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Chipotle Is Test-Driving a Delivery-Only Restaurant

While restaurants that rely on dine-in business are barely making it through this year, a new restaurant model has surged in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic: the ghost kitchen. Ghost kitchens are essentially just industrial kitchen spaces that only offer delivery and pick-up, doing away with dine-in service entirely, in favor of virtual restaurants that live online. Mexican fast-casual chain Chipotle is the latest major restaurant to show interest in the ghost kitchen model, announcing Wednesday its “first-ever Chipotle digital-only