Butler Hospitality
Total Raised
Undisclosed
Peak Valuation
Undisclosed
Employees
—
Year Collapsed
2023
Business model
Centralized ghost kitchens providing room service meals to multiple hotels simultaneously, letting hotels outsource room service without maintaining their own full kitchen staff.
In brief
Identified a genuinely underserved niche within the broader ghost kitchen boom — hotel room service, an amenity many hotels struggled to offer profitably with their own kitchens. As broader ghost kitchen economics soured industry-wide and hotel occupancy patterns remained uneven…
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Key facts
- Founded
- 2018
- Closed
- 2023
- Headquarters
- New York, USA
- Industry
- Food Tech / Hospitality
- Employees
- —
- Revenue
- Undisclosed
- Founders
- Sam Vasishtha, Chris Wolfe
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Often compared with: Kitchen United, Franklin Junction.