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Supper at Home Hopes to Provide Recipe for Home Chefs to Build Businesses from Their Kitchens
For more than a decade, startups have built online marketplaces in hopes of turning home kitchens into legitimate food businesses. Unfortunately, for most of that time, while demand existed, the […]
Markets
CookUnity Partners With Airbnb to Bring Chef-Created Meals to the Short Term Rental Market
For much of the past decade, CookUnity has operated as a subscription-based prepared meal service built around a network of professional chefs. This week, the company made its first major […]
Technology
Why Subtle Tech and Countertop Appliances, Not Robots, Are Driving Kitchen Innovation
For much of the past couple of decades, talk of the future kitchen at CES has conjured tech-forward images of robotic arms sautéing vegetables, humanoids flipping burgers, and, more recently, […]
Operations
Gambit Robotics Hopes to Usher In a New Era of Guided Cooking Without Robots (Yet)
Coming out of CES earlier this month, you might think a new kitchen assistant from a startup called Gambit Robotics would look something like the dozens of humanoid robots roaming […]
Markets
Hold The Humanoids: Why a Couple Robot Experts & a TV Chef Think The Humanoid Takeover of Food May Never Materialize
Ten years from now, CES 2026 may be remembered as the year robots took over the show floor. Humanoids folded clothing, boxed items, played games, and talked like product marketing […]
Operations
Behind The Scenes at Good Housekeeping With Nicole Papantoniou
Last month I was in New York City, so I decided to drop and visit the Good Housekeeping Institute. I went to visit Nicole Papantoniou, the director of the Kitchen […]
Markets
DoorDash Rolls Out Delivery Robot and an AI- Powered Delivery Orchestration Platform
There’s a new delivery robot in town, and its name is Dot. DoorDash announced the new delivery bot today, confirming months of rumors that they were working on their own […]
Operations
Scott Heimendinger Wants to Reinvent a Two Million Year Old Kitchen Tool by Making it Vibrate (Really Fast)
If you were to bet on what the oldest kitchen tool in existence is, you’d be smart to put your money on the knife. It’s not just centuries old but […]
Technology
Fresco Partners Up With E.G.O. to Accelerate Smart Kitchen Software
As a former semiconductor analyst, I realized one truism of the tech world: makers of component building blocks for any hardware product eventually move up the stack, integrating with software […]
Markets
How Companies Big and Small are Fighting to Save Chocolate From Climate-Driven Extinction
Sure, food prices are going up everywhere, but as my fellow chocolate lovers know, prices for this universally loved treat are really going up due to the increasing threat from […]
Growth
As Robot Delivery Grows, Buildings May Have “USB Ports” to Enable Seamless Delivery Handoff
With this week’s news that Little Caesars pizza is partnering with Serve to deliver pizza, it’s clear that robotic delivery, whether on sidewalks, underground, or in the air, is fast […]
Operations
From AI as Health Advisor to Leaving Shark Tank, Here Are 5 Takeaways From My Conversation With Mark Cuban
Last week, I sat down with Mark Cuban at the Smart Kitchen Summit to talk about how he sees AI changing innovation and medicine, his motivation for starting Cost Plus […]
People
This Culinary Tech Inventor Thought He Could Build Some Parts For His Latest Gadget in the US. Then He Called Around.
When kitchen tech inventor Scott Heimendinger started prototyping his latest hardware product, he knew that much of it would need to be built overseas. Still, he was curious whether he […]
Markets
Leanpath CEO: The Fight Against Food Waste Enters Its ‘Second Act’
At this year’s ReFED Summit in Seattle, Andrew Shakman was in a reflective mood. When asked about the state of the food waste reduction movement, the Leanpath CEO, who has […]
Markets
The Grocery Store is the Food System
For most of us, the food system isn’t a distant farm or a produce distribution center. It’s the grocery store. We push carts through brightly lit aisles where abstract forces—supply […]
Markets
What Flavor Unlocks
Sustainable, healthy foods won’t win through guilt trips alone—they need to be irresistible. Flavor is the most powerful force in our food system. Not nutrition labels, not health claims, not […]
Technology
Tasting Cultivated Seafood in London’s East-end
In London’s East End, a food revolution is bubbling – a high-tech movement promising to change our way of life. Although still in its infancy, with significant early-stage obstacles to […]
Markets
Brian Canlis on Leaving an Iconic Restaurant Behind to Start Over in Nashville With Will Guidara
Brian Canlis didn’t expect to be in the restaurant business his whole life. But as with so many family businesses – especially hugely successful ones like Canlis, which single-handedly put […]
Technology
Food Waste Gadgets Can’t Get VC Love, But Kickstarter Backers Are All In
It’s a mystery (kinda). While traditional venture and strategic capital haven’t shown much enthusiasm for backing food waste-fighting technology, the category is thriving on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Two current campaigns, […]
Markets
Report: Restaurant Tech Funding Drops to $1.3B in 2024, But AI & Automation Provide Glimmer of Hope
After a multi-year boom fueled by the rise of delivery apps and the broader digital transformation of the restaurant industry, venture capital flowing into restaurant tech has sharply slowed, according […]
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