We've seen emergence of cloud kitchens recently, specifically thinking of companies like Rebel Foods, but even in the few images that Rebel Foods publishes, it doesn't look like the typical factory streamlined process. This video is one of the few things I could find, and even then I had to go out of my way to find it. Developments like these would really strengthen the working class by dropping the value of food.
Industrial kitchens are a thing, mostly in food manufacture as far as I know. You know, baking massive numbers of frozen meals or whatever to precise standards at a rapid pace.
idk, people do be individualizing shit. I sometimes yearn for the bygone days where you just showed up at an inn and they were like "Okay so your options are eternal stew with bread and cheese, or you can go hungry. What'll it be?" Restaurants should have one menu item with substitutions and shit for specific food needs.
lol, though, I just thought that apparently back in the day in China and it's environs "modern" sit down restaurants have been a thing for like 2k years, and of course cities throughout history had fast-food restaurants and food stalls and stuff.
That concept seems pretty in at the moment, I've seen a few small restaurants where the chef just cooks whatever they feel like that night and that's all you're getting. It's not cheap or communal though, they're usually pretty up-market.