Deliveroo to open kitchen for restaurants in Tradeston

The company will offer space in a vacant building on Scotland Street to businesses who want to operate in Glasgow.

It believes the new kitchen, made up of nine pods, will create around 60 jobs, excluding delivery drivers.

Restaurant partners will not pay a rent to use the kitchen, with Deliveroo taking a commission against all orders made through its app instead.

The applicant claims the “concept provides a platform to support the restaurant industry, enabling restaurant partners to open in a new market without the up-front costs or risks of setting up and managing their own physical premises.

“Deliveroo Editions provides bespoke, fully-equipped, state of the art commercial kitchen units which are licensed and occupied by new and established restaurant partners.

“The kitchens are staffed and operated by the restaurant partners. Food is prepared and cooked within these kitchens by the restaurant partners and delivered to customers using Deliveroo’s fleet of riders.”

Each business will need to register separately with the council and they will not be able to trade from the kitchen if they score a food hygiene rating of three stars or less.

Deliveroo Editions appeals to “restaurants as it gives them the chance to launch, expand and test new innovations at minimal cost” at a time when “soaring costs are forcing many independent restaurants off the high streets”, the application claimed.

The food delivery company uses “insights to identify cuisine gaps in the local market and predicts which menu items will succeed in each area, thereby reducing the risk of business failure for restaurants”.

Partners will be able to access the site for food preparation from 8am before customers are allowed to place orders from 12pm. Last orders for the restaurants will be 10.45pm.

Deliveroo claims spaces in its kitchens are “often in high demand”, with the joining process taking between eight to 12 weeks.

They also work with restaurants to reduce food costs through a food procurement service — where “we look source the ingredients they need at lower prices”.

“At a time when costs of raw ingredients are increasing, this is an important way in which we can enable restaurants using Editions to focus investment on staff or reducing prices to consumers.

“Deliveroo is also helping these restaurants reduce their environmental impacts through schemes such as our partnership with Olleco, who recycle cooking oil.”