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Cana Shuts Down Cana, the company which was building an appliance that they claimed could create and customize virtually any beverage, shut down last week, The Spoon has learned. According to numerous Linkedin posts from previous employees, the company could not secure funding and laid off all of its employees last week. Cana, which had…
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This is the Spoon Weekly, a collection of some of the most interesting stories from the past week. Make sure to subscribe to get the top food tech news delivered straight to your inbox. ‘It’s Like a Driver’s License for Cows’: Why One Wyoming Company is Creating NFTs for Cattle Back when Rob Jennings helped found the Wyoming…
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It may be almost holiday time, but the food tech news keeps on coming. Plant-based meat slowdown, Starbucks animal-free milk trials, Bitcoin restaurants. Read all about it. If you haven’t already subscribed to our newsletter, do so here to get the Spoon Weekly delivered to your inbox. Will Jack Dorsey’s Block Usher In The Bitcoin…
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Snap The Latest to Create a ‘Shazam for Food’ Haven’t we seen this episode before? While many of us had a good laugh back when Silicon Valley’s Jian-Yang launched a Not Hot Dog app, the truth is big tech has been rolling out Shazam for food features for quite some time. The latest company to create an augmented reality/AI-powered…
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This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. Since the start of 2021, we’ve seen numerous developments that showcase how vast and varied the efforts to fight food waste have become. Sachets that slow food spoilage. Hyperspectral imaging to analyze avocados.…
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This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. Ever since Eat Just nabbed the world’s first regulatory approval to sell cultured meat in Singapore (and followed that milestone up by actually selling it), myself and many others have wondered which market…
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This is the web version of our Weekly Restaurant Tech newsletter. Subscribe today to get weekly food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. When Taster, a virtual restaurant company headquartered in London, announced its $37 million fundraise last week, co-founder and CEO Anton Soulier made clear that his company is trying to “redefine what…
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This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. We’ve said it once (actually, a lot more than once), we’ll say it again: university towns are the ideal testing ground for new meal delivery-related endeavors. Little wonder, then, that when launching its…
If you’re doing it right, your Thanksgiving leftovers should be gone by now (so many turkey+stuffing+gravy sandwiches!). Evidently, preparing for Thanksgiving in the middle of a year-long pandemic was a “logistical nightmare” for BIG TURKEY (Butterball, Perdue, Foster Farms, etc.), thanks to labor shortages and reduced family gatherings. This got me wondering how long it…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe today to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! You know how last week felt like it dragged on forever? Well, food tech companies sure made up for that lost time, because once Monday hit, our desk was pelted with…
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Some of the talk at last week’s Smart Kitchen Summit revolved around two newish concepts that are especially compelling when it comes to thinking about restaurants: in-house delivery and disrupting third-party delivery. Together, the two could substantially shift the the off-premises meal journey of the future. Technically, in-house delivery — also called “native delivery” or…