Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Ovation, a software platform that gathers customer feedback for restaurants and retailers, announced today it has raised $965,000 in seed funding led by Monta Vista Capital and includes 500 Startups. […]
In a move that underscores how competitive the food delivery landscape is getting, UK-based service Deliveroo announced it will pull its business out of Germany on August 16, according to […]
Growing up, UHF TV stations would run Japanese anime cartoons that featured giant robots. Fast forward a few decades to when I finally got the chance to visit Tokyo, and […]
Ohayōgozaimasu! Greetings from Tokyo, where we’ve been spending the week for our third year of SKS Japan, connecting with a global ecosystem of companies and academics in the food innovation space. […]
The restaurant biz may have once been seen as slow to adopt technology, but that’s less and less the case these days. In fact, between all the apps, kiosks, back-of-house […]
In a move worthy of reality TV, Deliveroo has launched a “Restaurant Rescue Team” to identify and help struggling restaurants and revive them as delivery-only businesses. According to a blog […]
DoorDash is in talks with banks to open a line of credit for $400 million ahead of a possible IPO, according to an article published on Bloomberg late Thursday. As […]
This is the web version of our weekly Future Food newsletter. Be sure to subscribe here so you don’t miss a beat! Konichiwa! Greetings from the muggy, beautiful city of Tokyo, where […]
At SKS Japan this week, lots of speakers have been predicting what the future of food might look like: it might be cooked by robotic articulating arms, it might be […]
I’ve been eating my way through Tokyo all week, but it wasn’t until the very end of my trip that I realized that in all my wanderings, all my bowls […]
Uber had a bummer of a Q2 earnings call, with the ride logistics company reporting $3.17 billion in revenues but $5.2 billion in losses for the quarter. While the overall […]
Furthering its seeming aim to reach across the whole of the restaurant business, OpenTable announced this week a partnership with Berlin, Germany-based restaurant reservations platform Quandoo. The integration of the […]
