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Cheetah Now Lets You Buy Prepared Restaurant Meals with Your Groceries
At the height of the everybody-panic-grocery-shelves-are-bare phase of this pandemic, Bay Area-based startup Cheetah pivoted from selling food to restaurants to selling that same food directly to consumers. Today, Cheetah […]
Plant-Based Sushi Startup Ocean Hugger Foods Falls Victim to COVID-19, Ceases Operations
COVID-19 has claimed another food-related business, this time plant-based seafood startup Ocean Hugger Foods. The company, which had raised $500,000 in late 2019, had been gaining traction through much of […]
Digital Meal Voucher Company Swile Raised $78.7M to Expand Internationally
French startup Swile, previously known as Lunchr, announced today it has raised a $78.7 million (€70 million) Series C round, according to TechCrunch. The round was led by Index Ventures, […]
Run a Restaurant From Your Phone, Thanks to This Latin American Tech Startup
Click through any restaurant industry publication in these pandemic-stricken days and you’ll likely assume that to run an off-premises restaurant, you need to load up on as much tech as […]
The Premium-ization of Coffee and Taking Roasting to the Edge
Bellwether Coffee makes ventless, electric coffee roasters the size of a fridge that automate the roasting process. It’s an interesting play to take coffee roasting away from centralized producers and […]
ezCater Lauches Relish to Reimagine Corporate Lunches
In case you hadn’t heard, the buffet as we know it is dead. That includes the catered office buffet. Now, as people head back to the office, companies need new […]
Instacart Released a Feature to Battle Tip-Baiting
As if a braving stores during a global pandemic wasn’t enough for Instacart’s Shoppers (the gig workers who actually go into the grocery stores and make the deliveries), they’ve also […]
Report: How Microbiome and DNA-based Personalized Nutrition Will Change the Way We Eat (Spoon Plus)
The “first wave” of personalized nutrition is already here. These are companies that use data from wearable devices to track consumers’ weight, exercise quantities, temperature and other factors that can […]
Tovala’s David Rabie on How He Built a Loyal User Base For His Smart Kitchen & Food Delivery Startup
Despite the complexity of building two businesses at once and presenting them as one integrated whole, Tovala’s managed to build a highly loyal user base with what is arguably the […]
ChefReady to Launch Ghost Kitchens With a Mom-and-Pop Mentality
Denver, CO-based ChefReady will launch its first ghost kitchen later this summer, in part to help keep restaurants alive that have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. According to a […]
COVID Could Usher in a New Trend: Frozen Food as Medicine
It seems that Americans are turning to frozen food during the coronavirus pandemic. Last month, the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) reported that sales of frozen food jumped 94 percent […]