Ghost Kitchen, Meet the Automat
Inexplicably, I’ve always wished I could have experienced the Automat in its heyday. Created at the tail-end of the Nineteenth Century, Automats consisted of a wall of cubbies containing simple […]
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Food Tech News: InnerPlant Launches Sensor Plants, $3.5 Million Grant for Cultivated Meat
I’m taking over the weekly Food Tech News post, and this week I bring you both plant-centric and meaty news. Money is being pumped into cultivated meat research, a plant-based […]
Delivery Hero Heads to Japan via Its foodpanda Service
Slow down, Delivery Hero, I can’t keep up with all your news this week. On the heels of multiple other announcements, the Berlin, Germany-based third-party delivery service said at the […]
Singapore’s Float Foods Unveils a Plant-Based Food Incubator for Indonesia
Plant-based food startup Float Foods said this week it has launched a new incubator for plant-based food innovators in Indonesia (h/t Green Queen). Dubbed NEWFOOD Startup 2020, the program is […]
Kenwood Partners With Drop to Add Scale Function to the Cooking Chef Stand Mixer
You have your smart ovens, coffee makers and fridges, but what about a smart stand mixer? Now’s your chance. Last week, Drop announced they’d partnered with Kenwood to build in […]
Somabar Adapts to Pandemic, Adds Booze, Coffee and Juice to its Drink Menu
When I last checked in with Somabar at our Food Tech Live event in 2019, the company was making an eponymous automated drink dispenser that served up low-proof cocktails. The […]
How AI is Transforming Food Development
This is the web version of our weekly newsletter. Subscribe to get all the best food tech news delivered to your inbox! In the 1982 movie Tron, the inner workings […]
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Farmstead Launches Grocery OS to Help Other Grocers Get Those Online Dollars
Online grocer Farmstead announced today that it is making its in-house grocery delivery software, Grocery OS, available to other national and regional grocers. Farmstead’s pitch is that Grocery OS can […]
The Inventor of the Consumer Sous Vide Circulator Heads to Anova
The Seattle Food Geek is going to San Francisco (or at least Zooming there). Today, Scott Heimendinger announced that he’ll be assuming the role of Chief Marketing Officer for Bay […]
Study: Online Grocery to Hit $250B, Account for 21.5 Percent of Total Grocery Sales
There are a lot of questions around the lasting impact the pandemic will have on the way we get our food. A new report out today from Mercatus and Incisiv […]
Odeko AI-Driven Platform Aims to Boost the Supply, Demand, and Lifespan of the Indie Coffeeshop
A lot of us dread the idea of a world where speciality coffeeshops are gone “going for coffee” means getting a Starbucks latte delivered via DoorDash. Dane Atkinson, CEO of […]
InFarm Raises $170M to Expand Its Vertical Farming Network
Berlin, Germany-based vertical farming company InFarm announced today it has raised $170 million in the first close of its Series C round, bringing its total funding so far to $304.5 […]