Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
As you’ve already heard by now, some U.S. states — notably Georgia and South Carolina — are set to relax their quarantine rules and allow certain non-essential businesses to reopen […]
The New York City Council wants to limit the commission fees that third-party delivery services like Grubhub and DoorDash can charge restaurants while dining rooms remain closed in response to […]
It’s a very specific cultural moment when a Twitter thread about deriving yeast at home from the skin of fruits goes viral, but here we are. The Spoon editorial team […]
For the past couple of years, robots were the shiny new object for restaurants. They could automate cooking, serving and delivering food, and even wash the dishes when all was […]
One of the perks of going into an office, at least for many in the startup world, was the catered lunches. Sheltering in place and people being forced to work […]
Instacart appears to be right smack in the middle of a Venn diagram of the humongous demand for online grocery delivery and decimated job market where people need work. Exactly […]
Chickpea protein is bulking up. Today Israel-based company InnovoPro announced it had raised a $15 million funding round led by Jerusalem Venture Partners with participation from CPT Capital. This brings […]
Big Idea Ventures (BIV), the hybrid VC firm-slash-accelerator, first caught my attention last year when it launched the New Protein Fund, a $50 million fund targeting seed-stage companies in the […]
The U.K,’s Competition Markets and Authority (CMA) has approved Takeaway.com’s £6.2 billion ($7.6 billion USD) takeover of British food delivery service Just Eat. The merged company also announced it had […]
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, people mainly worried about where their food came from. Was it organic, locally raised, grain-fed, etc. (It was a simpler time.) But as the virus has […]
Bread seems to be the unofficial food of quarantine. No wonder — it’s comforting, it’s affordable, and it’s a soothing home project to tackle, if you’re into that sort of […]
With the coronavirus pandemic forcing me to order more things than ever online — from groceries to toiletries to fancy dried beans — I’m accruing quite a lot of single-use […]
