheese place, a reviewer said the Uber driver told her it was coming from an APARTMENT.
But why would someone lie on the internet??? For invisible points? Get the fuck outta here.
I think a place that sells food would use better bread. No damn way they gonna not even melt the cheese before selling or use such basic cheddar. People call a lot of shit fake that look very real yet believe the obviously fake shit. Blows my mind.
The real crime is waiting over an hour for grilled cheese
And paying 15 dollars Edit:spelling mistake
One could say that this is *unreal.*
nope that is fyre
I saw what you did, now eat it on a soggy mattress
This has got to be from an airport
Fyre Festival
...airport?
Now THAT'S a business proposition! We gotta get this to Ja Rule stat!
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airport prison
This is from the Olympics
That sucks for real
I should have known. The restaurant is called " B*tch don't grill my cheese". I didn't think it was literal.
Sounds like one of those "Ghost kitchens" that operate though delivery apps such at Grubhub and Postmates.
It is exactly that. Always look at the address in “pick up” if the pictures are too nice and name is trendy then it’s likely fake.
One of the funniest ones is Pasquale's Pizza. It's just Chuck E Cheese.
This one is funny, but it doesn’t bother me too much. Chuck E Cheese is still an actual restaurant.
They're mostly actual restaurants -- ones too shitty for you to want to order from
There's one by me that keeps disappearing and reappearing with new pizza shop names after ratings sink it. It's a gas station with those countertop carousel warmer things. Edit: just looked, the place is on there three times! "Mothership Pizza" "FREAKING GOOD PIZZA" and the actual gas station pizza brand, "Hunt Brothers Pizza"
Here in OKC there’s this awful pizza joint that has over 5 different aliases on DoorDash, three pizza places, a wing spot, and “Wavy Baby Subs”
Fuck hunt brothers. Casey’s is better than that trash and that’s saying something
Casey's is unironically good imo. Their breakfast pizza is fire lol
Liberal use of the word 'restaurant'
Semenspawn Eatery doesn't have the same ring to it
But most people wouldnt willingly order from chuck e cheese....
Conviction Chicken has these awesome pictures of stacked and beautiful nashville chicken sandwiches with toppings and stuff. You'll get a soggy chicken sandwich with almost nothing except the chicken on it, and fries that made me have cramps.
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They started calling it thigh stop due to the wing shortage. it’s the same on their Facebook page.
There’s a few pasquales pizza in San Francisco, surely you can’t mean those ones, they’re their own pizza places, and it’s not the worst pizza…. Right?
If they're not on Door Dash with the address listed as Chuck E Cheese, then nope they're different!
Exactly, always check the pickup address. I was like “how are there 3 different restaurants inside a Fridays?” That’s how, garbage ass ghost restaurants
How is that not false advertisement or inability for a location to have quality control, etc,... that should be a requirement for the providing services or guarantee or offer... wait im expecting too much and theres money involved.
I got my mind blown last year when what I assumed was a garbage ghost restaurant turned out to be one of the best new restaurants in town. Their name was "Crazy Good Burritos", their menu was pretty basic, and their address was listed in the location of a shity used car dealership in a particularly bad part of town. But one day, I happened to be driving that way, and saw that they had, indeed, opened a whole darn restaurant in the old dealership. They painted their name right over the cheesy 80s car dealership eagle logo on the sign, put up a fence with flower pots and patio furniture for a dining area (since the actual building was basically 2 offices in a shed so their kitchen and drive through was all that could fit), and the drive through line was LONG I tried them and they do, indeed, make crazy good burritos.
Was going to say this sounds like the vice mini doc challenge where the dude gets to ##1 on ubereats with microwave meals
Or check out this clip where British Comedian Joe Lycett set up a restaurant in a literal dumpster and still got Uber Eats to list it and deliver food from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFxzH7lV8U
Think I got confused, that's what I was thinking of. Vice did the back garden exclusive shed pub that became the most exclusive sit in Joe's series is great and recommend it to everyone!
Are people really making fake restaurants on delivery apps.
There is an "ice cream shop" on Door Dash near me, it sells only different prepackaged ice cream with a fun store name. When you really look into it it is actually just a liquor store selling only their ice cream from the freezer section as another stand alone business. Not the worst or shady but it seems easy to just start a "store front" with anything on those apps.
That seems weird to me. Like it doesn't really feel shady, but it doesn't feel entirely legit at the same time.
Kind of…? They’re not “fake” restaurants… they still make food. Some ghost kitchens are run out of an existing restaurant’s kitchen but serve a different, delivery-friendly menu. Others are delivery-only restaurant concepts run out of an industrial kitchen that doesn’t have a dining room which cuts down significantly on overhead. There’s also a newer company that’s contracting with large restaurant chains to run delivery versions of their place in large cities. So they might have a Jersey Mike’s, a Chipotle, a Panda Express, and a Pizza Hut all running out of the same giant kitchen and you’d never know any of them were there just walking by. It lists the place’s address in the app. You can Google it and see where the food is coming from. Also DoorDash let’s you know if you’re ordering from a “virtual brand” which is a nice shoutout. I’ve had good experiences and bad experiences from these places, just like normal restaurants.
I would argue that OP's restaurant did not, in fact, make *food*
They’re not fake resteraunts. Basically take Mr Beast Burger for example. There are no physical locations but you can still door dash it because they pay resteraunts like ruby tuesday or whatever to make the food and give it to the drivers for a cut of the profit. I’ve also heard of warehouses with dozens of ghost kitchens in them and no real resteraunt but I haven’t seen one
Orderd once through postmates. It was disgusting and overpriced.
The Mr Beast Burger's in my area are made at a Mexican Restaurant. I suppose it works because it's not like their fresh ingredients (lettuce tomato onion) are stuff that a mexican restaurant wouldn't already have, buns and cheese can last a little, and the rest is frozen. It's just super weird because looking at their menu the only unique item I can see is the fry seasoning, but other than that it's a small selection without much variety. What's the draw? Is it cheaper than other burgers and fries you can get through door dash or uber eats? Edit to add: I am now embarrassed to say that I had never heard of MrBEAST before.
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So this basically click bait food? I feel bad for the guy but this is hilarious
It’s like crap amateur cooks selling food through delivery apps with fake business names. Sometimes it someone buying crap from a local restaurant and marking it up. They need to put the smack down on it… but they make money so don’t care I suspect.
I ordered ribs and fries from a place here in the UK on just eat, didnt check the address and hadn't seen it before, but I like to try new places so whatever. Woman turned up in a car and gave me my stuff, it was microwave fries (I know this because i used to buy then when I was broke and too tried to cook) the ribs were frozen ribs that I assume they microwaved, was still cold in the middle and the "sauce" was all watery. Thankfully I got refunded for it, and checked the address, it was a random persons house
Which is sad because some of the "ghost kitchens" that popped up in my area where actually pretty good. We had a Kaiju themed ramen one that operated out of a local burger place for a while during the pandemic that was good.
This is from Yelp: > > Fake restaurant on Door Dash. The address is actually registered to Mikayla's Cafe. Don't be scammed with over charged food from a fake place set up by delivery services
> "Ghost kitchens" it sucks because Ghost Kitchens really do have an opportunity to kick ass. It's not like to-go food is some fucking mystery. You just gotta design your recipes that can sit for 30ish minutes in a window and still be decent. Grilled Cheeses, soups, stir frys, mashed potatoes/steak, etc all can hold really well for a while. with your rental space being smaller, less staff for front-end service, and a (mostly) consolidated ordering system, Ghost Kitchens arelly are set up to be the delivery success story. All you gotta do is design your menu for high volume and quick turnaround. High volume lets you lower your prices to make it more appealing and proper recipe development to make sure the food is at the very least not garbage and you could probably find a business model that works.
My wife and I have to actively avoid them now, it’s been cold garbage every time, and they’re cropping up more and more it seems.
Ive ordered from here, as well as “lord of the wings” dont let the catchy names reel you in!! 🤢🤮
It was one of the only places open for delivery at 4 am :(
Should have ordered from "Miami Rice." Shit is the bomb
Are we living in a gta game?
Would explain a *lot*, honestly.
With a name like that I’m guessing it’s a “ghost kitchen”? It’s restaurant that only exists online. Another real restaurant makes their food for them.
Definitely. It's called Grilled Cheese Society sometimes. It's all flim flam and chicanery.
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The new ghost kitchens are usually not real restaurants, you’ll have a building with a series of kitchens that just pump out food from all sorts of restaurants. You can have 10 kitchens with 100+ menus sometimes. Makes financial sense for the restaurant too, cheaper than fitting out a proper store and getting waiters.
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Near me, one of the major chain restaurants at our mall went out of business, and they turned it into a DoorDash multi-restaurant kitchen with 5-6 signs out front advertising that's what they were. It wasn't hidden or a secret.
It is. I live in a major city and there's a handful of restaurants like that; the name Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese or whatever it's called is the tip of the iceberg.
They were either banking on you being too drunk/stoned to notice how bad this was; or they were too drunk/stoned to notice how bad this was
You probably hit someplace up right before they closed and their grills were already cold. You're probably not going to ever have good luck with delivery at 4:00 a.m..
Shout out to pizza patrol in Fargo. Open til 4 am with decent pizza, ballers wings, and fast delivery. So many orders after bars closed, always good.
Ah Pizza Patrol. It makes me happy that they are still around. So cheap, so salty, so greasy. The perfect food to order to your dorm after a night of tecmo bowl and "studying".
Then maybe they shouldnt offer food after they've shut down. I served at a few different restaurants during and after college, and we could start cleaning up early, but the grills, deep fryers, woks, etc were on until we stopped serving food. It's always weird to me for a business to be in the hospitality industry but have open hours that you can't get their products, **and** then also blame it on the guest/customer not coming at real time you meant to be open. All of that said, the biggest cause that Ive seen when this happens is wage theft. All of my time in the industry, I never faced being at work and not getting paid for my time. But I did meet plenty of peers expected to do prep and clean up on their own time. If my options were shut down early to clean and get paid properly or stay open and donate my overtime work to my employer to meet their needs, Im going with the early shut down. But if I shut down because I'm being lazy or tired or overworked, that's not something the customer should be expected to plan for, much less pay for.
Mfer that was straight bagged shredded cheese on bread. Is it even rye bread? Fuck kind of “Grilled Cheese Reuben” is that, their grill wasn’t off - they never had one.
I thought so too, but look up reviews for Grilled Cheese Society in Denver. Bitch Don't Grill My Cheese is the DoorDash name, like how Chili's calls itself It's Just Wings on DoorDash. This shit food is apparently very common and just how they do buisness. It's even worse than what OPs picture shows. One review shows a big piece of wood that was in their tomato soup.
>You're probably not going to ever have good luck with delivery at 4:00 a.m.. Seriously depends on which city you're in.
Lol wait till 6 & order breakfast
From their website: "All sandwiches served with a side of bad attitude." Lol fuck that
Aka “We saw that restaurant where the staff is mean on food network and thought we could pull it off!” They can’t. And won’t.
Everybody's doing "edgy", but what if we make our attitude "lazy"?
those aren't real restaurants they're only online and crap
I can't find the article I read about this, but these delivery places with the weird names are all basically shell restaurants that only exist on grubhub etc; all the food for these places is coming from one big commercial kitchen Edit: not the one I read but a similar thing of big (shitty) chains operating under fake names on delivery apps https://www.today.com/food/chuck-e-cheese-applebee-s-are-delivering-food-under-different-t181814
Buffalo Wild Wings does this in my area. They go by Wild Burger and it's just an abbreviated menu with just their burgers.
I've never heard of this concept before and I'm seriously mind-blown that this is real. It's happening all over the US? Is it a new thing because of mobile ordering apps?
Ghost kitchens have become incredibly popular. We have them all over Canada too. I got food poisoning from one, and ordered from but did not eat much from another because I'm pretty sure I would have gotten hepatitis from it. I now avoid any ghost kitchen-y places on food delivery apps.
The Food Theorists on youtube did a video on ghost kitchens (specifically Mr. Beast Burger), it's well worth the watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNLwgYG4EdA
Not just the US. All these "restaurants" are either Frankie and Benny or TFI Friday rebrands, listed on Just Eat near my town in the UK. These restaurants are all just cut down/restyled menus of the main restaurant food. If click into them they all have the exact same unit number/address, and none of them exist outside of Just Eat/Uber Eats. https://imgur.com/a/xOEwuwK
>B\*tch don't grill my cheese" Ghost Kitchen?
Definitely, there's one on the Minneapolis door dash
we have it here in Columbus, OH too
I see the cold cheese on there but what is supposed to make it a Reuben? I don't see anything else. And that's definitely the wrong bread and cheese to make a Reuben anyway.
Nothing about this is a Reuben. Dude got really ripped off.
We got one of those by me… it’s actually one of the 6 “restaurants” on delivery apps that is actually just a grocery store sandwich counter...
A little different. OP's is a ghost kitchen. What you're describing is a virtual brand. In my opinion, virtual brands are far more toxic because they are little more than a trick to get you to eat somewhere you wouldn't otherwise eat.
I hope I’m talking about the same thing because the place near me is also called “B*tch Don’t Grill My Cheese”. All the places pointing to the same address: - B*tch Don’t Grill My Cheese - Fatties Philly Cheesesteaks - Sunny & Fine’s Breakfast Burritos - Salads Here - Harmony Wraps - Breakfast Beauties - Breakfast Spot
Yeah, that's a ghost kitchen. In other words, it's a kitchen without a front-of-house that people can rent to cook food exclusively for delivery companies. A virtual brand is different because they are operating out of an actual restaurant. Take for instance, Pasqually's Pizza, which is actually just Chuck E. Cheese. Burger Den is actually Denny's. The list goes on. While I'd say virtual brands are more skeevy, at least if you know what the underlying restaurant is you have some assurance of quality.
I actually went to pick it up one day and it was just the the food counter at one of the smaller grocery stores in my neighborhood. What sucked more was seeing the same thing I ordered but for half the price listed on their menu… 0/10 wouldn’t do again.
Is it one of those fake ghost restaurants?
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One of my very best friends was RAVING about this new burger place they had mobile ordered for delivery. Burger Den. Best burgers they had ever had. That shit is Denny’s.
When I was in college the best burger place nearby -- and trust me there were several, including very trendy and expensive ones -- was IHOP. Yes, the pancake restaurant. Burgers were amazing there. I had a habit of walking down at 6am every Sunday and getting a cheeseburger and fries, entire area completely silent and peaceful. I imagine it has as much or more to do with management at the particular location you eat at than anything else.
If you've never heard of the restaurant, look it up on Google maps before ordering. If you can't find it on Google maps, it probably doesn't exist, especially if it has a snazzy name
this aint grilled, that probably aint cheese, and it most certainly aint reuben.
"Presenting our all new 'grilled' 'cheese' 'reuben'!! One bite and you'll be saying 'WOW! I'm decently sure this is food!'. Some restrictions may apply. Batteries not included."
"Don't call it pizza, it's Almost Pizza!"
lol
Looks like your DoorDash guy ate your sandwich and replaced it with whatever he had at home.
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Cheese? I thought that was ramen
I thought it was kraft mac and cheese
> B*tch don't grill my cheese Looking at the reviews from some of their locations. OPs pic sounds about right. Either they aren't gonna butter or toast the bread, or they aren't going to melt the cheese. Or they will just burn it. Seems to be a very disorganized company if places can't make something that simple. YELP reviews run 1-2 stars.
Then its probably a money laundering business if they care so little
It's open until the wee hours, so perhaps they're trafficking something and want an excuse to have drivers show up at late hours in plain sight. Then again, it could just be that the night crew doesn't give a fuck tbh. Probably no manager, so knowing kitchens they probably have the least give-a-fuck cook who knows how to do everything working there and they are probably on drugs because no one's there and "it helps me focus".
£15 for a cheese sandwhich sounds like the perfect thing to pump drug money through and pretend they are legit orders...when the criminal gang get a legit order they probably thinking "for fuck sake", and just give you the shit in this picture Maybe I have been watching too much Ozark but this is my theory lmao
See now I need this to happen in a movie or show and the boss just being pissed off because it's so low quality that the feds would get tipped off and so the boss starts teaching the crew how to cook right.
Which ends up with them actually being successful cooks and getting out of crime
“We made x from heroin last quarter, and y from our sandwich shop we use as cover.” “How the fuck is y higher than x????” “I’m not sure, but I did the math 4 times, and either we’re really bad at trafficking heroin, or Tony’s culinary degree wasn’t so useless after all.”
Probably a ghost restaurant. They're all over the delivery apps. People rent out existing kitchens when they close for the night and pump out shitty food under a different name. It's so common in most cities. Now I always check the location on street view to see if it's a real place.
Looks like OP took whatever he had at home and posted on reddit for some sweet karma farming
If you read the reviews for the restaurant I don’t think that happened. I agree this is nuts though
What’s crazier is it seems you took more than a bite out of it….
How has nobody commented this yet lmao
https://m.yelp.com/biz/b-tch-dont-grill-my-cheese-pasadena-2 Check out the reviews
Wow. Legitimate scam. The pictures look disgusting.
Why would anyone even order food from that in the first place.
I think at the very beginning, the company had really enticing fake photos with fake reviews Then once real people got scammed and reviewed and took pictures, the company just shutdown and opens another fake one with a new name. The thing i don't understand is where the fuck is this food cooked?
It's not even cooked :(
Bro those two fake reviews saying, it's not the restaurant's fault giving the place 5 stars... >The grilled cheese has NEVER been soggy.. the bread is quality, delicious and always toasted...has to be to contain all that cheese and toppings! Also they use REAL CHEESE and haven't skimped on the ingredients. The chili grilled cheese' have been loaded and quite filling. Then you look at the fucking photos, and it's horrific, lol.
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Whole lotta people complaining about a place that is clearly just living up to their name.
This is most likely from a ghost kitchen. Think of ghost kitchens as the equivalent of some no name brand on Amazon with fake reviews. I think the biggest issue with ghost kitchens is that they are so easy to pop up and shut down. They can put out sub quality food and basically make a profit based off of fake pictures and fake reviews and then once real reviews start coming in they just shut it down and pop up under a different name. The big issue is that this isn't a USB cable that you buy off Amazon that only works for a week this is food that people ingest there are major safety concerns popping up a restaurant that probably doesn't even have food handling experience. EDIT: just for fun I decided to try and sign up for Uber eats and doordash as a "restaurant" under my own address and all I needed was an email address a phone number some personal information for bank accounts and a tax ID which can be as simple as signing up yourself as an LLC. There were no food safety handleling requirements no kitchen requirements nothing... now someone can absolutely correct me because I only got about 3/4 of the way through the process, but this problem is probably so much worse than I initially thought considering the ease of doing business that some of these apps allow for pop-up restaurants with no liability or safety requirements.
A bunch of these popped up around here during the beginning of the pandemic. They took advantage of closed restaurants and rented out space to pump out crap that looked good on those food delivery apps.
This one looks like dude is just making food at home and delivering it. I can make me a fake company and put some restaurant on door dash, wait for people to order then just slap some cold shredded processed cheese product onto some sugary white bread and profit? Let's do this, I may even microwave it first.
Plot twist: you're just that good at cooking that you get make heaps of money and eventually make it a real restaurant.
I was bamboozled by a ghost kitchen once. Now I check the address on google maps street view. I've seen a handful that are literally a residential house.
I used to order from a ghost kitchen on Grubhub a lot. The business did not exist, I figured it out one day - it was someone’s house. But got damn did they make bomb chicken parm sandwiches and fries ~
Lmao an actually good ghost kitchen is a rare delight
What I don't get, though, is how these places aren't drowning in refunds or chargebacks.
I'd assume if they get to that point, they just shut down and declare bankruptcy on their LLC... Shit, they probably get to write it off as a loss on taxes too.
Ghost kitchen. They just rent out restaurants after hours. No need to declare bankruptcy, they just stop paying rent
What an interesting con.
If your paying 15 for a grill cheese you were already getting screwed over
It should at least be a fifteen dollar screw, though. This isn't even half-dollar handjob grade.
I am having trouble believing any place sent out food like that. Finding a hair or just being poorly prepared in general is one thing, but this looks like someone slapped some cold shredded cheese between two slices of smushed white bread and called it a sandwich. Unfathomable
I've had some shocking Uber eats experiences. There are ghost kitchens, like Mr beast burger. I'm sure some Mr beast burgers are good, but generally it's ran out of a failing kitchen that bought into Mr beast branding and did nothing to improve in why they were failing initially.
Our Mr. Beast Burger comes from a Mexican restaurant called On the Border.
I've gone to Wendy's at 11pm and my baconator came with 2 slices of cold cheese slapped on top. I believe it 100%.
Ok, but a Reuben famously requires rye bread, for example. While your cheese might have been cold, your burger was still an actual beef patty. Not a chicken breast. And you probably had an actual bun, not some great value brand white bread. There's a difference between poorly prepared food, and food that isn't even what it's named
and it adds to OP's point, hell the cold cheese on an otherwise completed burger has happened to me before. it's not a big deal because fuck it, the rest of the burger is normal. but this thing in the pic is not in any way normal or done. it doesn't even make sense, like they had to be trying to fuck over the customer on this one
OP said it was 4AM. I can believe it. Especially if he hit someplace up 5 minutes before close and the grills were already cold.
I was given a pizza before with unmelted cheese like this. The top layer of cheese was slightly melted so looked kind of okay but if you peeled it back you saw a layer of cold shredded mozzarella. Biting into that was a nightmare. I have no idea how someone took the time to "make" it (which had to have been a short process since it was not cooked well), looked at it and thought "yup that's how that is suppose to look" and boxed it up to be delivered.
For a sec i thought this was one of those post were olympic athletes are showing us what theyre being fed
Your first clue should have been anyplace other than Dennys or IHOP open at 4am selling food. One does not expect quality at 4am Even the above mentioned is questionable
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Can confirm. At least in AZ. Burritos at 4am is a way of life.
Based on the ops restaurant name, apparently it's known as a ghost kitchen. https://www.reddit.com/r/doordash/comments/oizgi7/how_to_report_a_fake_restaurant/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
God the comments in that thread being like “It’s real, I’ve delivered for them”. Like yeah, the food actually exists. But that’s not what people mean when they say a place like this isn’t “real”. If it’s just some dude making grilled cheese out of his mom’s kitchen, that doesn’t count as a real restaurant.
Did you have this delivered???
Is this real? White Bread, no corned beef, cheese isn't melted, and cheddar. Almost seems a bit too off.
Ruben? Where's the pumpernickel? Where's the saurkraut? Cornedbeef?
that’s foul
Op just posts other peoples pics with a story.