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Meet The Reimagining Restaurants Podcast, and Check Out The First Episode With Wow Bao’s Geoff Alexander

October 28, 2024 Michael Wolf

Here at The Spoon, we’ve covered hundreds of restaurant operators over the past half-decade, in part because we love restaurants and restaurant tech, but mostly because restaurant operators are some […]

The Spoon Weekly: Another Shazam for Food, Alexa Debuts New Meal-Rec-Tech

November 26, 2021 Michael Wolf

Snap The Latest to Create a ‘Shazam for Food’ Haven’t we seen this episode before? While many of us had a good laugh back when Silicon Valley’s Jian-Yang launched a Not Hot Dog app, […]

Amazon Alexa Expands Food Personalization Features With Launch of ‘What to Eat’

November 22, 2021 Michael Wolf

Last week, Amazon launched a new personalized meal recommendation feature for Alexa called ‘What to Eat?’. The new capability, which was part of a slate of new features for Alexa […]

Ember Shuffles CEOs, Jim Rowan Takes Over Consumer Division, Clay Alexander Becomes Group CEO

February 11, 2021 Chris Albrecht

Precision heating tech company Ember announced today that it has tapped Jim Rowan to be the new CEO of Ember’s consumer division. At the same time, the company announced that […]

Bosch Enlists Alexa and SideChef to Teach People How to Use Its Ovens

December 4, 2020 Chris Albrecht

Ovens are getting fancier with new connectivity and automated cook programs. Someone replacing a traditional oven they’ve had for decades with a newfangled smart oven could be forgiven for not […]

Amazon Alexa Getting Better at Guessing Follow Up Requests

November 11, 2020 Chris Albrecht

One big area where virtual assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant fall short of real human assistants is their inability to contextualize and anticipate what you’ll want next. Currently, […]

Amazon’s Alexa Fund Invests in At-Home Vertical Farming Company Rise Gardens

October 13, 2020 Jennifer Marston

Rise Gardens announced today it has received an investment from the Amazon Alexa Fund that builds upon a $2.6M seed round Rise closed in May. The amount invested by the […]

“Alexa, Look Into My Eyes”: New Prototype Combines Human Gaze with Voice Control to Help You Cook

September 11, 2020 Michael Wolf

There’s no doubt that voice control interfaces like Alexa and Google have had a huge impact on the way we search for recipes, access our appliances and add things to […]

KidKraft’s New Toy Features a Smart Kitchen and Market Powered by Alexa and RFID

February 24, 2020 Chris Albrecht

Perhaps we’ve been going about the roll out of the smart kitchen all wrong. Instead of debuting new, fully functioning–and expensive—smart fridges every year, we should just sit back and […]

Food Tech News: KFC Canada Partners with Alexa, Blockchain and a New Peanut Allergy Drug

February 8, 2020 Catherine Lamb

Pat yourself on the back — you made it to February. We’re in the thick of winter and here at The Spoon we’re busier than ever reporting on news and […]

Alexa Adds Thousands Of Buzzfeed Tasty Recipes To Echo Show

November 13, 2019 Michael Wolf

This week Amazon and Buzzfeed announced a partnership that brings thousands of Buzzfeed Tasty’s famous quick-play social videos to Amazon’s video-enabled digital assistants. According to email sent to The Spoon, […]

Amazon Announces its Own Alexa Enabled Smart Oven

September 25, 2019 Chris Albrecht

Amidst the many, many (manymanymanymany) announcements Amazon threw out at its special event here in Seattle today was its brand new Alexa enabled smart oven. The Amazon Smart Oven is […]

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