Upicnic Delivers Outdoor Fun in the Park (in NYC)
My wife loves picnics, but I’m not as huge a fan. It just feels like so much… hassle. You have to make all the food, fit it in a container, […]
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Dutch Grocery Delivery Service Picnic Cuts out the Middleman and Possible Profits
All eyes are on Amsterdam-based grocery-delivery startup Picnic, fresh out of a 100 million euro ($123.5 million dollars) investment from a number of Dutch firms which will allow them to […]
Scoop: Kalanick’s Latest Idea for Disrupting Food May Be No-Fee Bulk Food Delivery & Automated Pick-Up Kiosks
When Travis Kalanick showed up at the Food on Demand conference this past May, technology and restaurant industry insiders could hardly believe it. After all, the Uber cofounder had gained […]
SKS 2024 Preview: Clayton Wood Talks The Current State of Food Robotics
We’re just one month away from the Smart Kitchen Summit, so we’re going to be checking and hearing from some of our speakers. First up is Clayton Wood, a long-time […]
Food Tech Weekly: AI’s Impact on Food Accelerating, Whirlpool Lays Off Yummly Team
This is the online version of The Spoon Newsletter. You can subscribe to The Spoon and get deliver director to your inbox. Over the past month, we’ve seen more and […]
Watch as This Robot Pizza Chain Operator Breaks Down the Cost Each Part of the Pizza-Making Process
For small operators (and big ones as well) in the pizza business, Andrew Simmons’s posts on Linkedin have become must-read material. That’s because Simmons, who I wrote about last year […]
Watch The Figure 01 Robot Feed A Human, Sort The Dishes, And Stammer Like Us Meatbags
While much of the startup funding for food-centric robots has been for task-specific fast-automation from the likes of Picnic Robot and Chef Robotics, some of the more intriguing – and […]
Hostel Pizzas to Stadium Slices: The Remarkable Growth of MOTO’s Robot-Powered Artisanal Pizza
For most of the past couple of decades, Lee Kindell ran a backpackers hostel and boutique hotel in Seattle where he made pizza for travelers as a way to make […]
Food Tech News: Samsung Heads Into the Kitchen, Robot Meets Artisan Pizza
The Spoon is back for another week of food tech news, and this week Michael Wolf and Allen Weiner talk about what’s going on in the smart kitchen, alt protein, […]
Sidewalk Delivery Startup Serve Robotics To Go Public via Reverse Merger
Serve Robotics, the sidewalk delivery robot startup that began life as a research project within Postmates called X, is going public via reverse merger, The Spoon has learned. The news, […]
Karakuri Joins The Growing List of Food Robot Startups That Have Shut Down
More bad news on the food robot front. Karakuri, a startup that made a robotic food kiosk that assembles various cold and hot ingredients into prepared meals, is shutting down, […]
Podcast: How One Operator is Reinventing His Restaurant With Technology
When Andrew Simmons decided to buy a restaurant in January 2020, little did the long-time entrepreneur know that in just a few months, he would be forced to close his […]
