$800M Pumped into Food Tech in Sept, Apply for a Free Spot to our Restaurant Branding Bootcamp + More

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From our dive into how restaurants can use tech to improve operations and enhance the dining experience to an inside look at Whole Foods’ store of the future, these are last week’s top food tech innovation and news stories. Like what you read? Feast your eyes on the full roundup here. Or better yet, sign up for our newsletter and get the latest and greatest in food tech delivered to your inbox every week.

1. Get a FREE Scholarship to our Restaurant Branding Bootcamp

We’ve partnered with ShopKeep to give away 25 spots ($399 value) to our Restaurant Branding Bootcamp, taught by the former CMO of Danny Meyer’s Union Square Hospitality Group.

2. Food Tech Media Startup Funding, M&A and Partnerships: September 2014

Over $800m was pumped into food tech in September, with $517m in fundings & $300m in acquisitions.

3. How to Use Tech to Improve Restaurant Operations & Enhance the Dining Experience

An inside look at how startups like Culinary Agents, Sourcery and FarmersWeb are helping restaurants run their businesses better.

4. 8 Tips for Working Smarter on Your Branding & Social Media

Food Startup Branding 101 instructor Marni Kleinfield-Hayes dishes out her best practices for working smarter to create a killer brand and social media presence.

5. Uber and Foursquare Cofounders Help Launch a Dining Concierge App –VentureBeat

Reserve is kind of like a mashup of Urbanspoon, UrbanDaddy, OpenTable and Cover.

6. The Best (and Worst) Foods in Your Supermarket –Rodale News

EWG’s cutting-edge Food Scores tool helps you ID safer choices with the click of a mouse or a smartphone scan of a barcode.

7. Inside Whole Foods’ Store of the Future – Adweek

The upscale grocer has loaded up its new flagship store with digital experiences that show shoppers where their food comes from.

8. Food Tank and the James Beard Foundation Present the 2014 Good Food Org Guide – Food Tank

The first annual guide features Edible Communities, Fair Food Network, Modern Farmer and so many more!