UK, ordered Mexican on Deliveroo from a new place, turned up.

QR code on the bag led to a Linktree that just linked 3 delivery services. No other internet presence. Drove past the address from Deliveroo on my way home and it was a row of shopfronts with iirc a delivery pizza restaurant as the only food there.

But the food was so good that my hosts have kept on ordering from there.

In the UK, I've ordered from Deliveroo Editions, which is ghost kitchens with the branding and food of real restaurant chains. It's been OK, unsurprisingly a chain with 150 branches is just reheating something made in a factory, not tasting and adjusting. So by ordering from Deliveroo Editions you get the same thing.

The UK does have the predatory type of ghost kitchen as well and I have never ordered from them. The incentives are skewed towards getting new customers, not repeat ones, and just ripping off as many as you can find.

> Look, I order food online a lot, maybe more than I should. And some cloud kitchens here are great, they deliver good food at decent prices.

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