Hot off its recent acquisition of the 32,000-store Dunkin' Brands, Inspire Brands is moving forward on construction of a Atlanta-based virtual kitchen facility, called Alliance Kitchen, according to Atlanta city building permit records first made public in the Boston Business Journal,

The company plans to convert a 7,500-square-foot facility on Ellsworth Industrial Boulevard Northwest — near Dunkin's headquarters in Canton, Massachusetts — into a "catering and food-service kitchen" with a public lobby for delivery services. It will also include short-term parking at the cost of about $2.6 million.

Inspire Brands, which owns Dunkin', Arby's, Baskin-Robbins and Sonic Drive-In, as well as several fast casual concepts, first applied for and received a trademark for Alliance Kitchen last January, as QSRweb previously reported, but the brand declined to comment on that application.

Inspire closed on its Dunkn' Brands purchase this past December.

Ghost kitchens are quickly becoming an needed additional arm for quick-service concepts seeking to grow their coverage without some of the expenses involved in traditional store construction.

Inspire owns Arby's and Sonic, as well as the fast casual brands, Jimmy John's and Buffalo Wild Wings.

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