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Is IFT’s Launch of an AI Tool For Food Scientists an Indicator of Where Trade Associations Are Going in Age of AI?
July 3, 2025 Michael Wolf

July 1, 2025

From Red Bull to Zevia, Amy Taylor Shares Lessons Learned From a Career Built Around Buzzy Beverages

June 30, 2025

Study: AI-Powered Drones Fuel Advances in Precision Ag for Early Detection of Crop Stress

June 26, 2025

Could Lasers Made From Olive Oil Be The Next-Gen Freshness Detector or Use-By Label?

February 1, 2025

A Conversation With Bear Robotics’ John Ha on LG Deal and The Future of The Company

Creator Re-Opens With a New Burger Making-Robot Customers Can Control

August 19, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Creator, the San Francisco restaurant made famous by its burger-making robot, was among the thousands of restaurants shut down by the pandemic (even though it engineered an awesome germ-free airlock […]

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San Francisco Restaurant to Serve UPSIDE Foods’ Cultivated Chicken

August 19, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

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Berkeley, California-based cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods, announced today that it has partnered with Dominique Crenn, the co-owner and chef of the three Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn restaurant in San Francisco. […]

SJW Robotics Aims to Franchise Its Automated Asian Meal Kiosk

August 18, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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One of the emerging trends we’re seeing in food robotics is the fully automated restaurant-in-a-box-style kiosk. These are big, standalone devices that store ingredients and cook up a variety of […]

Restaurants Are ‘Always Blamed’ When It Comes to Bad Delivery. Here’s How Tech Can Help

August 18, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Who is responsible when something goes wrong with delivery? A succinct-yet-apt answer to that question recently came from fast casual chain Wow Bao’s President and CEO Geoff Alexander, who spoke […]

Apeel Raises $250 Million to Accelerate Its Fight Against Food Waste

August 18, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Apeel, best known for its shelf-life-extension technology for produce, has raised a $250 million Series E round of funding led by Temasek. Additional participants include Mirae Asset Global Investments, GIC, […]

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When You Think About Food Robots, Consider the Remote Mining Facility

August 18, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Whenever I talk with a food robot company, particularly a startup building an automated kiosk or vending machine, they always list the same target markets. Those include airports, universities, hospitals, […]

Singapore-based Shandi Raises $700,000 Seed Round

August 17, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

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Shandi, an alternative protein company based in Singapore, announced this week in a press release sent to The Spoon that it has raised $700,000 USD in a second seed round. […]

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Nowadays’ Alternative Chicken Nuggets Taste Like the Real Thing

August 17, 2021 Ashlen Wilder

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If you keep up with news in the plant-based space, then you might be aware that there’s somewhat of a “chicken war” going on. Big players like Impossible Foods, Beyond […]

Trademark Filing Indicates Beyond Meat Could Add Milk to its Lineup

August 17, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Plant-based meat giant Beyond Meat has filed for a trademark on the name Beyond Milk, indicating that the company could be prepping for a move into alternative milk category. Food […]

Picnic Announces Commercial Availability and Pricing of its Pizza Robot

August 17, 2021 Chris Albrecht

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Picnic announced today that its pizza-assembling robot is now commercially available for pre-orders and that its robot-as-a-service will cost between $3,500 and $5,000 per month, depending on factors such as […]

Cox Enterprises Acquires High-Tech Greenhouse Grower BrightFarms

August 17, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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Cox Enterprises has acquired indoor farming company BrightFarms, the two companies announced today via press release. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The companies noted that the acquisition […]

Q&A: The Future of Restaurant Delivery Bots, According to Serve Robotics’ Ali Kashani

August 16, 2021 Jennifer Marston

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If Serve Robotics CEO Ali Kashani has his way, more restaurants in the near-term future will offload the last mile of their deliveries not to human couriers but to wheeled […]

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