In this week’s episode of The Food Tech Show, we talk about those new contactless systems and compare them to a technology from long ago: the automat. Yep, that old-school idea born in New York City a century ago is back (or maybe it never left?), showing up everywhere from restaurants to condos. Jenn Marston…
It may be the waning days of summer, but there’s still time to get outside for a walk and listen to podcasts and the Spoon team is here to help with our latest episode of The Food Tech Show. This week, the team discusses the launch of the strategy behind Walmart+, Walmart’s long-rumored membership program…
The Anova Precision Oven was first announced at The Spoon’s own Smart Kitchen Summit in 2016 and now it’s finally shipping. Chris and Mike strategize about how to convince their significant others to fit yet another countertop appliance in the kitchen. Other stories discuss on this week’s show: Heineken is ditching plastic rings Temperpack raises…
The Spoon team has a heavily caffeinated conversation for this week’s podcast. Here are the stories we discuss: With traffic down due to the pandemic, Cafe X shuts down its airport robot baristas Atomo coffee raises $9 million for ‘molecular’ coffee Another week, another ghost kitchen funding Are mobile menus the next big application for…
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The Spoon editors got together to talk about some of the most interesting food tech news of the past week (as well as complain about high-priced cookies). Some of the stories we talk about on the pod include: Ghost kitchens remain hot with Zuul funding Mosa Meat’s reaches milestone in medium cost reduction for cultured…
If you’re driving somewhere for the 4th of July weekend (don’t forget the mask and hand san), why don’t you download the latest episode of the Food Tech Show podcast? This week the editor team got together to discuss some of our favorite companies from this year’s Food Tech 25, the spike in COVID cases…
I sat down this week with Riana Lynn, the CEO of Journey Foods, to talk about her journey as a black female food tech entrepreneur. From her time in the Obama White House, to working for former McDonalds CEO Don Thompson at venture firm Cleveland Avenue, to her latest startup that uses AI to help…
Most of us are eager to start dining in again at restaurants, but are we ready? We discuss the huge spectrum of responses we got when we asked our readers if they’re ready to start dining in restaurants again on this week’s Food Tech Show, as well as some of the innovative ways restaurants are…
It was a sad week at The Spoon as we said goodbye to Catherine Lamb. Catherine is heading off to Chicago to get her MBA at Kellogg University. After that she’ll take over the world, or at least the world of food tech. I met Catherine for the first time when she volunteered at the…
We write and talk a lot about product launches here at The Spoon, but we look inward on this week’s Food Tech Show as we discuss the backstory behind Spoon Plus, our membership community we launched last week. If you’re a blog or online content nerd, this one is for you as we talk about…
The Spoon editor team got together this week to talk about some of the top food tech stories, including Gavin Newsom’s move to start working with restaurants to deliver food to seniors and asking why Amazon’s decided to give away the Food Network Kitchen service for free in coming months. Other stories discuss include Cheetah’s…
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It’s a very specific cultural moment when a Twitter thread about deriving yeast at home from the skin of fruits goes viral, but here we are. The Spoon editorial team got together this week to discuss said Twitter thread from a Ginkgo yeast geneticist Sudeep Agarwala. We also chatted about a few other stories, including:…