Here at The Spoon, we’ve been following pretty much every robot restaurant concept for the past decade, and have watched dozens of company ideas and hundreds of millions of dollars come and ...

Back in 2023, when Oobli started pushing out its line of sweet teas and chocolates to gain attention for its precision-fermented sweetener, being at the intersection of protein and a healthier ...

Ever since Kevin Kelly and Gary Wolf coined the term quantified self nearly two decades ago, a whole industry has grown up around personal activity trackers to count our steps, optimize our sleep, and ...

The heyday of hardware Kickstarter may be behind us (Coolest Cooler anyone?), but occasionally, a project emerges with the right blend of a captivating promotional video, impressive specs, and promise ...

For most of its modern history, food deemed healthy came with a tradeoff: it might be good for you, but it probably wouldn’t taste very good, and it would almost certainly require discipline. Matt ...

You know that phrase “you see what you look for?” I am knee-deep in that right now. As we put together The Spoon’s first conference on food robotics and automation happening in April, I see robots ...

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 ...

For the past half-decade, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been endeavoring to reimagine how restaurants operate by building a nationwide network of ghost kitchens under a business called ...

Back in 2016, an early-stage startup called Tovala appeared in just the second Smart Kitchen Summit Startup Showcase. Company CEO David Rabie showed off the first-gen oven and discussed the vision for ...

This is the online version of our weekly newsletter. Head here to subscribe to The Spoon and get it delivered straight to your inbox For the last few years, there’s been lots of excitement about ...

Today, Amazon announced it had finally given up on the tech-forward grocery store vision it first unveiled nearly a decade ago. In a press release, the company said it would close its Amazon Go and ...