One of the more frustrating elements that crops up in bad restaurant experiences is noise.

It was estimated at one point that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ate upwards of 821 pounds of cod per year. He's certainly an outlier, but as global demands for seafood increase, fish farms are rising to meet that challenge, with the aquaculture market projected to reach $219.42 billion by 2022. Already, half the seafood eaten in the U.S. is farmed, and a startup called Aquabyte is using machine learning and computer vision to make those farms more efficient and productive.

There is a milk glut in the U.S.. Technology has allowed dairy farmers to produce more milk than ever, but all this abundance has caused milk prices to plummet. It's getting so bad that some farmers face selling off their cows. While technology helped create this crisis, perhaps SomaDetect's technology can help struggling dairy farmers get out of it.

Amazon and Whole Foods today announced that they are rolling out two-hour delivery, in a move that ratchets up the ongoing retailer battle royale over who can get you your groceries fastest.

Today PicoBrew teased the release of a new beer brewing appliance called the PicoBrew Z.

When you talk with startups trying to combat food waste, you hear a common refrain: you can't get to absolute zero-there will always be some waste in the system. While we may never hit zero food waste, Copia is a software company fighting to get as close to that as possible through a combination of prevention and recovery.

We have banned the headline "X company hopes to become the Keurig for Y" here at The Spoon. But perhaps we should make an exception since it could literally be applied to today's news that Keurig Green Mountain plans to buy Dr Pepper Snapple Group in a deal valued at $18.7 billion. Will the addition of Dr Pepper make Keurig the, uhhh, Keurig of sodas?

Spoiler alert! The enterprise software startup, Spoiler Alert, works to help large food manufacturers, distributors and grocery distribution centers better manage their inventory to help reduce food waste and recoup potentially lost revenue.

Companies that make electronic programming guides have figured out six ways from Sunday to optimize recommendations for what your next binge-watched TV show should be. But what if your TV could recommend shows based on the smell of pizza or curry wafting through the living room?

There was a strong ethos of community when startups like Lyft and Airbnb helped kickstart the "sharing economy." Lyft had passengers sit in the front seat and fistbump their drivers, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky once remarked that his company was "in the business of meaningful experiences." But it looks like the kumbayah days of simply renting your spare room or backseat for some extra cashe are giving way to the capitalist world we are all familiar with. One where in addition to paying for your space, guests and passengers pony up for snacks, treats and other sundries.