Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
Today Beyond Meat, the El Segundo, CA-based startup behind popular plant-based burgers, chicken strips, and sausages, announced a new product: Beyond Beef. The new product is meant to have the […]
When I first read that the Wall Street Journal put the deal size for the merger between Instant Brands and Pyrex’s parent company at about $2 billion, my first thought […]
A brief history lesson: When Walmart first became successful enough to expand outside its home state of Arkansas in the 1960s, the company didn’t immediately barrel into heavily populated coastal […]
If you’re around my age, when you think of IBM, an image of big mainframe computers with giant rotating tape loops come to mind (I’m old). But for you young’uns, […]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver‘s main piece over the weekend was on robots and automation. If you are in the food service industry you can (and should) watch the […]
Corelle Brands announced Monday that it plans to merge with Instant Brands, the decade-old startup best known for turning the Instant Pot into a consumer favorite in the world of […]
Albertsons announced today that it has partnered with location-sharing technology startup Glympse to give shoppers real-time status updates on their delivery or at-store pickup orders. The service is available now […]
Last week, my colleague Chris Albrecht noted that FedEx is launching an autonomous delivery vehicle called SameDay Bot. Pizza Hut, whose delivery strategy has had to undergo major changes in […]
NotCo, a Chile-based startup that uses AI to create plant-based versions of dairy products, has raised $30 million led by The Craftory investment fund, with participation from Jeff Bezo’s Bezos […]
As a global conglomerate, Samsung is into a lot of things: appliances, phones, chips, tanker ships. But what about food tech? Well now that too, at least after the acquisition […]
In the world of the connected kitchen, there’s been no shortage of tech-forward scales, fridges and ovens the past few years, but one area that’s remained remarkably devoid of innovation […]
There’s a scene in Being John Malkovich where the titular character crawls through a portal inside his own head. The result is a crazy world filled with “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich” […]
