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Meet the SKS 2024 Startup Showcase Finalists
Ever since we launched the Smart Kitchen Summit {SKS} in 2015, one of the most popular parts of the conference is the Startup Showcase, where attendees get a glimpse at […]
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The Story of Chefee with Assaf Pashut
There’s been no shortage of cooking robot startups in the past few years, but most are focused on commercial kitchens. It’s for good reason: consumers tend to like appliances we’re […]
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Waring and Planit Protein Debut Fermentation Appliance for Chefs to Create Plant-Based Proteins
This week at the National Restaurant Show, commercial equipment provider Waring and Planit Protein debuted a new commercial fermentation system to create plant-based proteins in commercial kitchens. The new system, […]
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Halla’s Spencer Price: Grocers Will Create ‘Unique Grocery Store for Every Shopper’ in The Future
Next up in our Smart Kitchen Summit speaker preview series is Spencer Price, the founder of Halla. Halla has built an AI personalization and recommendation platform for grocery store providers. According […]
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SKS 2024 Preview: Clayton Wood Talks The Current State of Food Robotics
We’re just one month away from the Smart Kitchen Summit, so we’re going to be checking and hearing from some of our speakers. First up is Clayton Wood, a long-time […]
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Why GFA’s Unceremonious Drop of Climax is a Big Win For the Company & the Plant-Based Cheese Category
For the past week, the alt-protein world has been abuzz about the news that the Good Food Awards had quietly dropped Climax Food from the list of finalists and, according […]
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‘Amazon for Proteins’: Shiru Launches AI-Powered Marketplace for Proteins
Shiru, a company that utilizes AI to discover plant-based novel proteins, has announced a new marketplace in ProteinDiscovery.ai that lets anyone search, discover, pilot, and buy molecules for food, agriculture, […]
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Pipedream Raises $13M as It Looks to Build Underground Middle Mile Delivery Network
Underground delivery startup Pipedream Labs announced it has raised $13 million in funding. Company CEO Garrett McCurrach disclosed the funding, led by Starship Ventures, with participation from Cortado Ventures, Myelin […]
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The Food Tech News Show: A Look at Our Food Lives in The Year 2055
Welcome to the Food Tech News Show! You can watch the show live here at 1 Pacific/4 Eastern or on Streamyard, YouTube, or LinkedIn. This week Mike and Carlos be […]
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Report: Diners Opting for Restaurant-Specific Apps & Kiosks While Deemphasizing 3rd-Party Delivery
A new report published by Tillster shows that quick-service restaurant customers are increasingly opting to use restaurant-specific apps over 3rd party delivery apps. The report, which analyzed the results of […]
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Restaurant Cashier Zooms In to Work, Press Freaks Out. Better Get Ready for Lots More Change at Checkout
This week, a raft of news stories about an encounter with a cashier manning the checkout remotely from a distant location went viral. Dozens of shock-take articles proliferated after a […]
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Big Tech Set Its Sights on Reinventing Checkout. Consumers Said ‘Not So Fast’
When it comes to technology and grocery shopping, one primary focus for grocery chains and technology providers in recent years has been the checkout experience. Amazon and various other technology […]
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The Food Tech News Show: Apple’s Building Home Robots!
Join us at 1 PM Pacific where we’ll be talking about the food tech stories of the week! This week, we’ll be joined by Scott Heimendinger, former founder of Sansaire […]
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Food Tech Weekly: AI’s Impact on Food Accelerating, Whirlpool Lays Off Yummly Team
This is the online version of The Spoon Newsletter. You can subscribe to The Spoon and get deliver director to your inbox. Over the past month, we’ve seen more and […]
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Weekly Food Tech News Show: Wither Magic Spoon?
On this week’s Food Tech News Show, Mike and Carlos welcome Rachel Konrad, former head of communications for The Production Board, Impossible Foods and Tesla. The stories we catch up […]
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Podcast: The Story of Mill With Matt Rogers
If you follow the world of kitchen and consumer food tech startups, you know there hasn’t been much in the way of venture-funded startups targeting food waste in the home. […]
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Pitchbook: Food Tech Funding Dropped Almost 60% in 2023
The food tech sector navigated rough waters in 2023, as venture capital funding experienced a significant downturn for the second consecutive year. According to Pitchbook’s Q4 2023 report, food tech […]
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The Food Tech News Show: Behold, The Humanoid Kitchen Robot is Here
This week, the Spoon crew got together to discuss some of the big stories of the week on a new weekly video news show we’re launching called The Food Tech […]
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Watch The Figure 01 Robot Feed A Human, Sort The Dishes, And Stammer Like Us Meatbags
While much of the startup funding for food-centric robots has been for task-specific fast-automation from the likes of Picnic Robot and Chef Robotics, some of the more intriguing – and […]
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Why a Small Startup in the Middle of Valencia May Be Leading the Wireless Energy & Invisible Cooktop Trend
About a decade ago, IKEA famously released a concept video laying out its vision for the kitchen of the future. The central concept for their envisioned future kitchen was a […]
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