How One Operator is Reinventing His Restaurant With Technology
[ad_1] When Andrew Simmons decided to buy a restaurant in January 2020, little did the long-time entrepreneur know that in just a few months, he would be forced to close…
Is the Retro-Styled Wonder Oven The Future of Countertop Multicookers?
[ad_1] This week, social media-savvy cookware brand Our Place dropped something entirely unexpected: a stylish 6-1 countertop multi-function cooking appliance. At first glance, I found myself having difficulty processing what…
UPSIDE Foods Nabs First-Ever USDA Label Approval for Cell-Cultivated Chicken
[ad_1] Cultivated meat company UPSIDE Foods announced today it had achieved the first-ever label approval from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its cultivated chicken product, according to…
Analyzing Instant Brands Journey to Bankruptcy
[ad_1] 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…
Talking AI & Food With Google’s Evan Rapoport
[ad_1] In this week’s podcast, we talk food and AI with Google’s Evan Rapoport. Over the past decade, Evan has led teams for Google Research, looking at how AI could…
Extracellular To Offer License-Free & Low-Cost Cell Banks for Cultivated Meat Startups in the UK
[ad_1] Today Extracellular, a cultivated meat-focused contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO), announced the availability of low-cost and license-free cell banks for research to cultivated meat developers in the UK.…
Cookware Darling Great Jones Gets Scooped Up by Meyer. Is the DTC Home Goods Wave Over?
[ad_1] This week, Fast Company broke the story that Great Jones, a popular DTC cookware maker for the millennial set, had been acquired by cookware giant Meyer. In Meyer, Great…
World’s Biggest Meat Packer JBS Building Cultivated Meat Plant Capable of 1,000 Metric Tons
[ad_1] Lab-grown meat is all grown up. This week Brazilian meat processing conglomerate JBS announced they had broken ground in Spain on its first commercial-scale cultivated meat production facility. According…
Robot Restaurant Concepts Have Struggled. Will Kernel Buck The Trend?
[ad_1] Last month, the NY Post revealed that Chipotle founder Steve Ells is plotting a comeback with an automation-heavy restaurant concept called Kernel. According to the Post, who viewed the…
Four Lessons From the Demise of Zume
[ad_1] 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…