How Are You Getting Your Groceries? Delivery, Curbside Pickup or In-Store?
It’s easy as a reporter to get wrapped up in your own little corner of the world. If you aren’t careful, you confuse your own experiences as a stand-in for […]
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SavorEat Plans to Build an Appliance For The Home That Prints & Cooks Meat
“That’s our goal,” said Vizman when I caught up with her via a zoom call. “Where we can also have, next to a microwave, we can have machines that you […]
Burger King Doubles Down on Tech, Delivery to Lure Finland Away From McDonald’s
Burger King Finland is at it again. The same QSR chain that brought us the “silent drive-thru” last year is now offering free delivery to Helsinki residents who are physically […]
Aspara’s High-Tech At-Home Farm Launches in the U.S.
Hong Kong-based Aspara, which makes high-tech, tabletop-sized farming units for homes, is now shipping devices across the U.S. through retailers like Home Depot, Wayfair, and via its own website. The […]
AiFi to Launch 330 Autonomous Stores by the End of 2021
AiFi, a cashierless checkout startup, announced today that it will deploy 330 new and retrofitted autonomous stores globally by the end of 2021. AiFi is perhaps best known for its […]
Online Grocery Sales Climbed to $7.2 Billion in June
U.S. grocery e-commerce sales continued to break records as they hit $7.2 billion in June, up 9 percent from May (which saw $6.6 billion in sales), according to a new […]
Glacierfire’s Ice+Fries Seems Like Everything You’d Want from an Icelandic Robot Bar
Iceland is having a bit of a moment right now, thanks to the success of Netflix’s Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, which stars Will Ferrell and Rachel […]
McDonald’s Halts Reopening Plans. Here’s What That Could Mean for Restaurants and Restaurant Tech
McDonald’s is pausing its reopening plans for dining rooms for three weeks following a rise in coronavirus cases around the U.S., according to The Wall Street Journal. To be clear, […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Deliveroo’s New Table Service Feature
U.K.-based food delivery service Deliveroo launched a new feature this week that sounds convenient on the surface but could cause some problems for more than one party in the restaurant […]
Chipotle Launches a Direct-to-Consumer Virtual Farmers’ Market for Its Suppliers
As if helping reinvent the restaurant weren’t enough, Chipotle is now trying to digitize the farmers’ market concept. Today, the fast casual chain announced the Chipotle Virtual Farmers’ Market, which […]
Impossible Makes its Plant-Based Sausage Available to All Restaurants in the U.S.
Well, that was fast. Impossible’s plant-based sausage, which debuted at CES in January of this year and recently rolled out nationally at Burger King and Starbucks, is now available to […]
Some States Halt Re-Opening, Bars Ordered to Shut Down
Twelve states have stopped their former plans to re-open businesses amid continued growth and record setting numbers for coronavirus infections. Florida and Texas have shut down bars, and Texas also […]
