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Three Days of Food Innovation & Discovery in Tokyo: Scenes From SKS Japan 2024
In January of 2017, little did I know that a chance meeting in the Venetian in Las Vegas would eventually lead to the creation of Japan’s most influential and well-attended […]
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GFI: Fermentation Fuels Q3 2024 Alt-Protein Investments, While Cultivated Meat Lags
This week, the Good Food Institute released its quarterly alt-protein investment update, so I thought it’d be a good time to check in and see which way things are trending. […]
Operations
Ome CEO Akshita Iyer Talks Second-Generation Smart Stove Knob
Last month, smart kitchen startup Ome launched its second generation smart knob, a retrofit device that gives gas or electric stoves the ability to be turned off remotely. The new […]
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Serve Robotics Partners With Drone Delivery Specialist Wing To Pair Sidewalk With Aerial Delivery
Serve Robotics Inc. and Wing Aviation announced a pilot program this week that will combine their delivery methods to extend the reach of restaurant deliveries across densely populated urban areas. […]
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Food AI Bulletin: Google’s Robot Breakthrough & Wendy’s Spanish-Speaking AI Drive-Thru Bot
While it’s mid-summer, and while most of Europe (and a good chunk of the American workforce) is taking some well-deserved time off, the AI news hasn’t slowed down one bit. […]
Technology
Food Tech News Show: Blackbird Launches Pay, DoorDash Delivers Big Numbers
This week on the Food Tech News Show, we are joined by Kristen Hawley, long-time restaurant tech journalist who writes for Fast Company, Eater and her own site, Expedite. Blackbird […]
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Smart Kitchen Roundup: Suvie Adds Air Fry to Cooking Robot, Combustion Launches ‘MeatNet Cloud’
It’s been a quiet summer in the world of kitchen tech, but over the past week, some interesting news has dropped. Here’s a roundup of the stories from this past […]
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Blackbird Launches Blackbird Pay, a Blockchain-Powered Payment Network
Today Blackbird, a restaurant loyalty startup founded by former Resy and Eater founder Ben Leventhal, announced the launch of Blackbird Pay, a new restaurant payment network. Powered by the company’s […]
Operations
VDC Rolls Out Linked Eats, a ‘Value Layer’ Software That Optimizes Virtual Restaurant Operations
It’s no secret that the virtual restaurant space has struggled over the past few years. Longtime operators like Reef, Kitchen United, and NextBite have laid off employees, shut down locations, […]
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A Look at the Vayu One Delivery Robot, Which Navigates Bike Lanes to Deliver Your Food
Ever since the founders of Skype launched Starship over eight years ago, we’ve seen an explosion of small-footprint delivery robots that navigate sidewalks to deliver their payloads to consumers. While […]
Technology
The Food Tech News Show: Food Tech Funding Down in 1H 2024
The Spoon has launched a new podcast! As listeners of the Spoon Podcast know, it’s been both a long-form interview show and a news show. Since those who listen to […]
Technology
Food AI Weekly Bulletin: Is AI-Washing a Problem For Food Tech?
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Food AI Weekly Bulletin, our weekly wrapup that highlights important happenings at the intersection of AI and food. If you’d like to sign […]
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Chef Robotics Comes Out of Stealth to Show Off Robot and Reveal Early Customers
This week, Chef Robotics, the San Francisco-based food robotics startup founded by Rajat Bhageria, stepped out of stealth mode and into the spotlight by unveiling its robot and disclosing some […]
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The Food AI Weekly Bulletin: Will AI Fakery Make Restaurant Reviews a Thing of the Past?
Welcome to the Food AI Weekly Bulletin, our new weekly wrapup that highlights important happenings at the intersection of AI and food. Nowadays, there’s a lot of noise around how […]
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MOTO Pizza’s Lee Kindell Talks Drone Delivery and Humanoid Robots
Last week at SKS, we had a chance to sit down for an interview with MOTO founder Lee Kindell. Anyone who’s spent time with Lee knows he’s an enthusiastic proponent […]
Technology
Podcast: The Smart Kitchen Summit Recap
Last week, The Spoon and almost three hundred of our closest friends spent an eventful couple of days in Seattle, talking about how technology is transforming the consumer meal journey. […]
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Scenes from Smart Kitchen Summit 2024
The Smart Kitchen Summit wrapped up this week, and boy, did we have a great time discussing how new technologies will drive the next wave of cooking and kitchen innovation! […]
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A Decade Before The ChatGPT Recipe Craze, a Cooking Show Champ Helped IBM Train Chef Watson
By now, most everyone has tried their hand at prompt engineering ChatGPT or another LLM to create a decent recipe. But a decade and a half ago, well before the […]
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Tovala’s Keeley Kabala: Success in Smart Kitchen Requires Listening to Your Customers
Back in 2016, an early-stage startup called Tovala appeared in just the second Smart Kitchen Summit Startup Showcase. Company CEO David Rabie showed off the first-gen oven and discussed the […]
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We Used CloudChef’s Cooking Guidance System to Cook Like a Chef
Earlier this month, we visited Google in Chicago, where we got a chance to put the Cloudchef cooking guidance system through its paces. For those not familiar with Cloudchef, the […]
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