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The CES 2024 Food Tech Exhibit Walk-Around Guide
Welcome to the CES 2024 Food Tech Walk-Around Guide!. If you’re at CES (or even if you’re not) and want to check out all the cool new food tech products on display this week, this is your go-to guide. Not only have we scoured the CES exhibitor guide,...
CES 2024: Sevvy Smart Cooker Cooks Food By Sending Electric Currents Through Food
I don’t know about you, but when I bake anything, we’re talking about 25-30 minutes in an oven. But if you’re using a new technology debuting at CES from a startup called Sevvy, that time drops to just four minutes. How does it work? According to the...
Watch The ColdSnap Countertop Ice Cream Appliance In Action at CES 2024
It goes without saying that everyone likes ice cream, and that was never more apparent than at last night’s CES Unveiled press event. The first thing I saw when I walked into the crowded room was a huge crowd of journalists lining up to get a serving of ice cream (another truism is journalists like free food). The ColdSnap machines were cranking away as ColdSnap workers – including ColdSnap CEO Matthew Fonte – handed over cups to attendees.
ChefPaw to Show Off Home Pet Food Maker at CES 2024
While most kitchen tech gadgets at CES this week are for preparing sustenance for two-legged creatures, ChefPaw is explicitly designed to create homemade food for our furry friends. ChefPaw, which is a creation from the founders of pet health products company Innovet, is essentially something akin to a Thermomix for...
GreenSwapp Shows Off Tech to Display Carbon Impact Data on Retail Shelf Price Labels at CES 2024
Imagine walking down a shopping aisle, where alongside the price of each product is a score indicating its carbon impact. That’s the world that Dutch startup GreenSwapp hopes to usher in beginning next week at CES, where it will show how its AI-powered product carbon tracker works with electronic shelf labels and Point Of Sale (POS) systems.
CES 2024: Revolution Unveils the Macrowave, a Smart Oven That Combines Infrared & Microwave Heating
Revolution Cooking, a startup best known for its high-end touchscreen toaster, is showing it’s not a one-trick pony next week at CES with the reveal of its newest appliance, the Macrowave. According to Revolution, the Macrowave is a smart oven that combines the same patented InstaGLO infrared heating technology...
Where Food Comes From Acquires Upcycled Certification Program From Upcycled Food Association
Third-party verifier of food production practices Where Food Comes From, Inc. (WFCF) announced today it had acquired the Upcycled Certified Program from the Upcycled Food Association. The Upcycled Food Association launched its certification program in early 2021, becoming, at the time, the first certification program for the nascent upcycled food...
Yo-Kai to Debut Boba Making Robot at CES 2024
In less than two weeks, Yo-Kai Express, a company that’s become synonymous with hot ramen-making robots, will show it has a sweet side with the debut of a boba-making robot at CES in Las Vegas. Yo-Kai CEO Andy Lin told The Spoon that the company’s new robotic boba maker...
Talking Underground Delivery With Pipedream’s Garrett McCurrach
Sounds crazy, but it’s already happening today, and Pipedream’s Garrett McCurrach thinks it just may be the future of delivery. We catch up with Garrett just over a week after they announced their first pilot in the Atlanta suburbs, where they have built a system that delivers food and other items underground for nearly a mile.
As New Zealand’s PieBot Dishes Out Meat Pies to Hungry Tradies, Founders Eye Eventual US Expansion
Like many New Zealanders, Sasha Mates left work almost every day to grab a meat pie at the local bakery. In fact, he and his coworker Vincent Wong made the trip so often that his bosses at My Auto Shop, a startup that provides an online marketplace for auto mechanics, wondered where he and his mate headed every day for lunch.
GE Appliances Partners With Kroger for Shoppable Recipes on Wi-Fi Connected Ovens
This week, GE Appliances (GEA) announced it has released a new software update that enables customers with GEA’s Wi-Fi-connected stoves to add items to their Kroger shopping carts through featured shoppable recipes on their wall ovens and slide-in ranges. According to the announcement, the new partnership, which was distributed...
Pipedream Launches First Underground Delivery Network in Atlanta
Forget drone delivery. The cool kids are taking it underground. That’s at least the vision of Pipedream, a startup building a system to enable delivery through underground pipes. The company, which is based in Austin Texas, has announced the launch of its first underground delivery network in partnership with Peachtree Corners, a smart city development in the broader Metro Atlanta region.
Smart Kitchen Summit Returns to Seattle in 2024
The Smart Kitchen Summit, the pioneering executive summit focused on the digital transformation of the consumer meal journey, is excited to announce its return in 2024. In 2024, SKS will return to its birthplace, Seattle, Washington, scheduled for June 4-5th. “I’m thrilled that SKS is making its return to Seattle...
Tech-Powered MOTO Pizza Raises $1.85M as It Eyes Drone Delivery & Expansion to California
Before the pandemic, Lee Kindell ran a travel hostel in Seattle, where he was known for the tasty pizza he served his guests. A couple years and a pandemic later, he’s running Seattle’s hottest restaurant and has just closed his first round of funding. In an interview with...
With Launch of Bowl Food Robot, Cibotica Points to Dispensing Technology and Small Footprint as Differentiators
This week, Canadian food robot startup Cibotica announced that its first food robot is fully operational in a multi-brand ‘digital food hall’ called Food Republic in Vancouver, Canada. According to the company, the fully robotic makeline named Remy can assemble up to 300 salads per hour utilizing the company’s proprietary dispensing technology.
Gene-Edited Food Startup Ohalo Emerges From Stealth as AgTech Pioneer Dave Friedberg Takes the Helm
This week, longtime food and ag tech founder and investor Dave Friedberg announced on Twitter that he has taken over the CEO role for gene-editing focused agtech startup Ohalo Genetics. Ohalo, operating under stealth for the past four years, began its life within Friedberg’s investment and startup incubator The Production Board.
Scoop: Travis Kalanick is Building Restaurant Robots With Help of Uber’s Former Head of Self-Driving Cars
For the past half-decade, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been endeavoring to reimagine how restaurants operate by building a nationwide network of ghost kitchens under a business called CloudKitchens. That business, which he and his team constructed stealthily under a holding company called City Storage Systems (CSS), was joined at the hip by another technology business called Otter, which sells restaurant order management software.
Tech-Powered Regenerative Chicken Joint ‘Mt. Joy’ Opens Second Restaurant in Seattle
This week, Seattle-based regenerative restaurant chain Mt. Joy announced it’s opening its second location in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The new location – Mt. Joy’s first brick-and-mortar location after opening a food truck this fall – will be nestled next to Seattle’s only Sweetgreen on the corner of 11th and Pine in a brick building formerly home to the Stout Brewery.
After Last Year’s Thanksgiving Disaster, I Bought a Combustion Thermometer. The Result Was Juicy, Just-Right Turkey
In 2021, I hit a Thanksgiving home run. After deciding to brine a turkey for the first time, the results were much better than expected. Guests were happy, compliments were given, and when I learned we were hosting again last year, I figured it’d be easy to replicate the juicy, delicious result.
Google Announces Winners of the Single-Use Plastics Challenge
This week, Google announced the winners of the Single-Use Plastics Challenge, an open-invitation challenge where the company invited startups to present solutions that help reduce plastic waste. The challenge, which launched this past spring, had Google testing out those products that met state and federal requirements and Google’s Food program standards in the company’s U.S.-based cafes and MicroKitchens.
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