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After Leaving Starbucks, Mesh Gelman Swore Off The Coffee Biz. Now He Wants To Reinvent Cold Brew Coffee
June 5, 2025 Michael Wolf

June 2, 2025

Brian Canlis on Leaving an Iconic Restaurant Behind to Start Over in Nashville With Will Guidara

May 30, 2025

Food Waste Gadgets Can’t Get VC Love, But Kickstarter Backers Are All In

May 27, 2025

Report: Restaurant Tech Funding Drops to $1.3B in 2024, But AI & Automation Provide Glimmer of Hope

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

Why a Small Startup in the Middle of Valencia May Be Leading the Wireless Energy & Invisible Cooktop Trend

March 12, 2024 Michael Wolf

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About a decade ago, IKEA famously released a concept video laying out its vision for the kitchen of the future. The central concept for their envisioned future kitchen was a […]

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Bellwether Debuts Small-Format, Countertop Electric Coffee Roaster for $15 Thousand

March 7, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today Bellwether Coffee announced its latest electric, ventless coffee roasting machine, The Bellwether Shop Roaster. The new roaster, which is the company’s third-generation electric roasting machine, will retail starting at […]

Florida Bill Banning Cultivated Meat On Its Way to DeSantis’ Desk

March 7, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Selling cultivated meat in Florida is about to become a second-degree misdemeanor. That’s because this week, the Florida legislature voted to pass a bill restricting the commercial sale of meat […]

After Hitting Ten Thousand Users, Mill Unveils Second-Generation Hi-Tech Food Waste Bin

March 5, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Last week, Mill unveiled its second-generation appliance, one year after introducing its high-tech food waste bin (don’t call it a composter!). The news comes as the company reaches ten thousand […]

Ralph Newhouse Tells The Story of Chefman and Chef iQ (and Drops Some News About Upcoming Products)

March 1, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Around 2009, Ralph Newhouse’s company hunted down excess inventory of small electrics and would re-sell them into the secondary market. However, it wasn’t long before Newhouse realized he wanted to […]

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Fresco Locks Up Deal To Bring Kitchen OS to Middleby Consumer Kitchen Brands

February 29, 2024 Michael Wolf

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This week, smart kitchen startup Fresco announced it had struck a deal with Middleby to integrate the Fresco Kitchen OS platform across the cooking equipment giant’s residential portfolio, starting with […]

GE Appliances Debuts EcoBalance and Its Vision of the Kitchen as Integral Part of the Home’s Energy Management Network

February 28, 2024 Michael Wolf

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This week at KBIS, Haier subsidiary GE Appliances focused much of its, um, energy on getting the message out about its new EcoBalance Home System, a new whole-home home systems […]

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Can Whirlpool’s Deal to Use BORA’s Downdraft Ventilation Add Momentum to Induction in the US?

February 26, 2024 Michael Wolf

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One of the more intriguing long-term technology trends in the kitchen industry has been the up-and-down market evolution of induction cooking. Though introduced almost a century ago at the 1933 […]

The Origin Story Behind OMM, the Countertop Egg-Making Robot from Bridge Appliances

February 20, 2024 Michael Wolf

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A few years ago, Lance Lentini was a year out of college when he started working at DEKA Research & Development, a technology development firm. This wasn’t just any engineering […]

Podcast: Overcoming Obstacles To Build Kitchen Tech Hardware With Ovie’s Ty Thompson

February 14, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first hardware product. The product, a consumer food waste management system, was over […]

Chef Robotics Hits 10M Meal Milestone in Under Two Years. The Secret? AI-Powered Robots Trained With Lots of Field Data

February 13, 2024 Michael Wolf

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This week, food automation startup Chef Robotics told The Spoon it had reached the ten million-meal milestone, less than two years after the company’s first robot was deployed in June […]

It’s All But Official: The June Oven is Cooked

February 12, 2024 Michael Wolf

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If you’ve been paying attention to the June Oven website lately (and really, who hasn’t?), you may have noticed that it’s been a bit difficult to order a new smart […]

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