The Spoon Podcast

The Spoon editor team got together to talk about the great reopening of restaurants and what it looks like. We also talk about a new interoperability standard for food traceability and a cool new unitasker food prep device that's perfect for those living living in small spaces. via Knit

It's a sad day at the Spoon: Catherine Lamb is leaving us to go to graduate school! We give Catherine a bad time and wish her well and also catch up on the latest food tech news of the week. Check out this and other podcasts at www.thespoon.tech via Knit

We talk a lot about product launches here on The Food Tech Show, but this week we talk a little about our own product launch with Spoon Plus. In addition to the backstory of our new membership community, we also talk about: -PastaDrop, a pasta-as-a-service offering from the founder of Woot! -the end of buffets -the use of geofencing by Walmart and others Enjoy the podcast. You can find more at www.thespoon.tech via Knit

This week the Spoon editors got together to talk about some of the biggest stories of the week, including: -CookMagic, a textbot based recipe assistant -Can Pico-roasting help coffee shops survive the pandemic? -The all-but-certain end of PicoBrew -The Yo-Kai meal kit: Robot maker goes meal kit provider via Knit

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The Spoon editor team got together for the weekly podcast to discuss some of the top stories of the week. Here's what they discussed: -California is going to pay restaurants to make food for seniors -Food Network Kitchen on Amazon devices -Cheetah gets funding round - all of these supplier platforms going from B2B tot D2C -What's with all the chickpea protein investment? via Knit

It's a very specific cultural moment when a twitter thread about growing yeast goes viral. That's exactly what happened recently and so the Spoon editors talk about that and a few other stories on this week's edition of the Food Tech Show. Other stories discussed include how quarantine life may (or may not) have many of us putting our smart kitchen gadgets to work more and how we all felt inspired after hearing kitchen tech makers Scott Heimendinger and Larry Jordan took us into their workshops this past week to talk about their DIY tools and processes for making the next big kitchen gadget. via Knit

How has the coronavirus changed how you eat? For some of the Spoon team, it's meant more processed food. For others (i.e. Catherine), that means more cooking with fresh food. The Spoon team got together this week to talk about this and other things on our minds as we start to lose track of what day it as our stay at home orders enter their second month. As always, you can find more podcasts at www.thespoon.tech. via Knit

With most places still in lockdown, many restaurants are trying to survive by going off-premise through a combination of delivery and takeout. The Spoon's Chris Albrecht caught up with Chowly's Sterling Douglass to talk about what he's seeing out there in what is a rapidly changed restaurant landscape and to discuss strategies for going off-premise. This conversation took place as part of The Spoon's COVID-19 Virtual Strategy Summit. If you missed the summit and would like to see some of what you missed, all the sessions are now available to watch here: https://thespoon.tech/covid-19-strategy-summit-for-food-session-videos/ via Knit

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The Spoon editors got together to talk about some of the stories of people and companies stepping up to the plate during a dark time or well positioned to take advantage of rapidly changing consumer behavior. As always, you can find more Spoon podcasts and our stories at www.thespoon.tech via Knit

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The Spoon editor gang got together to discuss: -Chris uses Instacart to get his parents to stop going to the grocery store during the pandemic -The hiring surge among grocery stores and services like Instacart -The ever rotating product shortages at the store as people shift their behavior -The surge in baking on Instagram as people look for things to do and comfort themselves while sheltering in place As always, thanks for listening! via Knit