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Pizza chain Domino’s announced its fourth-quarter 2020 earnings this week and simultaneously reiterated its stance on using third-party delivery services like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub. Short answer: It won’t. […]
If you want to be a chef, the first thing Chris Young thinks you should do before parting ways with a king’s ransom in the form of time and money […]
Beyond Meat announced global distribution deals yesterday with McDonald’s and Yum Brands (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell) that will help push plant-based meat further into the mainstream. Beyond and McDonald’s […]
DoorDash exceeded analyst estimates with its 2020 fourth-quarter revenues. However, the third-party delivery service also more than doubled its losses during that time period, and DoorDash stock took a dip […]
If you’ve been to the alternative milk section of your grocery store recently, then you aware that there is an almost overwhelming number of options. The fact that alternative milk […]
The robot bartenders we’ve covered so far at The Spoon are either just autonomous, articulating arms (Glacierfire), or high-volume vending machines (Rotender). Cecilia.ai, the latest entrant in the autonomous cocktail-making […]
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Vertical farming company Kalera announced this week it has acquired Vindara, a company developing seeds specifically for the indoor vertical farming environment and other controlled environment agriculture methods. With this […]
Vancouver, Canada-based Honeycomb.ai opened up its artificial intelligence (AI)-based web app this week to help diners with food allergies and specific diets navigate restaurant menus. The first version of the […]
Next Gen, a Singapore-headquartered food tech company, announced today it has raised $10 million in seed funding. The round was led by Temasek, K3 Ventures, the New Ventures arm of […]
Traeger Grills announced this week the launch of its first Apple Watch app, which allows users to both monitor and control the cooking on its WiFire compatible connected grills. In […]
Ag tech VC firm, AgFunder, released its annual report on agrifood tech funding today. Companies in this sector raised $26 billion in 2020, a 15.5 percent increase over 2019. If […]
