Serve anywhere: cooking up new business in virtual kitchens

Eva Short meets Sean Murray, whose Hosted Kitchens business is aiming to smarten up food services worldwide

Sean Murray, founder of Hosted Kitchens. ‘We scaled from a delivery company that was operating in four countries to a software company that operates in more than 100 countries.’ Picture: Fergal Phillips

Sean Murray, co-founder of Hosted Kitchens, the Irish virtual kitchen start-up, got into the business for a variety of reasons. One of them, however, was quite personal.

“In 2019, my brother was actually looking to set up his own delivery-only Korean food restaurant without opening a bricks-and-mortar place himself, and there was nobody doing it in Ireland at the time. So I decided, okay, if nobody’s doing this, and my brother has this problem, why ...