With Beyond Meat and Impossible Burgers, Food is Now Software
I was excited when my wife brought home Beyond Burgers the other night, but I was soon crestfallen (don’t tell her this) when I saw that they were the old […]
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To Scale Meat Alternatives, Startups Need to Stop Relying on Meat-Industry Machinery
In a perfect world, we would never again have to think about how the sausage gets made. To make that fantasy a reality, we have to start thinking about how […]
Food Tech News: DoorDash Gets Into Grocery, Tesco Cuts Plastic and a Chinese Corporate Catering Investment
Happy Labor Day weekend, to those who get Monday off! Hopefully you’re having a summery last hurrah, or else doing nothing but basking inside in the air conditioning. Either way, […]
Japanese Startup Integriculture Tests Foie Gras Grown in a Lab
Foie gras is one of the most contentious animal products out there. In order to get the goose liver so fatty, farmers have to force feed the animals — a […]
Zuul Kitchens Is Launching a Huge Ghost Kitchen Facility Next Week in NYC
Come next week there will be a new kitchen in town, but it won’t have any dining room attached. Zuul Kitchens, a ghost kitchen facility that will exist solely for […]
Having Nearly 100% (or More!) Worker Turnover Per Year is Common for Panera and Other QSRs
A big reason we write about food robots so much (and built an entire conference around them), can be summed up in this stat: Panera loses nearly 100 percent of […]
SKS Q&A: Andreas Wuerfel on How Big Grocery Can Stay Innovative, Agile and Competitive
If you’ve eaten out in Europe, Russia, or Asia, chances are at some point you’ve patronized a café, hotel, or kiosk that purchase food from mega-retailer METRO AG. As the […]
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The Week in Restaurant Tech: The Rise of Integrated Delivery, More Tabletop Devices for the Dining Room
Got Labor Day plans? I hope they involve grilling. For most folks, they’ll almost inevitably involve a restaurant, too, and an increasing number of people will get their restaurant food […]
Future Food: Why Atlanta is the Perfect Place for a Beyond Meat to Launch its Fried Chicken
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New Coalition Forms to Bring Cultured Meat to Market Faster
Today five cellular agriculture and aquaculture companies announced that they have formed a new coalition to educate and advocate for cultured meat — that is, meat or seafood grown outside […]
Cala Raises €1M for its Vegetarian Pasta Making Robot
In addition to the coffee, smoothies, cheeseburgers, chicken tenders and pizza robots are making, you can now add pasta dishes to that list. Paris-based Cala has developed a pasta cooking […]
ZMP’s CarriRo Rover Robot Aims to Make Food Deliveries in Japan
One of the things that struck me during my recent trip to Tokyo was the lack of robots. I figured a town so futuristic would be filled with them. But […]