generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/sam-nazarian-buys-kitchen-united-ip-nextbite-c3-everybody-eats/710269/
company_status: defunct
summary: >-
  Kitchen United ceased operating as an independent ghost-kitchen company. Its
  physical footprint was closed or sold through late 2023 and early 2024, and its
  intellectual property and remaining ghost-kitchen assets were acquired in
  March 2024. There is no API lifecycle to record because Kitchen United never
  shipped a public developer API.
timeline:
- date: '2023-11'
  event: >-
    Kitchen United announces it will sell or close all remaining physical units
    and pivot to licensing the ordering software it built to run them.
  source: https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/kitchen-united-closes-kroger-units-sells-or-closes-the-rest-software-pivot/700900/
- date: '2024-02'
  event: >-
    Closure of all Kitchen United Mix physical locations becomes public,
    including the eight in-store Kroger food halls.
  source: https://smmirror.com/2024/02/ghost-kitchen-pioneer-kitchen-united-mix-abruptly-shuts-down-all-physical-locations/
- date: '2024'
  event: >-
    Remaining sites transferred to other operators — New York locations to
    Nimbus Kitchens, Austin to ChefSuite.
  source: https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/kitchen-united-closes-kroger-units-sells-or-closes-the-rest-software-pivot/700900/
- date: '2024-03-14'
  event: >-
    sbe and C3 founder Sam Nazarian acquires Kitchen United's IP and
    ghost-kitchen-related assets, folding them into the new holding company
    Everybody Eats alongside C3 and Nextbite.
  source: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sbe-and-c3-founder-sam-nazarian-acquires-kitchen-uniteds-ip--ghost-kitchen-related-assets-and-announces-the-new-holding-company-everybody-eats-a-premium-qsr-and-cpg-brand-company-comprised-of-c3-nextbite-and-kitchen-united-302089344.html
successor:
  name: Everybody Eats
  relationship: acquired-ip-and-assets
  parties:
  - C3
  - Nextbite
  - sbe
api:
  public_api: false
  openapi: none
  sdks: none
  cli: none
  developer_portal: none
  status_page: none
  deprecation_policy: none
  changelog: none
domain:
  host: kitchenunited.com
  resolves: true
  serving: >-
    Residual WordPress installation. The homepage retains the old Kitchen United
    Mix title, and the only other published page (/santamonica/, dated
    2026-03-28) is unrelated Thai-language gambling SEO spam. Treat the domain
    as abandoned/compromised rather than as an active company surface.
  probed: '2026-07-19'