It wouldn’t be incorrect to argue that in the post-pandemic world, cloud kitchens have lost a bit of their sheen due to the combination of high platform commission and consumers’ growing inclination towards offline dining. That’s one reason these players have focused on strengthening their offline play over the past year or so. Binny Bansal’s Three State Ventures-backed Curefoods, for example, plans to open 50 restaurants this year and take the number of offline outlets to 115. At the moment it is present in 20-plus cities, with 260 cloud kitchens across the north, west , and south of India. Going