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Welcome to the Spoon food tech weekly wrap-up, featuring some of our top stories of the past week! Click here to subscribe and get The Spoon in your inbox. Cana Unveils Pricing for Molecular Beverage Printer, Gives a Peek Inside Last week Cana, a company building a countertop drink printer that makes nearly any type of…
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Cana Unveils a ‘Netflix for Drinks’ That Can Make Nearly Any Type of Beverage In late 2018, food tech entrepreneur and investor Dave Friedberg got together with a few scientists for dinner and drinks and talked about a research study that suggested most any beverage is made up almost entirely of water, with only about one percent or…
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2022 looks to be a big year for a number of innovating food tech approaches, including molecular farming. The practice, which involves genetically editing a crop so that its cells produce a protein, sidesteps some of the costly and tricky problems of growing proteins in traditional bioreactors since plants have built-in immune systems. As startups…
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This is the web version of the Spoon weekly newsletter where we wrap up of some of the most interesting stories in Food Tech. If you’d like to subscribe to The Spoon Newsletter, you can do so here. The NFT-Powered Dinner Club Has Arrived After eating at home for much of the past 18 months, most…
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This is the web version of the Spoon weekly newsletter where we wrap up of some of the most interesting stories in Food Tech. If you’d like to subscribe to The Spoon Newsletter, you can do so here. David Chang Dives Into Food Tech There may be no one with more culinary street cred in…
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We are preparing for back-to-school in our home. And while there are still questions that remain around what back-to-school will actually mean for my middle-schooler, we are all excited for some return to normalcy (hopefully). But in addition to educating children, schools are also a target market for emerging food tech sectors, as evidenced by…
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One thing is becoming clear as all these speedy grocery delivery startups pop up, proliferate and pile on the funding: All this activity isn’t just about getting you groceries. Increasingly, it’s about getting you lunch and dinner. Already we’ve seen 1520 expand into creating their own line of meals available for delivery. Gopuff is in…
This is the web version of our newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. As online ordering becomes more the norm, the next step in on the path to digitization is all about data. More specifically, it is about making sense of the mountains of customer data…
In looking at Brick Meets Click/Mercatus online grocery sales data since March of this year, you might start to worry. After matching a record high of $9.3 billion in total U.S. grocery e-commerce in March, the numbers have steadily come down. April’s tally was $8.4 billion. May fell to $7.0 billion. And just this week,…
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This is the web version of our Weekly Spoon newsletter. Subscribe today to get the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! Earlier this week, I did a post on speedy grocery delivery service Food Rocket’s big plans to add ghost kitchens and eventually open up its platform to other retailers. But as…
One year ago, Euromonitor International predicted the ghost kitchen market could be worth $1 trillion by 2030. The prediction, made by Euromonitor’s Global Lead for Food & Beverage Michael Schaefer, reverberated around a restaurant industry that was still deep in the midst of dining room shutdowns and restrictions related to a global pandemic. Little wonder…