When It Comes to Cooking Videos, Gen Zers Love TikTok, Millennials Embrace YouTube
As a former industry analyst, I’m a sucker for survey research exploring how we cook, eat, and shop for food. Luckily for me, word of a new research study landed […]
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How Mini Melts Built a $150M Beaded Ice Cream Business With a Nationwide Network of Automated Kiosks
If you’re like me, you’ve probably bought a beaded ice cream at your local ballpark or fairgrounds during the dog days of summer. You know the kind, that ice cream […]
I Attended a Workshop on the Impact of AI on The Food World. Here’s What We Discussed
Last month, I headed down to San Luis Obispo to participate in a National Science Foundation-funded project analyzing the impact of automation and AI on the food system. I’d been […]
Mill Celebrates Standards Group Approval of Upcycled Kitchen Scraps As New Animal Feed Ingredient
Last week, Mill, a company that makes a kitchen scrap upcycling appliance, announced that a standards group had voted to approve a new ingredient feed definition, effectively giving a thumbs […]
Strella Believes Its Machine Learning Tech Will Help Deliver The Perfectly Ripened Banana
Did you know that there’s a job in the banana industry called a ripener? It makes sense, right? After all, anyone who eats bananas knows the time it takes to […]
With Production Milestone, New Culture Eyes Price Parity for Its Animal-Free Mozzarella
New Culture, a company that uses precision fermentation to make animal-free casein, says it has reached a new manufacturing milestone that enables it to produce enough casein for 25 thousand […]
Robomart Debuts Fully Autonomous Mobile Grocery Store Concept As It Announces $2M Seed Round
Robomart, the company that introduced the store-hailing concept at CES in 2019 and started rolling out its first pilot store last year, announced a new model for its mobile store […]
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Barsys Makes Case For Adding Style to Bartender Robot Category With the Barsys 360
Home cocktail-making appliances have gone through lots of phases since we started writing about them in 2016. We’ve seen everything from pod-based systems from Bartesian and Drinkworks to DIY approaches […]
Sidewalk Delivery Startup Serve Robotics To Go Public via Reverse Merger
Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot startup that began life as a research project within Postmates called X, is going public via reverse merger, The Spoon has learned. The news, […]
Ansā’s RF-Powered Countertop Coffee Roaster Attracts $9M in Fresh Funding
Ansā, a Tel Aviv-based builder of micro coffee roasters, has raised $9 million in funding to help the company roll out its technology into the US market, according to a […]
Innit Debuts FoodLM to Power More Contextually Relevant Answers from Generative AI Platforms
Today Innit, a startup best known for its shoppable recipe and smart kitchen software solutions, announced the release of FoodLM, a software intelligence layer that helps power more contextually relevant […]
Why Big Idea Ventures’ Andrew Ive is Excited About the Japan Food Tech Ecosystem
Just over a week ago, we caught up with Big Idea Ventures’ managing partner Andrew Ive in Tokyo to talk food tech investing. Ive was in Japan for SKS Japan, […]