DoorDash offers one kitchen for many restaurants

An on-demand delivery platform is opening a shared commissary kitchen.

DoorDash is launching a new to-go-only concept called DoorDash Kitchens, Located in Redwood City, Calif., DoorDash Kitchens enables local and national restaurants including Nation's Giant Hamburgers, Rooster & Rice, Humphry Slocombe, and The Halal Guys to offer delivery, pickup, and group order options to consumers in the California Peninsula area.

DoorDash Kitchens provides on-demand delivery access from restaurants to customers across seven Bay Area markets including Atherton, Belmont, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Carlos, and Woodside. Pickup options are available to customers in 13 suburban markets including Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, Foster City, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, Sunnyvale, and Woodside.

Customers within range of DoorDash Kitchens can open up the DoorDash app and find these restaurants in their feed. To celebrate the grand opening, DoorDash is offering $0 delivery fees to DoorDash Kitchens' restaurants including Nation's Giant Hamburgers, Rooster & Rice, Humphry Slocombe, and The Halal Guys through the end of the year.

With DoorDash Kitchens, foodservice retailers can gain access to new customers in neighboring communities without the same overhead costs involved in opening additional store locations. DoorDash Kitchens provides the infrastructure, maintenance, marketing, and last-mile logistics, offering an end-to-end online sales and delivery solution.

DoorDash works in partnership with each merchant, co-designing the DoorDash Kitchens' space with the restaurants to customize the environment to their needs. DoorDash Kitchens will build a team of up to 50 full- or part-time employees in the Redwood City area as well as offer flexible work opportunities for contract drivers. Leveraging shared space, DoorDash hopes to empower restaurants to offer new menu offerings and pairings unique to DoorDash Kitchens.

"We are constantly working on innovations that help merchants find new, meaningful ways to reach customers and run their businesses more efficiently," said Fuad Hannon, head of new business verticals at DoorDash. "We launched DoorDash over six years ago in the Peninsula, and can't wait to bring even more selection to the local community we know and admire."

DoorDash operates in more than 4,000 cities across all 50 states.