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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

With Production Milestone, New Culture Eyes Price Parity for Its Animal-Free Mozzarella

August 15, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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 […]

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Robomart Debuts Fully Autonomous Mobile Grocery Store Concept As It Announces $2M Seed Round

August 14, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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 […]

Barsys Makes Case For Adding Style to Bartender Robot Category With the Barsys 360

August 11, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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

August 10, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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

August 9, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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 […]

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Innit Debuts FoodLM to Power More Contextually Relevant Answers from Generative AI Platforms

August 8, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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

August 7, 2023 Michael Wolf

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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, […]

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A Tale of Two Ghost Kitchens: Why Wow Bao Wowed and MrBeast Bombed

August 4, 2023 Michael Wolf

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This week, James Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, sued Virtual Dining Concepts, the company behind his virtual restaurant brand. In the lawsuit, MrBeast and his legal team claim that “Virtual […]

Adam Yee Makes Us Dumplings and Talks About Building His Startup at SKS Japan

August 2, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Ever since longtime food entrepreneur and podcaster Adam Yee announced his new better-for-you dumpling brand Sobo Foods, I’d been hoping to head to California to try the tasty-looking Asian comfort […]

Take a Peek at TechMagic’s Robot Ramen Restaurant in the Heart of Shibuya

July 31, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Last year when I visited Tokyo, I ate at a fully robotic pasta restaurant called E Vino Spaghetti. from a Japanese startup called TechMagic. Built by a Japanese startup TechMagic, […]

Kroger Begins Testing Cake Printing Robot From Beehex at Location in Ohio

July 26, 2023 Michael Wolf

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Late last month, grocery giant Kroger began to trial the use of a cake-printing robot made by Beehex in the Gahanna, Ohio, location, The Spoon has learned. The new Cake […]

Ninja’s Thirsti Drink Machine Shows Why It Went Public While Other Countertop Brands Go Out of Business

July 25, 2023 Michael Wolf

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When I first got the email this morning from the Ninja PR rep, I got excited and thought maybe the company had gone and created a drink replicator similar to […]

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