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In case you hadn’t heard (but you totally heard), restaurant dining rooms are closing up shop again. Whether it’s states mandating the closures (California), chains delaying their openings (McDonald’s), or […]
KFC announced a partnership with Beyond Meat today to bring plant-based chicken sandwiches to 50 KFC locations across Southern California. Starting on July 20, the Beyond Meat Chicken will be […]
Biometrics in the foodservice industry tends to raise questions, but the debate over whether restaurants should use it may soon become a thing of the past. Founders Table, a restaurant […]
Today Instacart sued Cornershop, which Uber bought a majority stake in last year, alleging that Cornershop stole product images and other intellectual property. The Information was first to report on […]
DoorDash announced today that delivery is now available from Walgreens drug stores in Chicago, Atlanta, and Denver, and will broaden that reach to other markets later this summer. This move […]
Yesterday, venture fund SOSV announced a partnership with Mayfield to create the Genesis Consortium, which will invest alongside SOSV into pre-seed-state companies participating in SOSV’s IndieBio accelerator. IndieBio is perhaps […]
Miso Robotics, maker of Flippy the robot cook, announced yesterday that it has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign in the UK on the CrowdCube platform. Equity crowdfunding is a way […]
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Smart shopping carts is the phrase of the week, evidently. Indeed, news stories of such carts that power cashierless checkout at grocery are popping up all over The Spoon recently. […]
Today, fast-casual brand Chipolte said it is celebrating the launch of its 100th Chipotlane, the chain’s version of a high-tech drive-thru, but there was much more to the announcement than […]
You would think that raising more that $360 million to magically transform yeast microbes into realistic (and delicious) dairy-like products would be enough for Perfect Day Co-Founders Ryan Pandya and […]
If the first pandemic-spurred lockdown drove us all to bake bread, perhaps quarantine 2.0 will inspire people to roast their own coffee beans. If so, devices like the BeanBon could […]
