Daily news and analysis about the food tech revolution
There are two opposing forces during our sheltering in place and social distancing. We are actively avoiding other people, especially those we don’t know, and also actively working to maintain […]
I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m in a cafeteria dining situation — school, offices, Whole Foods hot bar — I always load up my plate high and… never […]
Food and beverage management platform HungerBox has raised a $12 million Series C round to expand its digital cafeteria solution in Asia (hat tip to The Economic Times). The round […]
Fast casual salad chain Sweetgreen, known equally for tech-forward initiatives and its emphasis on fresh greens, wants to change young students’ relationship to their vegetables. The Washington, D.C.-based chain announced […]
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 […]
Coffee lovers in Berlin have a new way to get their daily fix: a flat rate subscription for coffee in cafes. It’s the first coffee subscription model of its – but will it work out in the long term?
When we first wrote about Truebird, the quiet NYC startup building automated micro-cafes, we didn’t have many details about the company or its go-to market strategy. But I had the […]
The food at hospital cafeterias (and cafeterias in general) can get a bad rap. But today in Seattle, limp salads and neon jello were replaced by crispy chicken nuggets that […]
Office food can often be uninspiring. The good news? Markov is rolling out a service called Hot Pantry that is a “Google cafeteria in a box.”
Let’s face it: Not every company is a Google when it comes to profitability, technology prowess or lunch. Wait, lunch? Yep. Google’s food program has become the gold standard in […]
When we talk about robots in restaurants, we often talk about the human jobs that will be lost to this impending automation. But a cafe that opened in Tokyo this […]
Earlier this year, Chinese company JD.com said that it planned on opening 1,000 robot-staffed restaurants across China by the year 2020. Well, now it has just 999 more to go […]
