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Robot Bartender Now Serving Drinks in Tokyo Train Station

Just when you thought Tokyo couldn’t get any more futuristic, the city’s subway system has a new robot bartender serving up drinks to commuters. The Daily Mail reported this week […]

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Exclusive: PicoBrew is Up For Sale

PicoBrew, the Seattle-based maker of high-tech beer, spirits and coffee brewing appliances, is up for sale the Spoon has learned. According to company CEO Bill Mitchell, PicoBrew had until mid-December […]

Week in Restaurants: Ghost Kitchens Might Be Hurting Small Businesses

Food delivery has a dark side. That we knew, but it does seem to be getting more airtime lately, with legislators and restaurants alike pushing back against some (okay, most) […]

In 5 Years We’ll Each Have a GPS to Guide All Our Food Choices, says Suggestic CEO

Ten years ago if you were driving somewhere you’d have to either memorize directions or print out a paper map. Cut to now, and it’s almost unheard of to drive […]

Future Food: So… Lab-grown Breastmilk is a Thing Now

This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. Subscribe to get the most important news about alternate and plant-based foods directly in your inbox! Here is a sentence I […]

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Kaigo Raises $3M for Personalized Food as Medicine Delivery Service

This week KAIGO, a personalized meal delivery service, announced it had raised $3 million in seed funding (hat/tip FoodBusinessNews). Micromanagement Ventures and Mike Lee, the founder of MyFitnessPal, both participated. […]

Will the Restaurants Themselves Be Third-Party Delivery’s Biggest Opponent?

A while back, I wrote that third-party delivery services like DoorDash and Grubhub are engulfed in a massive fight now against all manner of opponents, from government regulators to investors […]

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Nuro Debuts New R2 Self-Driving Vehicle, Gets Federal OK for Use on Public Roads

Nuro unveiled its second-generation autonomous delivery vehicle today and announced that it’s been given the greenlight to drive on public roads, thanks to some federal exemptions. The new R2 is […]

Troubled Food Delivery Service Waitr Shifts Drivers From Hourly to Contract Workers

Food delivery service Waitr said this week it is shifting its model so that drivers are classified as contract workers rather than hourly ones, according to KATC. Under the new […]

BIOMILQ Has Grown The Main Components of Human Breastmilk in a Lab

A new startup called BIOMILQ today announced that it had successfully produced human casein and lactose, the predominant components found in breastmilk, through their new patent-pending process. In short, they’ve […]

Researchers Upcycle McDonald’s Waste Oil into 3D Printing Resin

We know that french fries aren’t good for you, but perhaps some good may come from our addiction to them. Researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough recently showed that […]