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A First Look at Roku Shoku, Sony’s Culinary Recording System to Capture and Replicate Chefs’ Recipes

This past week in Japan, Sony unveiled a project they’ve been developing in secret called Roku Shoku, a culinary recording system designed to capture exactly how a chef prepares a […]

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Three Days of Food Innovation & Discovery in Tokyo: Scenes From SKS Japan 2024

In January of 2017, little did I know that a chance meeting in the Venetian in Las Vegas would eventually lead to the creation of Japan’s most influential and well-attended […]

Meet The Reimagining Restaurants Podcast, and Check Out The First Episode With Wow Bao’s Geoff Alexander

Here at The Spoon, we’ve covered hundreds of restaurant operators over the past half-decade, in part because we love restaurants and restaurant tech, but mostly because restaurant operators are some […]

GFI: Fermentation Fuels Q3 2024 Alt-Protein Investments, While Cultivated Meat Lags

This week, the Good Food Institute released its quarterly alt-protein investment update, so I thought it’d be a good time to check in and see which way things are trending. […]

Live Event: Using Generative AI to Build Next-Generation Flavors & Fragrances

Join us today for a live event at 8:30 AM PT, featuring the project leads for NotCo’s new AI to develop flavors and fragrances. Register and watch below or head […]

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Robot Delivery Startup Starship Teams Up With European Food Delivery Company Bolt

Sidewalk robotic delivery Starship Technologies announced this week they are teaming up with Bolt, a European multiplatform delivery company, to launch a new food delivery service using Starship’s autonomous robots […]

Spoonful of AI Podcast: Raj Singh Talks GPT Food Cam and Building Websites With AI

We caught up with Raj Singh, head of Solo for Mozilla (and maker of the GPT Food Cam app) for an episode of The Spoon’s newest podcast, Spoon Full of […]

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Cashierless Checkout Pioneer Grabango Shuts Down After Failing to Secure Additional Funding

Grabango, a grocery-tech startup that raised over $93 million for its cashierless checkout technology, is shutting down, The Spoon has learned. The closure follows the company’s inability to secure the […]

NotCo Has Created A Generative AI for Flavor and Fragrance That Can Create Unique Formulations With Text Prompts

Food-tech company NotCo has developed a novel generative AI model, the Generative Aroma Transformer (GAT), capable of creating new flavor and fragrance formulations. The model, which the company presented on […]

AI Model Helps Research Team Create The World’s First Gene-Edited Giant Freshwater Prawn

This week, the a research partnership comprised of Watershed AC, Evogene, and Ben-Gurion University announced they have successfully produced the first gene-edited giant freshwater prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) using CRISPR technology. […]

Tech-Forward Convenience Store Chain Choice Market Closes its Doors

Choice Market, the Denver-based convenience store chain known for blending a focus on fresh and high-quality food with a tech-forward approach to retail, has closed permanently. CEO Mike Fogarty announced […]

Ome CEO Akshita Iyer Talks Second-Generation Smart Stove Knob

Last month, smart kitchen startup Ome launched its second generation smart knob, a retrofit device that gives gas or electric stoves the ability to be turned off remotely. The new […]