The Spoon Podcast Network is the first podcast collective focused on exploring the reimagination of the food, health, and nutrition industries and how innovation is changing everyday living. Our hosts ...

Cana, the company which was building an appliance that they claimed could create and customize virtually any beverage, shut down last week, The Spoon has learned. According to numerous Linkedin posts ...

PicoBrew, the homebrewing appliance startup based in Seattle, is effectively shutting down the Spoon has learned today. Back in February, the Spoon broke the story about PicoBrew entering the ...

More than 80 percent of restaurant jobs, including cooking, serving and prepping, could be potentially be taken over by automation, according to restaurant consulting firm Aaron Allen & Associates.

When most people talk about food waste, they’re usually referring to the food we throw into the garbage or food waste bin, whether that’s a wilting head of lettuce or a bruised banana. But what about ...

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 ...

For robot startups seeking to make a splash at CES, there are a few options: holding a large press conference, making it weird and creepy, or serving cocktails. However, one method stands out above ...

Since the early 1900s, the entertainment industry has been attempting to pair the experience of smell with video entertainment. In 1916, the Rivoli Theater in New York City introduced scents into the ...

Another robot pizza startup has shut down. According to an email sent to The Spoon, the Paris-based startup had seen its assets liquidated by a French court. The company, which had attempted to find a ...

Since we first heard about Perfect Day, the Silicon Valley startup making dairy without animals, we’ve been eagerly waiting to see what their first product would be. That time has finally come. Today ...

There are so many companies doing cashierless checkout now, to stand out any more, you almost need a hook, something that sets your particular solution apart from the rest. Grabango allows stores to ...

Late last week, news broke that Zume, the company famous mostly for raising a whole bunch of money for its pizza robot & cook-on-the-road food trucks concept, had shut down. The company’s demise, ...