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Makr Shakr Launches “Automation Stipend” to Retrain Humans Impacted by Robots

One of the biggest questions looming over the future of an automated workforce is what happens to the human workers replaced by robots? Makr Shakr, the company behind the robot […]

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Google Adds Hungr to its Roster of Third-party Delivery Partners

Google continues to connect your search for food with the ability to get it quickly, as the company has now integrated third-party restaurant ordering and delivery service Hungr to Google […]

Nuro and Walmart Partner for Autonomous Grocery Delivery in Houston

Walmart and Nuro announced a collaboration today in which the two companies will pilot autonomous grocery delivery in Houston, TX via Nuro’s self-driving pod-like vehicles. According to the press release: […]

Domino’s Expands GPS Tracking Tech Across U.S. Stores

Domino’s announced this week it will expand its GPS tracking technology to roughly a quarter of its U.S. stores by the end of 2019. The chain has been piloting this […]

Yumi Raises $8M for Weekly Baby Food Delivery Service

Today Yumi, the organic food delivery service for babies and kids, announced it has raised an $8 million strategic round from the founders and CEOs of Warby Parker, Sweetgreen, Uber, […]

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Foodmaven Harvests $15.3M Series B to Sell Imperfect Food to Restaurants

Today Denver, Colorado-based FoodMaven announced it had closed a $15.3 million Series B (via Forbes). The round was led by Tao Capital, who had previously invested in the startup’s Series […]

Postmates’ Serve Robot Spotted (and Filmed) Making Deliveries in LA

From the looks of it, Postmates’ Serve robot is ready to roll into action, almost exactly a year after the delivery service unveiled it. First, Serve made an appearance on […]

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Report: 70 Percent of Delivery Orders in 2022 Will Come From Third-party Services Like DoorDash

Restaurant food delivery from third-party services like DoorDash and Grubhub will account for 70 percent of all delivery orders by 2022, according to a new report from CBRE Group. It’s […]

Miele Acquires Consumer Indoor Vertical Farm Company Agrilution

Miele announced today that it has acquired the assets of the German company, Agrilution, makers of the Plantcube indoor vertical farm. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Agrilution’s Plantcubes […]

DoorDash, Impossible Foods Among the Fastest Growing Brands in the U.S. in 2019

Food tech companies have a major presence among the fastest growing brands in the U.S. in 2019, according to a new report from Morning Consult Brand Intelligence that ranks brands […]

Apeel Avocados Now on Store Shelves in Europe

Apeel, the startup that makes a powder coating to extend the shelf life of produce, announced today that its specially treated avocados are now available to shoppers in Denmark and […]

Spoon Market Map: Ghost Kitchens in 2019

Just half a decade ago, the phrase “ghost kitchen” referred to restaurants that looked legit on Grubhub and Seamless but were actually digital fronts for unregulated kitchens. In other words, […]