Will BSH’s PAI Usher In The Era of the Kitchen Projection Interface?
The idea of using your countertop as a touchscreen interface has been something big tech and kitchen appliance makers have been playing around with for much of the past decade. […]
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California Senate Greenlights Home Based Food Businesses With Passage of AB-626
This week marked an important milestone for aspiring chefs looking to build a home-based food business: the Homemade Food Operations Act (AB 626) was unanimously passed by the California state […]
Kroger Continues Aggressive Delivery Moves with Expanded Instacart Deal
Kroger announced yesterday that it is expanding its same-day home grocery delivery service through a renewed partnership with Instacart. The move will make Instacart’s service available in more than 1,600 […]
LG to Integrate Drop into its Smart Appliances
Drop, the smart recipe software startup, today announced a partnership that will put its guided cooking software on LG’s SmartThinq line of appliances. This adds to a growing list of […]
Crowdfunding Fiascos: Smart Plate, iGulu, and the Curious Case of HOPii Shutting Down
Crowdfunding your hardware product ain’t easy. Well, getting a crowd to fund your hardware product at least seems easier than actually getting that product to market. Crowdfunding cases in point: […]
For Piada, the Best Foodtech Is a High-Quality Experience
Not every idea scribbled on a bar napkin sees the light of day, but in the case of Piada, a fast-casual chain from Columbus, Ohio, the bar napkin was just […]
GE Appliances and Electrolux Expand Google Assistant Capabilities
The big IFA show is set start over in Berlin, and like CES earlier this year, Google is making a big push there for its Google Assistant, working overtime to […]
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From Flower to Flour, Planetarians is Upcycling Defatted Sunflower Seeds
One company’s trash is another’s treasure. Such is the case with defatted sunflower seeds — the hulls and fiber left behind after the seeds have been pressed for oil — […]
Kroger and University of Cincinnati Team Up to Join the Grocery Innovation Race
Yesterday, Kroger announced a partnership with the University of Cincinnati to launch an “innovation lab” at the university’s 1819 Innovation Hub. As its name suggests, the 1819 Innovation Hub is […]
Do you Really Need a Smart Olive Oil Bottle? You may Actually Want Olivery’s
As I explain what the Olivery (pronounced like delivery) does, you will be tempted to scoff and stop reading. But power through that response because, on the surface anyway, Olivery […]
Robots, Instagram, and Flan: Highlights from our Future of Restaurants Meetup
For our latest food tech meetup, we decided to do things a little bit differently. We were lucky enough to work with Chef Eric Rivera (formerly of Alinea in Chicago) […]
Mitte Raises $10.6 Million for its Countertop Mineral Water Machine
Mitte, the German startup behind a countertop appliance that turns plain water into mineral water, today announced it has secured $10.6 million in seed funding. The round was led by […]