Category: Data Insights
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The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program released a new report yesterday on the future and impact of automation on the U.S. workforce. Predictably, food service jobs do not fare well. Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places forecasts automation trends across industries through 2030. From that report: Approximately 25 percent of U.S.…
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Amazon is famously secretive and vague with its stats, so we oftentimes have to look at outside sources to get a sense guess as to how various parts of the company are doing. Like a new survey out today from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (h/t Geekwire), which estimates that as of December 31, 2018, Amazon…
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Restaurant tech company Presto dropped a couple new products today for front-of-house operations in the restaurant: Presto Wearables and Presto A.I. These join Presto’s tabletop terminal, on which guests can order, pay, report feedback, and contact the manager if needs be. According to a press release, Presto Wearables are smartwatch-like devices that notify the servers…
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It being the time of year when most of us set some health-related goals, Lifesum picked an apt time to unveil its latest offering. Yesterday, the Swedish company officially unveiled a Google Assistant version of its nutrition app, which allows users to track meals, weight, and water intake using their voice instead of a phone or…
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Vertical farming got a lot of attention at the very end of 2018, from Bowery’s $90 million funding round to news of major corporations starting their own farms. But amid all those numbers and names, one vital piece of information was (and is) missing: We don’t actually know how well the vertical farming market as…
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The COP24 United Nations Climate Change Conference wrapped up last week, and while the outcome of the conference was generally positive, the world is still facing an increasingly dire future for our planet. One change people can make to help save the world is altering what they eat. Transitioning away from meat to a more…
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Online grocery shopping is projected to hit $100 billion by 2022. But study after study has shown consumers are reluctant to buy fresh ingredients online, preferring instead to inspect items like produce in-store to ensure quality. But those anti-online shopping sentiments may be fading, according to a new study from The Retail Feedback Group (RFG)…
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This is the post version of our weekly newsletter. If you’d like to get the weekly Spoon in your inbox, you can subscribe here. One of the things I learned in my past life as a digital TV market analyst was this: it takes a while to bring an ecosystem together. Back in the early and mid-2000s when I was…
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When I think of interesting food products, I often think of Bill Mitchell, a legendary food scientist who stumbled upon what would eventually become Pop Rocks. Hunkered inside a General Foods research lab in the 1950s, Mitchell discovered that mixing sugar with carbon dioxide in his mouth caused them to fizz and pop. The prolific food…
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Whether it’s about personalizing the shopping experience, changing the way stores are set up or shoppable recipes, most folks in the food industry have an opinion about what will drive future growth for grocery retailers. This week, another voice joined the conversation and offered a new take on where retailers should be looking in terms of future…
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Toast just announced three new integrations to its platform, a move that will make data analytics and mobile payment functionality available to even more restaurants using the platform. Toast is more of a restaurant-management platform at this point than just a POS offering. In theory, at least, a restaurant could run entirely off the service,…
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Happy International Coffee Day! Technically, it’s tomorrow, but we’re so hopped up on caffeine right now that we can’t wait. To give a little perspective on our worldwide daily addiction, the folks at the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) teamed up with payment processor, Square to give us a sense of just how we like our…
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