The CES 2023 Food Tech Review
Despite all that hard work, we still made time to check out many of the food tech startups making their way to Las Vegas in January and, now, we have […]
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Softbank Brings Yo-Kai, Servi & Pepper Together to Demo End-to-End Roboticized Food Service
Last week, the robotics division of Japanese tech and energy conglomerate Softbank showed off a future in which food service robots work hand in hand to deliver a meal to […]
Massimo de Marco on Why Piestro Decided to Build a Back-of-House Pizza Robot
This week, Piestro CEO Massimo de Marco announced on Linkedin that his company Piestro is building a back-of-house pizza robot for restaurants. After seeing the news, I decided to catch […]
Xook Raises $1.3 Million to Roll Out Robotic ‘Food Courts in a Box’ in The US
If you’ve ever visited a cafeteria at a tech giant like Google or Facebook, you probably found that the food is just as tasty (or tastier) and often better for […]
Basil Street Pizza Taking Final Bids For Assets to Pizza Robot Business
Back in mid-April, The Spoon first started getting tips that Basil Street Pizza was looking for a buyer. When we emailed the maker of automated pizza-making kiosks, the auto-responder we […]
Smoothie Robot Blendid Joins The Equity Crowdfunding Crowd With $2 Million Raise
Blendid, the maker of smoothie-making robots, announced today it had raised $2 million via crowdfunding platform StartEngine. According to the announcement sent to The Spoon, the raise brings the company’s […]
Fraîche’s Smart Fridges Aim to Help NYC Offices Freshen Up Lunch Options
One of the big questions companies face as more of the population gets vaccinated is if and how they will re-open their physical offices. As Bloomberg wrote last month, some […]
Kellogg’s Bowl Bot Cereal Robot, Based on Chowbotics Tech, Debuts at Two Universities
Kellogg’s Away From Home, a division of the CPG giant that works with foodservice operators, announced a joint pilot program with Chowbotics (now a division of DoorDash) that just debuted […]
Bellwether’s Coffee Roaster Blossomed During the Pandemic, Doubling Installations
Independent coffee shops were hit hard by the pandemic last year. In October, Euromonitor International predicted that the U.S. would have just 25,307 coffee/tea specialty outlets by the end of […]
Piestro Adds Pay-With-Your Face Tech and Cubbies for Pickup
Robotic pizza vending startup Piestro announced today that it has partnered with PopID to integrate pay-with-your face technology into Piestro’s machines. The integration of PopID’s technology will provide Piestro customers […]
Should Food Robot Startups Build Their Own Food Brand or Borrow One (or Do Both)?
One question I ask food robot companies, especially the startups that build meal-making robots, is whether they are a food company or a technology company. The answer to that question […]
Video: Chowbotics’ Sally Makes Salads at Coborn’s Marketplace
As you are well aware, the way we get our food has undergone dramatic changes during this pandemic. One of the more visible changes we’ve seen is the removal of […]
