Category: Weekly Spoon
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! On paper, shoppable recipes are everything I want in a technology. They are, in some respects, the quintessential combination of discovery + action + convenience. Find a recipe you like then…
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Inexplicably, I’ve always wished I could have experienced the Automat in its heyday. Created at the tail-end of the Nineteenth Century, Automats consisted of a wall of cubbies containing simple food and beverage items users could unlock for a nickel. It was essentially fast food before fast food existed. Fast forward to 2020, and it…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to get all the best food tech news delivered to your inbox! In the 1982 movie Tron, the inner workings of a computer included tiny people riding motorcycles and throwing deadly frisbees. Somewhat counterintuitively, if a Tron movie were made today about the modern inner…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to receive the best food tech news delivered direct to your inbox! In a normal world, with Labor Day behind us, now would be the time that everyone gets back to work, nose to the grindstone, powering through all kinds of business before the holiday…
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We’re running out of synonyms. Since the pandemic hit in earnest, we’ve written about surges, spikes, booms, waves, deluges and just about every other artful synonym we can think of for “big increase” in a particular trend. The latest [insert unused vivid descriptor here] is companies creating their own direct-to-consumer sales channels. Beyond Meat became…
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“Perhaps we should stop using the term ghost kitchen. Ghosts are rarely seen, but ghost kitchens? Well, they are popping up everywhere.” Spoon Editor Chris Albrecht was half-kidding when he wrote that line earlier this week, but he might have been onto something. Ghost kitchens, a concept that only really started turning heads one year…
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This is the web version of our weekly Spoon newsletter. Subscribe to it today to get all the best food tech stories delivered directly to your inbox! How many ovens in your kitchen is too many ovens? I ask because Anova announced yesterday that it’s steam+convection combi oven is now on sale for $599 (shipping…
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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. This week’s virtual Spoon event was a goldmine of information for restaurants and restaurant tech companies, or really anyone who wonders what the word “digitization” actually looks like in action in a restaurant.…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! In sci-fi movies, pods are typically something to be feared (see: Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers). But when it comes to food delivery, pods are something we should welcome with open…
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Summer is finally here in the Pacific Northwest. I’m writing this on what is supposed to be the hottest day of the year in these parts and it is awesome. Since I’m in such a happy mood (as much as one can be during these end times), I want this week’s newsletter to reflect that.…
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Ghost kitchens. You’ve heard about them nonstop since the pandemic overturned the foodservice industry and forced almost every restaurant in the country to go off-premises. And with the fate of the restaurant dining room still very much uncertain (see below), we’ll see more restaurants turn to the ghost kitchen model in the future. That’s a…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe and get the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! Excuse me while I put on my crotchety old man pants, stand on my lawn and proclaim, “Back when I was in my early twenties and looking for an apartment, the only amenity…
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