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Smart Kitchen Roundup: Suvie Adds Air Fry to Cooking Robot, Combustion Launches ‘MeatNet Cloud’
It’s been a quiet summer in the world of kitchen tech, but over the past week, some interesting news has dropped. Here’s a roundup of the stories from this past […]
Blackbird Launches Blackbird Pay, a Blockchain-Powered Payment Network
Today Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty startup founded by former Resy and Eater founder Ben Leventhal, announced the launch of Blackbird Pay, a new restaurant payment network. Powered by the company’s […]
VDC Rolls Out Linked Eats, a ‘Value Layer’ Software That Optimizes Virtual Restaurant Operations
It’s no secret that the virtual restaurant space has struggled over the past few years. Longtime operators like Reef, Kitchen United, and NextBite have laid off employees, shut down locations, […]
A Look at the Vayu One Delivery Robot, Which Navigates Bike Lanes to Deliver Your Food
Ever since the founders of Skype launched Starship over eight years ago, we’ve seen an explosion of small-footprint delivery robots that navigate sidewalks to deliver their payloads to consumers. While […]
The Food Tech News Show: Food Tech Funding Down in 1H 2024
The Spoon has launched a new podcast! As listeners of the Spoon Podcast know, it’s been both a long-form interview show and a news show. Since those who listen to […]
Food AI Weekly Bulletin: Is AI-Washing a Problem For Food Tech?
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Food AI Weekly Bulletin, our weekly wrapup that highlights important happenings at the intersection of AI and food. If you’d like to sign […]
Chef Robotics Comes Out of Stealth to Show Off Robot and Reveal Early Customers
This week, Chef Robotics, the San Francisco-based food robotics startup founded by Rajat Bhageria, stepped out of stealth mode and into the spotlight by unveiling its robot and disclosing some […]
The Food AI Weekly Bulletin: Will AI Fakery Make Restaurant Reviews a Thing of the Past?
Welcome to the Food AI Weekly Bulletin, our new weekly wrapup that highlights important happenings at the intersection of AI and food. Nowadays, there’s a lot of noise around how […]
MOTO Pizza’s Lee Kindell Talks Drone Delivery and Humanoid Robots
Last week at SKS, we had a chance to sit down for an interview with MOTO founder Lee Kindell. Anyone who’s spent time with Lee knows he’s an enthusiastic proponent […]
Podcast: The Smart Kitchen Summit Recap
Last week, The Spoon and almost three hundred of our closest friends spent an eventful couple of days in Seattle, talking about how technology is transforming the consumer meal journey. […]
Scenes from Smart Kitchen Summit 2024
The Smart Kitchen Summit wrapped up this week, and boy, did we have a great time discussing how new technologies will drive the next wave of cooking and kitchen innovation! […]
A Decade Before The ChatGPT Recipe Craze, a Cooking Show Champ Helped IBM Train Chef Watson
By now, most everyone has tried their hand at prompt engineering ChatGPT or another LLM to create a decent recipe. But a decade and a half ago, well before the […]
Tovala’s Keeley Kabala: Success in Smart Kitchen Requires Listening to Your Customers
Back in 2016, an early-stage startup called Tovala appeared in just the second Smart Kitchen Summit Startup Showcase. Company CEO David Rabie showed off the first-gen oven and discussed the […]
We Used CloudChef’s Cooking Guidance System to Cook Like a Chef
Earlier this month, we visited Google in Chicago, where we got a chance to put the Cloudchef cooking guidance system through its paces. For those not familiar with Cloudchef, the […]
Meet the SKS 2024 Startup Showcase Finalists
Ever since we launched the Smart Kitchen Summit {SKS} in 2015, one of the most popular parts of the conference is the Startup Showcase, where attendees get a glimpse at […]
The Story of Chefee with Assaf Pashut
There’s been no shortage of cooking robot startups in the past few years, but most are focused on commercial kitchens. It’s for good reason: consumers tend to like appliances we’re […]
Waring and Planit Protein Debut Fermentation Appliance for Chefs to Create Plant-Based Proteins
This week at the National Restaurant Show, commercial equipment provider Waring and Planit Protein debuted a new commercial fermentation system to create plant-based proteins in commercial kitchens. The new system, […]
Halla’s Spencer Price: Grocers Will Create ‘Unique Grocery Store for Every Shopper’ in The Future
Next up in our Smart Kitchen Summit speaker preview series is Spencer Price, the founder of Halla. Halla has built an AI personalization and recommendation platform for grocery store providers. According […]
SKS 2024 Preview: Clayton Wood Talks The Current State of Food Robotics
We’re just one month away from the Smart Kitchen Summit, so we’re going to be checking and hearing from some of our speakers. First up is Clayton Wood, a long-time […]
Why GFA’s Unceremonious Drop of Climax is a Big Win For the Company & the Plant-Based Cheese Category
For the past week, the alt-protein world has been abuzz about the news that the Good Food Awards had quietly dropped Climax Food from the list of finalists and, according […]
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