It has been almost a decade since we at The Spoon began covering efforts to establish a wireless power standard for the kitchen. Our coverage started when the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) releas…
The Canadian food and agtech ecosystem is experiencing significant growth, according to a new report published today by the Canadian Food Innovation Network. The report, which dives deep into speci…
An interesting set of stories came out over the past week, which showed how two retail giants are leveraging technology to help consumers get out of the store faster. One one hand, you have Amazon …
Last month in Las Vegas, we sat down with one of our favorite restaurateurs, Lee Kindell of MOTO Pizza, to discuss his vision for the future of restaurants. Lee was in town to speak onstage at CES …
What if the food system could be a climate solution instead of a climate problem? That’s the question Eva Goulbourne explores with Renée Vassilos, Director of Agriculture Innovation at The Nature C…
Today, food recycler startup Mill disclosed (via Axios, scoop by my ex-Gigaom colleague Katie Fehrenbacher) that it has reached $20 million in trailing 12-month revenue. It also announced it is lau…
Workplace-focused chef-catering platform HUNGRY has acquired Garten, a wellness-focused caterer and corporate food provider, The Spoon has learned. According to an email sent to The Spoon, the acqu…
Back in the early days of the cloud computing revolution, my former employer, GigaOM, hosted perhaps the biggest and most influential conference on the topic called STRUCTURE. One of the phrases th…
While most companies across the food value chain are embracing AI in some form, one major player that’s been notably quiet is Starbucks. From mobile ordering to Web3 experiments, and computer visio…
In 2018, when I saw a company called Silo launch a crowdfunding campaign for a modern food storage system – essentially Tupperware for the digital age – I couldn’t resist. I pulled out …
While some companies like NotCo have positioned themselves as the OpenAI of the food world, the truth is that the AI transformation of the food industry is still in the first inning. That is partly…
