Hidden 'members only' site is behind one of Manchester's most talked about takeaways

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It’s a love story with just the slightest sheen of burger grease. Ryan and Megan, who are to be married in September, met three years ago when she picked up one of Ryan’s burger-making meal kits during lockdown from his Swinton burger restaurant, That Burger Place.

They bonded like one pattie bonds to another, though without the layer of melted American cheese. Fast forward three years and they’re spending six days a week together working in a windowless kitchen on a Piccadilly trading estate, building their rapidly growing take-out business.

If you’ve ever wondered where some of your weekend or midweek takeaways come from, it could be that it’s a place like this. Along with Reddish-born I Knead Pizza, Salford burger sensation Burgerism, sushi specialists Asuke and a host of others, Ryan and Megan work out of Jacuna, a warren of industrial ‘dark kitchens’ in what appears to be an unlovely old office block, redeveloped and created especially for the revolution in food delivery (there are branches in London, Leeds and Birmingham too). Read more of Ben Arnold's food writing covering Greater Manchester... 'I had the best pie of my life on one of Manchester's last cobbled streets' The Thai cafe in the shadow of Strangeways where only one thing matters Businesses pay a 'membership fee' for an all-inclusive service at the facilities, which are open 24/7 - a central base from which to process orders flocking in from across the city.

For customers though, no membership is required to get food from these sites - although the ordering comes through apps, in That Burger Place's case - UberEats.