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By some accounts, the QSR is headed towards a future where more of its menu is derived from plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy. Canada-based chain Copper Branch is one such chain leading that shift. The company’s franchise locations span Canada and are now making their way into the U.S. and other parts of the…
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DoorDash this week launched a new feature, DoubleDash, that lets users bundle items from different businesses like convenience stores together into a single transaction. DoorDash customers can add c-store items to their original restaurant order and checkout with a single transaction and no extra delivery fees, according to a company blog post. DoubleDash is currently…
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The restaurant industry faces a lot of question marks right now, but one certainty is that future dining room and off-premises experiences will generate and include a lot more data. Founder and Chief Product Office Allison Page created Sevenrooms on the idea that restaurants need to be able to better understand their customers through this…
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Aldi Süd and RIMI Baltic are among the first large food companies to implement Plant Jammer’s new food-waste-fighting widget on their websites, according to a press release from Plant Jammer sent to The Spoon. Consumers can use the widget to track and manage food waste in their own homes. Plant Jammer is best known at…
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A new start-up called Helaina strives to support parents and newborns through its alternative breast milk developed through precision fermentation. The company is currently in its development phase, and to date, has raised $4 million in funding. As Laura Katz, the founder of Helaina, explained to me this week, “Our goal is to replicate the…
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Those with an eye on restaurant tech may remember that this time a year ago, Euromonitor predicted that the ghost kitchen market would be worth $1 trillion by 2030. That’s an enormous number to pin on what was then still quite a nascent sector. But Michael Schaefer, the Euromonitor analyst who made that prediction, wasn’t…
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Kitchen United (KU) will expand its ghost kitchen network to include Kroger locations thanks to a just-announced partnership between KU and the grocery retailer. KU kitchens will be located at various Kroger locations, the first of these being at a Ralphs in Los Angeles slated to open this fall. Participating Kroger stores will house a…
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Online ordering platform Lunchbox announced today it has acquired Spread, an online marketplace that aims to offer both restaurants and customers an alternative to Grubhub, DoorDash, and other major third-party delivery services. Lunchbox’s online ordering software will power the transactions, while Spread will handle the deliveries. Pickup options will also be available for customers. NYC-based delivery…
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One reason I dislike using recipes is how frustrating it can be to access them on certain websites. As soon as I click on a recipe online, I am instantly bombarded by ad pop-ups, auto-playing videos, and way too much backstory before I can access the actual recipe. Reciple wants to change this, and today…
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Finnish startup Rens Original successfully funded its first sneakers made from coffee waste and recycled plastic water bottles via a Kickstarter campaign. Today, the company announced it will be launching a second Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming climate-neutral sneaker. The shoe is called NOMAD, and the company used feedback from its customers to design it.…
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“We continue to see the pandemic act as a catalyzing agent to accelerate trends that were in motion before it began. We believe that food and agriculture has undergone significant structural changes that will alter the course of the industry.” So says a new report from S2G Ventures, a VC firm based in Chicago, Illinois.…
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