Cultivated meat companies spent much of the last decade promising to help fend off the climate crisis while also helping to wean the world off animal a. However, as the industry ...

Creator, the San Francisco restaurant made famous by its burger-making robot, was among the thousands of restaurants shut down by the pandemic (even though it engineered an awesome germ-free airlock ...

In collaboration between TechTable and Vita Vera Ventures, we are pleased to share an updated 2023 Restaurant Tech Ecosystem map. We all saw that the pandemic brought a wave of experimentation in the ...

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 robot. The robot, developed ...

Instant Brands, the parent company behind the Instant Pot, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today, as first reported by Bloomberg. The company, which also owns the Pyrex glassware brand, announced ...

Welcome to The Spoon’s CES 2025 Food Tech Exhibitor Preview! We’ve scoured through the exhibitor guide and press releases to find some of the products that will be on display at CES 2025 that may ...

Zach Rash wanted to be a professional surfer. So much so, that in high school, there was more surfing than academics. That all changed when Rash reached UCLA and met Brad Squicciarini. It wasn’t long ...

Plastic spoons are a major contributor to single-use plastic waste, and Planeteer is dedicated to providing one solution to this. Winner of last year’s SKS Future Food Award, Planeteer produces ...

Hankering for some Chili’s but don’t want to jump in your car? It might not be long before that grilled chicken and bowl of chili arrive at your front door via sidewalk robot. That’s because Chili’s ...

Grabango, a grocery-tech startup that raised over $93 million for its cashierless checkout technology, is shutting down, The Spoon has learned. The closure follows the company’s inability to secure ...

Last year, when news got out that Slim Jim had gone and registered the term meataverse, we all had a good laugh. Over a year later and a few notches down the Gartner Hype Cycle, the salty meat stick ...

This month, Pizza Hut debuted a fully automated robot-powered restaurant. The ‘restaurant-in-a-box’ is based on technology from Hyper-Robotics, an Israel-based food robotics startup that makes ...