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The Food Tech News Show: A Look at Our Food Lives in The Year 2055
Welcome to the Food Tech News Show! You can watch the show live here at 1 Pacific/4 Eastern or on Streamyard, YouTube, or LinkedIn. This week Mike and Carlos be […]
Report: Diners Opting for Restaurant-Specific Apps & Kiosks While Deemphasizing 3rd-Party Delivery
A new report published by Tillster shows that quick-service restaurant customers are increasingly opting to use restaurant-specific apps over 3rd party delivery apps. The report, which analyzed the results of […]
Restaurant Cashier Zooms In to Work, Press Freaks Out. Better Get Ready for Lots More Change at Checkout
This week, a raft of news stories about an encounter with a cashier manning the checkout remotely from a distant location went viral. Dozens of shock-take articles proliferated after a […]
Big Tech Set Its Sights on Reinventing Checkout. Consumers Said ‘Not So Fast’
When it comes to technology and grocery shopping, one primary focus for grocery chains and technology providers in recent years has been the checkout experience. Amazon and various other technology […]
The Food Tech News Show: Apple’s Building Home Robots!
Join us at 1 PM Pacific where we’ll be talking about the food tech stories of the week! This week, we’ll be joined by Scott Heimendinger, former founder of Sansaire […]
Food Tech Weekly: AI’s Impact on Food Accelerating, Whirlpool Lays Off Yummly Team
This is the online version of The Spoon Newsletter. You can subscribe to The Spoon and get deliver director to your inbox. Over the past month, we’ve seen more and […]
Weekly Food Tech News Show: Wither Magic Spoon?
On this week’s Food Tech News Show, Mike and Carlos welcome Rachel Konrad, former head of communications for The Production Board, Impossible Foods and Tesla. The stories we catch up […]
Podcast: The Story of Mill With Matt Rogers
If you follow the world of kitchen and consumer food tech startups, you know there hasn’t been much in the way of venture-funded startups targeting food waste in the home. […]
Pitchbook: Food Tech Funding Dropped Almost 60% in 2023
The food tech sector navigated rough waters in 2023, as venture capital funding experienced a significant downturn for the second consecutive year. According to Pitchbook’s Q4 2023 report, food tech […]
The Food Tech News Show: Behold, The Humanoid Kitchen Robot is Here
This week, the Spoon crew got together to discuss some of the big stories of the week on a new weekly video news show we’re launching called The Food Tech […]
Watch The Figure 01 Robot Feed A Human, Sort The Dishes, And Stammer Like Us Meatbags
While much of the startup funding for food-centric robots has been for task-specific fast-automation from the likes of Picnic Robot and Chef Robotics, some of the more intriguing – and […]
Why a Small Startup in the Middle of Valencia May Be Leading the Wireless Energy & Invisible Cooktop Trend
About a decade ago, IKEA famously released a concept video laying out its vision for the kitchen of the future. The central concept for their envisioned future kitchen was a […]
Fresco Locks Up Deal To Bring Kitchen OS to Middleby Consumer Kitchen Brands
This week, smart kitchen startup Fresco announced it had struck a deal with Middleby to integrate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform across the cooking equipment giant’s residential portfolio, starting with […]
GE Appliances Debuts EcoBalance and Its Vision of the Kitchen as Integral Part of the Home’s Energy Management Network
This week at KBIS, Haier subsidiary GE Appliances focused much of its, um, energy on getting the message out about its new EcoBalance Home System, a new whole-home home systems […]
Big Idea Ventures’ GFRP Fund Acquires Edible Packaging Startup DisSolves
Today, Generation Food Rural Partners I, LP (GFRP), a member fund that is part of the food tech investor Big Idea Ventures (BIV) family, has announced its acquisition of DisSolves, […]
Chef Robotics Raises $14.75M To Automate Food Assembly in Commercial Kitchens
We’ve been tracking Chef Robotics before it was even called that when the company’s CEO and founder, Rajat Bhageria, spoke at The Spoon’s food robotics conference ArticulATE in 2019. At […]
After Over Half a Decade in Development, Ovie Ships Food Freshness Trackers
Since I first saw the Ovie team standing in a small booth in the bottom floor of the Sands Convention Center during CES 2018, I’ve been following them to see […]
January AI’s New App Uses Generative AI to Predict How Food Will Impact Your Blood Sugar
If you’ve been diagnosed with a metabolic health issue, you might have used a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) at some point to track the impact of your food intake on […]
Watch This Tour of The Yo-Kai Boba Robot at CES 2024
In what seems to be an annual occurrence at this point, this year Yo-Kai introduced a new robotic food kiosk and drew huge crowds at CES. This year, it was […]
The Guide to Grilling & BBQ Tech at CES 2024
While grilled food may not be ranked as highly as ice cream in our best-things-in-life lists , it’s not far behind. So it’s no surprise that we’re finding lots of […]
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