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This Culinary Tech Inventor Thought He Could Build Some Parts For His Latest Gadget in the US. Then He Called Around.
July 14, 2025 Michael Wolf

July 9, 2025

Thermomix Has Long Been a Leader in Cooking Automation, But Now They’re Going Full Robot

July 3, 2025

Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

February 1, 2025

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

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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Mill, Maker of a High-Tech Home Food Waste Bin, Adjusts Plans and Enables Purchase Option

February 12, 2024 Michael Wolf

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It’s been just over a year since the Mill, the company behind a high-tech home food waste bin, was announced to the public. The company, which made an initial splash […]

Fresco Deal With Panasonic Brings Device Control & AI-Powered Planning to HomeCHEF Multi-Oven Lineup

February 9, 2024 Michael Wolf

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At CES 2024, Panasonic announced that it had struck a deal with smart kitchen OS startup Fresco to integrate the Fresch kitchen OS platform with the Japanese brand’s multi-oven countertop […]

Check Out NXP’s Presence-Sensing Cooktop Demo Powered by On-Chip AI

February 7, 2024 Michael Wolf

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We’re still sifting through some of the cool product demos from CES last month, and one that caught my eye was the demo by NXP of a presence-sensing cooktop powered […]

Algae Cooking Club Debuts High-Smoke Point Cooking Oil Made from Fermented Microalgae

February 5, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today, a startup called the Algae Cooking Club introduced its first product, a chef-grade algae-based cooking oil. According to the company, the new oil has a smoke point of 535 […]

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Food as Medicine Platform Foodsmart Expands Reach to 7.4 Million Patients as it Reels in $10M in Fresh Funding

January 31, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today, food as medicine and telehealth startup Foodsmart announced an expansion of its “Foodscripts” program and a new round of funding. The company says it will reach up to 7.4 […]

Big Idea Ventures’ GFRP Fund Acquires Edible Packaging Startup DisSolves

January 30, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Today, Generation Food Rural Partners I, LP (GFRP), a member fund that is part of the food tech investor Big Idea Ventures (BIV) family, has announced its acquisition of DisSolves, […]

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Chris Young: Generative AI Will Provide Big Payoffs in Helping Us Cook Better, But Overhyping It Will Burn Some Folks

January 29, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Chris Young has never been shy about providing his thoughts about the future of cooking. Whether it was on stage at the Smart Kitchen Summit, on his YouTube channel, or […]

Chef Robotics Raises $14.75M To Automate Food Assembly in Commercial Kitchens

January 26, 2024 Michael Wolf

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We’ve been tracking Chef Robotics before it was even called that when the company’s CEO and founder, Rajat Bhageria, spoke at The Spoon’s food robotics conference ArticulATE in 2019. At […]

Robomart Partners With PIX Moving to Build Mobile Retail Stores On Top of PIX’s Skateboard Chassis Platform

January 26, 2024 Michael Wolf

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Robomart, a company that helped pioneer the concept of “store hailing” when it first brought its concept of mobile convenience stores to CES five years ago, announced it had signed […]

Jersey Mike’s Jumps on the AI-Voice Order Bandwagon as it Deploys Soundhound to 50 Locations

January 25, 2024 Michael Wolf

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The AI-voice bot customer service wave is coming at us fast, and the latest chain to roll out the technology is the sub-sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s. Soundhound announced this week […]

Half a Million Deliveries & Counting: A Five-Year Snapshot of Sidewalk Robot Deliveries at George Mason

January 23, 2024 Michael Wolf

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This week, sidewalk robot delivery startup Starship Technologies celebrated the fifth anniversary of its first campus deployment in the US and, as part of its announcement, gave us a peek […]

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