Category: News
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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 a survey of over 1,000 quick-service and fast-casual diners, showed that the number of customers who used restaurant-owned ordering channels over the past three months…
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Remember Flyfish Club, the Gary Vaynerchuck-affiliated dining club that made news when it announced it was planning to build the world’s first NFT restaurant? While you may not, the restaurant industry sure does. After the group raised an impressive $14 million in just weeks by selling tiered memberships via NFT, it seemed everyone started wondering,…
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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 Google employee named Brett Goldstein stumbled upon the remote cashier in a New York City restaurant called Sansan Chicken and proceeded to breathlessly tweet about…
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Today, the Canadian edition of the Deep Space Food Challenge announced the grand prize winner for its years-long competition to discover new solutions to feed astronauts on long-term space missions. The winner is a food production system co-developed by Canadian companies Ecoation and Maia Farms. The system, called CANGrow, grows different types of fresh foods,…
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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 companies have been developing platforms to enable consumers to skip the checkout counter. These platforms aim to transform the shopping experience into something akin to…
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Robomart, a company building a platform for self-driving retail storefronts, has announced a new organization called the Autonomous Retail Collective, a group aimed at accelerating the development of self-driving shops. The group is a mix of Robomart’s partners, including Whale Dynamic, specializing in autonomous driving systems; Avery Dennison, a supplier of RFID technology; Zeeba, which…
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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 and current builder of the next big idea in home knives at Seattle Ultrasonics. The live stream can be watched below. Here are the stories…
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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 more signals that AI is having a once-in-a-generation transformative impact on the food business. To note: Yum, the owner of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,…
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Appliance giant Whirlpool has let its entire Yummly team go. According to industry sources, the company recently laid off all the employees for the recipe and cooking app and website. These sources tell the Spoon that it’s unclear what the company plans to do with the property it acquired in 2017. The news of the…
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According to a story published in The Information, Amazon is planning to pull its Just Walk Out cashierless technology from its large-format grocery store, Amazon Fresh. As part of the move, the company will begin to deploy its Dash smart shopping carts. Like Just Walk Out, the Dash carts have embedded computer vision, allowing customers…
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For small operators (and big ones as well) in the pizza business, Andrew Simmons’s posts on Linkedin have become must-read material. That’s because Simmons, who I wrote about last year as he experimented with utilizing pizza automation technology in his San Diego area restaurant, has open-sourced his learnings as he continues experimenting with various forms…
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Since ChatGPT debuted in the fall of 2022, much of the interest in generative AI has centered around large language models. Large language models, or LLMs, are the giant compute-intensive computer models that are powering the chatbots and image generators that seemingly everyone is using and talking about nowadays. While there’s no doubt that LLMs…
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