Category: Restaurant Tech
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Restaurants, welcome to the metaverse. It’s not just a vision that’s 5 or 10 years away. It’s here now. For Halloween, Chipotle created a virtual restaurant inside the online game platform Roblox to give away $1 million in free burritos. Fans and gamers could enter the restaurant, experience a Halloween-themed Chipotle, and get a promo…
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Over the past 12 months, money has poured into cultivated meat startups as venture investors, celebrities, and governments look to get in on what many believe is the next big thing in alternative protein. However, as the excitement grows, some are taking a harder look at how to scale the production of lab-grown meat to…
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Although everyone seems divided in these tumultuous times, there are still a few things in this world we all can agree on: Jeopardy won’t be as good without Alex Trebek, Facebook is evil, and cold food sucks. While we can’t do too much about the first two, the final one might be a solvable problem,…
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There may be no one with more culinary street cred in America today than David Chang. Not only has the New York-based chef won multiple James Beard awards and seen his restaurant Momofuku called the country’s most important restaurant, but Chang himself is widely recognized as an astute observer of the food world who always…
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Cala, a maker of autonomous pasta-robot restaurants, announced it has raised a €5.5M Seed funding round led by BACKED VC, according to a release sent to The Spoon. The new funding follows a €1M angel round raised in 2019 by the Paris-based startup. Cala’s robot is essentially a fully operational restaurant in a box. It…
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Yesterday, ghost kitchen operator Kitchen United announced they had acquired Zuul, a ghost kitchen technology and consulting services company, for an undisclosed sum. According to the announcement, Kitchen United will bring over the executive team and transition Zuul’s New York City facility to a Kitchen United MIX kitchen center. The company also announced that it…
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Here’s some ghost kitchen new math for you: 800 degrees + 1 Reef = 500 ghost kitchens. That’s at least according to Restaurant Business News, which is reporting the two companies have teamed up with plans to open 500 ghost kitchens. That’s a massive ghost kitchen land grab, of course, the kind that sounds good…
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If you thought the romance between the culinary world and NFTs was a quick spring fling, I have some news for you: This relationship looks set for the long haul. The latest evidence of an embrace of non-fungible tokens by restaurants comes in the form of new promotion launches over the past few weeks by…
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Darryl Dueltgen and Jason Udrija had a choice: Expand their successful New Jersey pizza restaurant brand called Pizza Love, or start a tech-powered pizza concept that could change the pizza industry. They decided to start a revolution. “We’ve put a lot of time into building a labor-reduced, tech-driven concept that we believe will revolutionize the…
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If there’s one thing you could say about Elon Musk, it’s that he never stops surprising us, whether that means smoking weed on podcasts or saying crazy things on Twitter. But where he is especially surprising – and honestly way more interesting – is with new product reveals. And his most interesting reveal this year…
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Below is a list of the sessions featured at the Restaurant Tech Summit. Subscribers to Spoon Plus can access all of these sessions. If you’d like to learn more about Spoon Plus, you can do so here. The Analyst Outlook for Restaurant Tech Brita Rosenheim (Culterra), Michael Wolf, Michael Schaefer (Euromonitor) Building a Post-Pandemic Restaurant…
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Making a fourth meal run every day? If so, what’s wrong with you? you can now get a heavily discounted daily taco if you happen to live in an area where Taco Bell is trialing a new Taco Lover’s Pass. The pass, according to QSR Magazine, is available in select Arizona markets through November 24th.…
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