Saudis Back Travis Kalanick’s New Startup

Makes sense. Why get the blood money via proxy through Softbank when you can simply get the blood money straight from the source?

This could actually be a viable business if they don't overextend themselves. However I question whether operating their own restaurants within the kitchens really makes sense long term. If they're doing it to test out the concept that's fine, but longer term it places them in direct competition with their prospective virtual restaurant customers (tenants).

Can somebody explain what a cloud kitchen is? What a terrible use of the already overloaded cloud.