Kitchen United was a Pasadena, California-based ghost kitchen operator that built and ran shared commissary kitchen 'hub' facilities (later rebranded Kitchen United Mix) where restaurant brands could prepare food exclusively for delivery and takeout. Founded in 2017 by Harry Tsao and John Miller, the company expanded with notable backing from GV (Google Ventures), Fidelity, RXR, Kroger, Circle K parent Alimentation Couche-Tard, Restaurant Brands International, and others. It partnered with Kroger to operate in-store Mix Food Halls in seven supermarket locations. After raising approximately $175 million across Series A, Series B, and a $100M Series C in 2022, Kitchen United shuttered all Kroger locations in November 2023 and announced it would sell or close all remaining physical units to pivot to software. In March 2024, Sam Nazarian (founder/CEO of SBE and C3) acquired Kitchen United's IP and ghost-kitchen-related assets, folding them into a new holding company called Everybody Eats alongside C3 and Nextbite.
Kitchen United Mix has been acquired
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Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.
Founded
2017
Total Funding
$150M
3 rounds
Total raised $150M across 3 rounds
Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.
Last updated 06-25-2026
Latest Round
Type
Series C
Date
July 26, 2022
Amount
$100M
Valuation
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| Date | Round | Amount Raised | Valuation | Lead Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 26, 2022 | Series C | $100M | — | |
| September 19, 2019 | Series B | $40M | — | RXR, GV (Google Ventures) |
| October 8, 2018 | Series A | $10M | — | GV (Google Ventures) |
Michael Montagano
Chief Executive Officer (former)
Harry Tsao
Co-Founder
John Miller
Co-Founder
Jim Collins
Chief Executive Officer (former)
Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.
CloudKitchens
Travis Kalanick-founded ghost kitchen operator (City Storage Systems) that builds and leases delivery-only commissary kitchens; the most direct competitor in the U.S. shared-kitchen-real-estate model.
Reef Technology
Miami-based mobile/modular ghost kitchen and parking-lot logistics operator backed by SoftBank; another major U.S. ghost kitchen player that also retrenched heavily in 2023.
Nextbite
Virtual restaurant brand platform (formerly Ordermark) that licenses delivery-only brands to existing kitchens; later acquired by Sam Nazarian and folded into Everybody Eats alongside Kitchen United's IP.
C3 (Creating Culinary Communities)
Sam Nazarian-founded virtual restaurant/food-hall brand operator that ran delivery-only concepts out of hotels and shared kitchens; now part of Everybody Eats.
Local Kitchens
California-based 'micro food hall' operator running multi-brand restaurant locations for dine-in and delivery; competes for the same multi-restaurant-under-one-roof model.
Wonder
Marc Lore-founded multi-brand food platform (formerly mobile, now brick-and-mortar 'food halls' plus delivery) that occupies the multi-brand shared-kitchen niche Kitchen United Mix targeted.
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