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More US Restaurants Remove Dining Areas
Dining rooms are disappearing from restaurants in the United States, as Americans increasingly use apps to order food.
One example is the new Chopt Creative Salad Company restaurant, which opened last week in New York City. It is unlike any of the company's other 61 restaurants. It has no cash registers or dining tables.
Atlanta-based restaurant Chick-fil-A has similar locations in two cities: Nashville, Tennessee and Louisville, Kentucky. Customers order and prepay online. They can either go to the store for their meal or have it sent to them.
Chick-fil-A is also trying something different. The company has announced plans to set up three "delivery kitchens." In all three, Chick-fil-A will share space with other restaurants to prepare food for delivery only.
Digital orders are a major growth area for fast-food and fast-casual restaurant chains. More are turning to these dark, or ghost, kitchens to cut costs.
Wendy's, another fast-food business, announced last month that it aimed to open two "dark kitchens" by the end of the year.
Some food delivery-only operations in New York and San Francisco have failed in recent years.
But in January, Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens got a $400 million investment from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, Reuters reported. Kalanick is a co-founder of ride service Uber. The Wall Street Journal first reported the investment earlier this month.
CloudKitchens, founded in 2016, builds shared food preparation areas for delivery-only restaurants to rent.
Julie Atkinson is the Chief Marketing Officer for Chopt. She says the company offered pick-up and delivery orders soon after it opened 18 years ago. Today those orders make up nearly make up nearly half of its business at larger restaurants, she said.
"We are sensing a really huge customer need for speed, for convenience," she said. "We're hopeful that this concept really raises the bar on customer convenience."
On November 5, coffee house Starbucks opened its first Starbucks pickup store in the United States for online orders. The new store is similar to some new Starbucks stores in China, where digital ordering is more common.
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重点解析
1.make up 组成
But next year, tax rises will make up nearly half of it.
但明年，税收的增长将会弥补一半缩减的开支。
2.order food 订餐
Friends order food to share, not to eat separately.
朋友点菜是为了共同享用，不是分开来吃。
3.dining tables 餐桌
I prefer oblong dining tables to round ones.
我较喜欢长方形餐桌，而不喜欢圆形的。
4.food delivery 外卖
Most importantly, to ensure better quality, Little Sheep has brought much of the food delivery and processing in-house.
更重要的是，为保证质量，小肥羊自己加工运输绝大多数食品。
5.The new store is similar to some new Starbucks stores in China, where digital ordering is more common.
similar to 与...类似
My opinions are similar to his.
我和他的看法相似。
Let us suppose another planet with conditions similar to those on the earth.
让我们假定另外有一个具有和地球上相似条件的行星。
6.Some food delivery-only operations in New York and San Francisco have failed in recent years.
in recent years 近年来
India has witnessed many political changes in recent years
印度近年来经历了很多政治变动。
In recent years commercial, cultural, travel and other contacts have proliferated between Europe and China.
近年来，欧洲和中国之间的商业、文化、旅游及其他交往发展迅猛。
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越来越多的美国餐厅取消用餐区
随着美国人越来越多地使用app点餐，美国餐厅内的用餐区正在消失。
以上周纽约新开张的Chopt创意沙拉公司餐厅为例。它不同于该公司的其他61家分店。这家店没有收银机，也没有设餐桌。
亚特兰大的Chick-fil-A餐厅在田纳西州的纳什维尔和肯塔基州的路易斯维尔也设有类似的分店。客户在线订购和预付。他们可以去店内用餐，也可以选择送货上门。
Chick-fil-A餐厅也在尝试不同的方法。该公司已经宣布计划建立三家“外卖厨房”。在这三家餐厅中，Chick-fil-A将与其他餐厅共用空间，只提供外卖食品。
线上订餐成为快餐和休闲快餐连锁店的主要增长业务。更多的店家转向这些黑暗的，或幽灵般的厨房来削减成本。
另一家快餐企业Wendy's上月宣布，计划在今年年底前开设两家“黑暗厨房”。
近年来，纽约和旧金山的一些只提供食品配送的业务以失败告终。
但据路透社报道，今年1月，特拉维斯·卡兰尼克(Travis Kalanick)的cloudkitchen从沙特的主权财富基金获得了4亿美元的投资。卡兰尼克是Uber的联合创始人。《华尔街日报》本月早些时候首次报道了这笔投资。
成立于2016年的cloudkitchen建立了共享的食物准备区，只对仅提供外卖的餐厅出租。
朱莉·阿特金森(Julie Atkinson)是Chopt的首席营销官。她说，该公司在18年前开业后不久就开始提供取货和送货的订单。她说，如今这些订单几乎占该公司大型餐厅近一半的业务。
她说：“我们意识到顾客对速度和便利的需求非常大。”“我们希望这个概念真的能提高顾客的便利程度。”
11月5日，星巴克在美国开设了第一家在线订餐的星巴克皮卡专卖店。这家新店与中国的一些星巴克新店类似，在中国，线上订餐更为普遍。
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