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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...
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.
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...
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.
Podcast: Why Are CPG Brands Freaking Out About Ozempic?
On this week’s Spoon Podcast, SuperGut CEO Marc Washington joins me to talk about why new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy keep CPG brand CEOs up at night. These new drugs, which got their start as a new class of pharmaceuticals that help control type 2 diabetes, have become very popular in recent years as weight loss miracle drug. They are hugely effective in suppressing appetites and reducing the overall calorie intake of those taking them, so much so that some speculate that they could have a significant impact on the overall demand for food if, as predicted, tens of millions begin to take them in coming years as prices come down and they become available in more accessible formats.
Cafe X’s Robot Barista is Now Slinging Coffee in Tesla’s Berlin Giga Factory
This week, Cafe X CEO Henry Hu retweeted Elon Musk, who had tweeted out a video showcasing a flythrough video of Giga Berlin. The reason? Tesla’s newest Giga Factory serves coffee and tea using one of Hu’s robotic coffee shops. While the robot barista’s arms are painted red...
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