Bear Robotics is looking for a helping hand as it seeks to strengthen its position in the food robotics space and beyond. It just got one by acquiring Kinisi Robotics, a startup that makes wheeled ...

Somehow, I have found myself on the apiary beat here at The Spoon. This despite my turning into a flailing, cowering wildman at the sight (or buzz) of one. Regardless of my grade school-level fear of ...

When Zume first came on the scene, a lot of people got hooked on its pizza-making robot. But what was always more intriguing to us here at The Spoon was Zume as a data and logistics platform. Zume ...

Brazil-based food delivery service iFood announced this week it had purchased a controlling stake in Colombian service Domicilios.com, according to TechCrunch. The deal gives iFood a 51 percent equity ...

One of the most famous songs from the old musical 70, Girls, 70 is a song called “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup,” where one character decries the use of to-go cups: “The trouble with the world today/It’s ...

Last week, Sweetgreen opened the company’s first robotic restaurant in Naperville, Ill, a suburb of Chicago. The new automated restaurant, which the company calls Infinite Kitchen, comes almost two ...

When Jake Berber started thinking seriously about the future of coffee, he wasn’t trying to convince people to stop drinking it. He was trying to figure out what happens when everyday coffee becomes ...

Food-tech company NotCo has developed a novel generative AI model, the Generative Aroma Transformer (GAT), capable of creating new flavor and fragrance formulations. The model, which the company ...

Appliance giant Whirlpool has let its entire Yummly team go. According to industry sources, the company recently laid off all the employees for the recipe and cooking app and website. These sources ...

Today Wendy’s announced it is working with Google Cloud to develop a generative AI solution for drive-thrus called Wendy’s Fresh AI. The new solution, which is powered by Google Cloud’s generative AI ...

Lab2Fab, a division of Middleby Corporation, unveiled its new PizzaBot 5000 pizza-assembling machine at the Smart Kitchen Summit today. The PizzaBot 5000 (or “PB5K” as L2F President, Shawn Lange ...

Choice Market, the Denver-based convenience store chain known for blending a focus on fresh and high-quality food with a tech-forward approach to retail, has closed permanently. CEO Mike Fogarty ...