# Kitchen United

> Kitchen United was a Pasadena, California ghost-kitchen operator that ran shared
> commissary kitchens ("Kitchen United Mix") where multiple restaurant brands cooked
> for delivery and pickup from one location, including in-store food halls with Kroger.
> The company wound down its physical footprint in late 2023 / early 2024, and on
> 2024-03-14 sbe/C3 founder Sam Nazarian acquired its IP and ghost-kitchen assets into
> the Everybody Eats holding company alongside C3 and Nextbite. Kitchen United is
> defunct and never published a public developer API.

Generated by the API Evangelist enrichment pipeline on 2026-07-19 from apis.yml and
the artifacts in this repository. Method: generated (no /llms.txt is published — the
docs host returns 404).

## Status

- Company status: defunct — operations wound down, IP and assets acquired March 2024.
- Public API: none. No OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL schema, SDK, CLI, MCP server or
  developer portal has ever been published.
- kitchenunited.com still resolves but serves a residual WordPress shell whose only
  remaining page is unrelated SEO spam. Do not treat it as a live developer surface.

## Artifacts

- Lifecycle and wind-down timeline: lifecycle/kitchen-united-lifecycle.yml
- Well-known discovery probe (all 404): well-known/kitchen-united-well-known.yml
- Domain security posture: security/kitchen-united-domain-security.yml
- APIs.json profile: apis.yml

## References

- https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/kitchen-united-closes-kroger-units-sells-or-closes-the-rest-software-pivot/700900/
- https://smmirror.com/2024/02/ghost-kitchen-pioneer-kitchen-united-mix-abruptly-shuts-down-all-physical-locations/
- https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/sam-nazarian-buys-kitchen-united-ip-nextbite-c3-everybody-eats/710269/