Ottonomy’s Delivery Robot Drops Food at Your Door and Indoors
There are a few common threads among most delivery robot startups like Starship, Kiwibot and Postmates: They are all using cooler-sized rover ‘bots. Each of their robots has just one […]
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Top 3 Tech Trends for QSR Redesigns
This is the web version of our weekly restaurant tech newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. The “next-generation” restaurant format isn’t […]
What’s After Ghost Kitchens? The Ghost Bar, Of Course
With ghost kitchens now a mainstay in the restaurant biz, it’s only ever been a matter of time before someone took the concept and applied it to the bar scene. […]
Restaurants Hate Third-Party Delivery Services, Actually
This is the web version of our weekly restaurant tech newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. When it comes to talking […]
Will 2021 Be a Big Year for Food Robots? (Yes!)
Two years ago, I predicted that 2019 would be a breakout year for food robots. Let’s just say that I was a little premature with that particular prognostication. In my […]
Panasonic Testing Delivery Robots in Japanese Smart Town
Electronics giant Panasonic announced today that it has started testing autonomous delivery robots on public roads in the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town in Japan. Initial tests started in November; the […]
Yandex Robots Roaming Russia Delivering Restaurant Meals
Robots from Yandex, a tech giant which is kind of like Russia’s Google, have started making restaurant deliveries in the Russian cities of Moscow and Innopolis, the company announced in […]
The Food Tech Show: Cultured Meat’s Big Month
This week the Spoon editorial team got together to talk about the latest food tech news, including whether or not cultured meat would venture into, well, humans. We all got […]
Requiem for the Dining Room
Welcome to our weekly restaurant tech newsletter. Sign up today to get updates on the rapidly changing nature of the food tech industry. At one point most figured it would take about […]
Lyft vs. DoorDash
We knew a DoorDash IPO was on the way, and it arrived this past week packaged with news that the company turned a profit in Q2 and has enough cash […]
DoorDash Files for IPO, Could Start Trading in December
DoorDash unveiled its public S-1 filing this morning after confidentially filing to go public earlier this year. The San Francisco-based third-party delivery service is expected to begin trading on the […]
Prop 22’s Success Has Unsettling Implications for Third-Party Delivery’s Power
One certainty we woke up to yesterday is that California had passed Prop. 22, the controversial ballot measure aimed at keeping California gig workers independent contractors. The success of the […]
