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The usual Spoon gang got together this week to talk food tech with special guest Riana Lynn, longtime food tech entrepreneur and CEO of Journey Foods. This stories we discuss on this week’s show include: Robot servers are now bringing drinks and overpriced food to Houston Rockets fans at Toyota Center Amazon is bringing Palm…
There are lots of factors that play into the success of a food product: Price, taste, cultural norms and acceptance. Sometimes it helps when a chef embraces a type of food and popularizes it through media or a new restaurant concept. Other times, a new type of food takes decades to become an overnight success.…
This week’s podcast is another live Clubhouse edition of the Food Tech News wrap-up. In this week’s show, we discuss: Yes, Mealworms Are Gross. Here’s Why They Matter Territory Foods Raises $22M for its Chef-Created Prepared Meal Subscription Service Atlast Food Co. Secures $40M Series A Round to Expand Whole Cut Plant-Based Meat Analogues Self-Driving…
For most, founding one of the original better-for-you brands in Honest Tea and eventually selling it to Coca-Cola would be enough of a lifetime achievement. For Seth Goldman, he was just getting started. Nowadays Goldman is not only Chairman of the biggest publicly traded plant-based meat brands in Beyond Meat, he’s also cofounded a plant-based…
The Spoon team got together on Clubhouse on Friday to talk about the biggest stories of the week. Our special guest was Veronica Fil, the CEO of Grounded Foods. The stories we discussed include: Ghost Kitchens Newest Location? Master Planned Communities Upcycled Food Startups Doing More Partnerships with Food Brands Takeoff Technologies Expands is Automated…
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The Spoon team recently got together on Clubhouse to talk about some of the most interesting food tech and future food stories of the week. This time around, we were also joined by food tech investor Brian Frank. If you’d like to join us for the live recording, make sure to follow The Spoon’s Food…
This week the Spoon editor team (joined by special guest Tom Mastrobuoni of Big Idea Ventures) jumped on Clubhouse to talk about some of the biggest stories of the week. Here are the stories discussed on this week’s show: Online Grocery Weee! Raises $315M Series D Round Cloud Software for Cloud Kitchens: Grubtech Raises $3.4M…
Back when we wrote about Viome for our DNA-based personalized nutrition report last year, the company primary product was a personalized nutrition plan based on what they had learned from the DNA and RNA of a customer’s microbiome. Viome would then use this information provide nutritional guidance and meal plans for the customer. While this…
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Listeners of the Food Tech Show podcast know that in addition to our regular interviews with smart leaders in the food tech space, we also like to get together once a week on the podcast to talk about the top stories in food tech. And now, this weekly wrapup includes a live studio audience (kind…
While some future food leaders like Pat Brown don’t believe the economics of cultured meat make sense, longtime investor and entrepreneur Jim Mellon thinks exactly the opposite. In fact, Mellon thinks that in the future, cultured meat will be more affordable than both factory farmed and the plant-based alternatives. “The price of plant-based foods has…
If you want to be a chef, the first thing Chris Young thinks you should do before parting ways with a king’s ransom in the form of time and money at culinary school is to just jump directly into the fire. “If you think you might want to be a professional chef, the best thing…
If you were to ask Clara Foods CEO Arturo Elizondo what came first, the chicken or the egg, the answer you’d get is probably not the weighty philosophical waxing you might expect from a former intern for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer. Instead, chances are you’d probably hear about how it’s time to do away…