Category: Weekly Spoon
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A worrying point that comes up a lot in conversation these days is that sustainability has taken something of a backseat while food businesses scramble to fight the pandemic. So it was encouraging to read this week that burger chain behemoth McDonald’s is continuing its sustainability initiatives and just completed construction on its first “net…
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This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Sign up for it to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox. We just released The Spoon’s 2020 Food Tech 25 list yesterday, and we hope you have as much fun we reading it as we had creating it. Each year,…
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The surprise hit story on The Spoon this week has been our recent post on Mexico City-based remotekitchen, a startup that’s building a mobile-first restaurant-tech platform that, theoretically at least, only needs a smart phone to operate. I highlight this story not because I think every restaurant needs to pare down their tech stack to…
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This is the web version of our weekly email. Subscribe to get all the best food tech news delivered directly to your inbox! This global pandemic may have slowed down our day-to-day activities, but VCs are still cranking out deals in the food tech world. We at The Spoon have covered 19 funding announcements between…
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And now, a tale of two takeouts. For the first time in months, I left the house to actually set foot in a restaurant over the weekend. Both trips were just to pickup food, not eat in, but each experience was vastly different. The pizza joint I went to had casual safety precautions at best.…
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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. One of the big questions surrounding the rollout of cashierless checkout as it was emerging last year was how well it could scale. Outfitting a small convenience store with cameras and sensors a…
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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. A couple of years ago I came across a restaurant in Dallas, Texas that featured a menu written entirely in emojis. It was unexpected and creative, yet clear enough that a server didn’t…
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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. Prior to the pandemic, I never grocery shopped at Walmart. It was too far away and I wanted to support my local supermarket. Throughout this pandemic, however, I’ve been at Walmart…
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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. Things I never thought I’d live to see: a global pandemic shutting down the economy, the McDonald’s snuggie, and fast food restaurants requiring reservations to dine in. But with the restaurant biz on…
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Even an introverted work-from-home veteran like me is starting to get kind of daffy during this here quarantine. But I will say that being stuck at home has given me a lot of time to think (and write) about the state of the restaurant industry, and I catch myself imagining what eating out will be…
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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. Though I wasn’t even going into the store during my grocery pickup from Walmart this week, I still wrapped myself in a facemask and gloves. Mainly because I was buying alcohol,…
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We knew that The Spoon’s first ever Virtual Strategy Summit would be around COVID-19. After all, the virus is the reason we had to make the summit virtual in the first place. And not to toot our own horn, but we didn’t realize how great it would be. More than 1,300 people joined us yesterday…
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