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More COVID-Related Cuts for Food Delivery: Grab Lays Off 5 Percent of Its Workforce
Singapore-based food delivery service Grab is letting go of about 5 percent of its workforce and “winding down” several projects and functions, according to AgFunder News. The layoffs are part […]
San Francisco DA Sues DoorDash Over Worker Classification
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is suing DoorDash over misclassifying its delivery drivers and couriers as independent contractors, rather than employees, according to TechCrunch. The lawsuit seeks for DoorDash […]
Beyond Meat Announces 10-Pack, Narrows Price Point Gap With Traditional Meat, Plans D2C Site
Beyond Meat today announced its new Cookout Classic, a limited edition 10-pack of its plant-based burgers going on sale this month at the majority Walmart and Target stores in the […]
S2G Ventures’ Managing Director on the 4 FoodTech Trends That Will Rise Post-COVID (Spoon Plus)
I wanted to (virtually) sit down with Krishnan to discuss S2G’s recent white paper entitled “The Future of Food in the Age of COVID-19.” It outlines four foodtech trends that […]
Sales Through Grass Roots’ D2C Meat Marketplace are up 400 Percent Over Last Year
One of the many ways COVID-19 has impacted the meal journey this year is how we get our meat. The pandemic illustrated the shortcomings of our over-consolidated supply chain and […]
Farm-to-Phone App CropSwap Launches Subscription Box Service
Thanks to the pandemic, we’ve seen a surge in online grocery shopping and a rising demand from consumers to know more about where their food comes from than they’d traditionally […]
Irish Grocery Startup Buymie Raises €5.8M, Expands Into UK
Buymie, a grocery delivery company based in Dublin, Ireland, announced today that it has raised €5.8 million (~$6.53 USD) in new funding. The round was led by Wheatsheaf Group, the […]
We Gon’ Eat Well and Cook Great: Shifting Food Equity
Publisher’s Note: Here at The Spoon, we wanted to find ways to better highlight voices with a lived understanding of the deep-rooted, long-standing systemic racism in the United States, black […]
Gaming, Glass Houses, and Other Signals of Restaurant Recovery
Everyone’s talking about Just Eat Takeaway’s acquisition of Grubhub this week, so let’s talk about mannequins in restaurants instead. At a virtual workshop for The Spoon this week, Max Elder, […]
FoodTech Intelligence Brief: Evaluating Permanency of COVID Related Behavior Change
And now, with most countries trying to reboot their economies, food-related companies have the challenge of determining which behavioral changes were temporary and permanent. Many of the temporary surge behaviors […]
MycoTechnology Raises $39M Series D for its Mushroom Fermentation Platform
MycoTechnology, which transforms mycelia into functional ingredients like alternate protein, announced this week that it has raised a $39 million Series D round of funding. Food Navigator first reported the […]
