Takeaway transformed: Inside the food delivery revolution
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Stepping into a 'dark kitchen', Sheila Dillon explores why takeaway apps are changing food culture and explores how delivery is offering a lifeline under lockdown and diversifying to help people in need. She hears stories from restaurants turning to delivery to stay in business and the people dropping groceries at people's doors and getting food to those who don't have a home.
Presenter: Sheila Dillon Producer: Tom Bonnett
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| 0:50.5 | Welcome. and Tom. Welcome to the food program. |
| 0:56.0 | That place for Hungry Minds. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Sheila Dillon and today we're looking at how food delivery has evolved over the past few years with apps such as deliveroo and |
| 1:06.1 | moved at lightning speed over the last three weeks as we've had to retreat into our homes |
| 1:11.8 | and restaurants have been switching to pure delivery. |
| 1:15.0 | First I'm going to take you to a place I visited just before I began isolating a dark kitchen. |
| 1:22.0 | Before the pandemic changed the world, more and more fast food |
| 1:27.0 | chains, good food mini chains and just playing good restaurants, ones that used |
| 1:31.5 | Uber eats, just eat Deliverer, had decided to move some of their |
| 1:35.8 | cooking to kitchens with lower rents, away from the high street. |
| 1:41.0 | They're often windowless shipping containers under flyovers or, like where I am now, under |
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