Tag: in-store retail & restaurant tech

Future Food: Who’s responsible for obesity? And when Futurist Jack Bobo is pro-tradition

November 7, 2019

"I'm very optimistic and excited about what the world will look like in 2050 but I think it is helpful though to think about where we've come from in order to think about where we're going."

Tesco invests in frictionless checkout startup Trigo

October 17, 2019

Trigo’s technology uses computer vision and AI to see what shoppers put in their carts, charging their accounts when they walk out the door. Tesco invested just after its Series A round.

UPDATE: Food allergy detection startup allerguard raises $1.5m post-seed round

October 9, 2019

Are you an allergy sufferer and in need of peace of mind? Israeli startup allerguard could help out. It just got $1.5m in backing for its detection tech.

Trigo Vision raises $22m Series A for the checkout-free future of grocery

September 16, 2019

The Israeli computer vision company uses AI to track the items shoppers place in their cart for a frictionless checkout experience.

As Minneapolis tries to ban drive-thrus, McDonald’s tries to automate them

September 12, 2019

Using different languages to order your food could soon become a moot point at McDonald’s drive-thrus, with the company's acquisition of Apprente — a two-year-old startup that's been making impressive strides in voice recognition software.

Founder of abillionveg, the ‘Yelp for Vegans,’ says APAC is where the money’s at

August 28, 2019

The Yelp for vegans is here. And it has $2.6m in its pocket. abillionveg is on a mission to capture $1bn in animal welfare causes and one billion users.

Silicon Valley is bullish about food delivery robots, but cities and consumers aren’t 100% sold…yet

August 20, 2019

Robotics startup Starship Technologies closed a $40 million venture round for its cooler-sized delivery robots but some cities are cracking down on autonomous robot testing amid consumer safety concerns.

Do consumers actually want restaurant tech?

August 20, 2019

A new study exploring consumer attitudes towards restaurant technology revealed that some see it as a quick marketing gig while others expect restaurants to adopt new digital tools.

Eatsa is dead; long live Brightloom! (And its leading robotic retail & software as a service)

August 1, 2019

There was something of a Mark Twain twang about investigating the curious disappearance of Eatsa, a partly-automated healthy fast-food chain where robots rustled up nutritious bowls of quinoa, writes Richard Martyn-Hemphill

Robo-Made Octopus Balls Are Go! Japan’s Connected Robotics Raises $7.8m Series A

July 11, 2019

Japan’s Connected Robotics first made waves in Tokyo’s food tech space with its ballsy launch of OctoChef, a robot that serves hot octopus balls, and now it's adding to its portfolio with an ice cream-making bear, and breakfast in bed robot.

Agri-FoodTech News in Europe: $178m in Venture Funding this Week

June 27, 2019

Catch up on the latest funding activity for European foodtech and agtech startups.

At Cafe X, Robot Baristas are Grinding Down the Competition

April 29, 2019

Cafe X, a runner-up in the recent AgriFood Innovation Awards, remained tight-lipped about where it plans to open new cafes but is focusing on research & development to stay ahead of the competition.

Top 20 Retail & Restaurant Tech Startups in 2018

April 10, 2019

Retail and restaurant tech is a category of agrifood tech startups encompassing technologies and services aimed at making retail food businesses more profitable as well as improving shopper experience at the supermarket, in restaurants and other brick & mortar stores.

Can Restaurant Tech Help Industry Compete with Food E-Commerce? POS Startup Toast Says Yes.

April 3, 2019

With food delivery startups becoming more popular than ever, restaurants are turning to technologies like food-focused POS systems to keep pace with the rapidly rising digital tide.

Washington State’s Plastic Waste Legislation Presents Opportunity for Packaging Alternative Startups

February 25, 2019

Washington State lawmakers are considering a hardline measure that would force companies to take responsibility for plastic waste or forgo using it at all.

Founder of Agtech’s First Unicorn David Friedberg Reveals Investment Portfolio of The Production Board

February 21, 2019

You may have seen The Production Board crop up on a few agrifood tech investments, but there's little publicly-available information about the investment holding company founded by David Friedberg. Until now.

Restaurants Can Earn $7 for Every $1 They Invest in Fighting Food Waste – new report

February 13, 2019

The US restaurant industry alone is responsible for more than 11 million tons of food waste each year, or $25 billion worth of food, and Valentine's Day is one of the industry's biggest nights of the year.

Coca-Cola Leads $10m Series A for Restaurant Data Tech Startup

December 19, 2018

Omnivore offers a universal point-of-sale connectivity platform that allows hundreds of third-party technologies to integrate seamlessly. It calls itself the "industry standard for POS integration."

A European View: Real Potential at Startupbootcamp FoodTech Demo Day in Paris

December 4, 2018

We’re talking early stage, but there was real quality in the room, writes Johan Jorgensen from Sweden FoodTech.

Mimica is Creating Alternative Food Labels for Consumers to Feel When Food Has Expired

October 24, 2018

Solveiga Pakštaitė is founder and director of Mimica, a food labeling technology startup that recently won the People’s Choice Award at Rabobank’s startup pitch event FoodBytes! in London. We caught up with her to find out more about how she created the technology and how it will be deployed.