IHOP is updating its technology stack in the wake of Covid and labor shortages, picking TRAY after a competitive process with world-leading POS providers.
Cultivate Next will invest in early-stage restaurant tech that can enhance both guest and employee experiences.
Consumer-facing downstrream technologies bagged $32 billion in VC investment in 2021; the bulk of it was thanks to a few big eGrocery deals.
The US restaurant chain has teamed up with Miso Robotics to pilot kitchen automation solution Chippy.
Funding for food waste solutions up and down the supply chain reflects the growing importance of the category for businesses, consumers, and investors alike.
Hyphen’s robotic restaurant system replaces the traditional makeline setup popularized by Chipotle and other assembly line-style concepts.
While investment in eGrocery services increased substantially, especially in China, the return of foot traffic to brick and mortar retailers and restaurants saw investment double in technologies servicing them.
A couple of weeks ago we hosted our second Future Food News Review on Clubhouse with leading journalists in foodtech, agtech and food systems globally, including Pultizer prize-winner Kim Severson. Listen to the in-depth and nuanced discussion about the week’s top news here.
A new report from EIT Food suggests that consumer trust in the food sector increased during Covid-19 – but consumers are skeptical of industry intentions.
As the restaurant industry turns to tech amid Covid-19, startups are landing investment – and have a unique opportunity to accelerate tech adoption.
One of the robo-stars of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was a slightly wacky invention from Switzerland: a robot that has been
Indian food tech unicorn Zomato is said to be closing a $600m funding round, led by Temasek and Ant Financial, matching a similar move by rival, Swiggy.
Indian cloud kitchen giant Rebel Foods has raised $125m in Series D funding from Goldman Sachs, Sequoia Capital, Gojek, and others.
Ever walked into a quick-serve restaurant only to find an anything-but-quick line that makes you turn around and walk straight back out again? Those lines may soon become a thing of the past, with the help of our latest investment, Tray.
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
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.
The category of consumer indoor farms has been slow to get funding. We caught up with Andrew Deitz to find out how he plans to grow Verdical in this nascent category.
Acquisitions in restaurant tech keep coming, HelloFresh is undeterred by Blue Apron’s disastrous IPO, new hires, new grants for Danforth, and more in this week’s brief.
Zume is one of just a few startups creating solutions for restaurants to use in-house compared with the rest of the agrifood tech sector, but could the tide by changing as high profile investors come into the space?
I’m drowning in new food! Can someone please restructure me out of this mess?