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Abstract Purpose: The motive of this investigation was to give a bibliometric analysis on kitchen operations. An aggregate of 172 research articles published between 2005 and 2025 January are viewed and utilized by the author. The research attempts to recognize the noteworthy journals in this area, times with the highest number of publications, utmost cited papers, significant authors, countries and institutions. Also, the co-authorship network chart and keyword co-occurrences network charts are handed. Design/ Methodology/ Approach – The Web of Science database was used for analysing the data about colourful papers included in this study. also, the VOS viewer software was used for creating a co-authorship network chart and keywords-occurrences network charts. Findings – The outcomes of this research specified the year 2024 marked the highest numbers of research papers published. The most prominent journal in the research area is ‘International Journal in Hospitality Management’ and the research paper viewed several times is ‘Greening the hospitality industry: How do green human resource management practices influence organizational citizenship behaviour in hotels? A mixed-methods study’. Furthermore, the most prominent author is Prof Ki-Joon Back, and the most prolific country and organisation are the Peoples R China, United States of America and Sichuan University, China, University of Houston and University of Houston System, city of Texas in USA. Originality value –This research identified the existing literature on kitchen operations in hotels and restaurants. A significant, broad, and valuable picture of this area is provided by using the bibliometric process. The findings will help in creating future research on this topic by the various authors.

Keywords: Kitchen Operations, Restaurants, Hotels, Bibliometric analysis, VOS viewer.