Today Bellwether Coffee announced its latest electric, ventless coffee roasting machine, The Bellwether Shop Roaster. The new roaster, which is the company’s third-generation electric roasting machine ...

SuperSmart is a chimera in the cashierless checkout world. It combines a number of technologies other cashierless checkout companies use: mobile phone barcode scanning, computer vision for product ...

For small operators (and big ones as well) in the pizza business, Andrew Simmons’s posts on Linkedin have become must-read material. That’s because Simmons, who I wrote about last year […] Research ...

McDonald’s has fired CEO Steve Easterbrook after he engaged in a consensual relationship with an unnamed employee. The board voted on Friday to remove him, according to the Wall Street […] Research ...

This week, food service giant Sodexo and plant-based 3D printing specialist SavorEat announced they will be rolling out SavorEat’s 3D printing robot at the University of Denver. The deployment of […] ...

This week, sidewalk robot delivery startup Starship Technologies celebrated the fifth anniversary of its first campus deployment in the US and, as part of its announcement, gave us a peek […] Research ...

It was a sad week at The Spoon as we said goodbye to Catherine Lamb. Catherine is heading off to Chicago to get her MBA at Kellogg University. After that […] Research guides to emerging food tech ...

AI is seemingly everywhere nowadays, so it was only a matter of time before it would show up at the backyard BBQ to help us cook the perfect steak. That’s […] Research guides to emerging food tech ...

Two phrases are getting a lot of airplay in the food industry nowadays: “artificial intelligence” and “personalized menus.” Put them together and you’re supposed to get a restaurant experience where [ ...

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 ...

A new report published by Tilster shows that quick-service restaurant customers are increasingly opting to use restaurant-specific apps over 3rd party delivery apps. The report, which analyzed the ...

This is the online version of The Spoon Newsletter. You can subscribe to The Spoon and get deliver director to your inbox. Over the past month, we’ve seen more and more signals that AI is having a ...