Travis Kalanick’s Cloudkitchens Closes Its East Oakland Ghost Kitchen Complex, Looking to Sell the Place

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/11/17/travis-kalanicks-cloudkitchens-closes-its-east-oakland-ghost-kitchen-complex-looking-to-sell-the-place/Maybe ghost kitchens aren’t scaring up as much business these days, as Uber founder Travis Kalanick just shut down a ghost kitchen that his new megabucks startup Cloudkitchens opened there five years ago.   We first became aware of this concept called “ghost kitchens" just before the pandemic hit, as websites were promoting "restaurants" on DoorDash and Grubhub that were actually just ramshackle trailers with half-ass kitchens in them and maybe a porta-potty outside. But as the tech industry does, they not only presented these fly-by-night operations as real restaurants, the ghost kitchens also infamously impersonated a