Inspired by 1960s Los Angeles, west~bourne is an accidentally vegetarian, all-day café with a social mission. A portion of every purchase made at its SoHo location benefits the p[...]
Every week we track the business, tech and investment trends in CPG, retail, restaurants, agriculture, cooking and health, so you don’t have to. Here are some of the latest headlin[...]
Learn how to improve restaurant marketing and operations from industry veterans in our Restaurant Startup Bootcamp. Apply now for a free spot from ShopKeep.[...]
From post-grads to grandmas, diners are getting on board with tableside technologies. In the US alone, mobile payment transactions are projected to reach a whopping $1.3 trillion b[...]
Increasing deal activity and deal sizes in the food tech and food media space resulted in $1.6 billion of investment in 2013, and $2.8b over two years[...]
One theme that dominated food tech startup news throughout the month was the notion of same-day delivery and solving the problem of the last mile.[...]
This monthly column highlights the most interesting acquisitions, financings and partnerships within the Food Tech & Media ecosystem – digital content, social, local, mob[...]
From payments to ordering to engagement, the restaurant industry is seeing its fair share of food tech innovation. Much of the innovation seems to be targeted towards large chains [...]
The hunt for real world applications for Google Glass, Google’s new wearable computer that promises to revolutionize how we access information and document the world around u[...]
Food delivery startups dominated the news in April. Read about the most interesting funding, M&A and partnership deals in the food tech media space. [...]
Food Genius' business model has evolved, helping them land $1.2 million in funding and a partnership with GrubHub to launch Food Genius Reports, a restaurant trends dashboard for [...]
Locu is a local-data company that began by helping restaurants digitize and share their menus. With its new API, it has a chance to become the backbone of applications that help us[...]
Nutritionix is building a suite of tools that allow restaurants and food brands to organize and publish their nutritional data, thereby making it easier for consumers to interact w[...]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter of New York released the results from a survey of over 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the[...]
“The Story of Sushi” is an enlightening tale of sushi's journey from sea-to-plate. Created as a marketing video for Bamboo Sushi, a sustainable sushi restaurant in Portland, Oregon[...]
‘Standards’ and ‘interoperability’ are fast becoming restaurant industry buzz words, at least from the tech side. Restaurants still largely operate in a ve[...]
"What do I want to eat?" In the era of the Web, where everyone is an expert, this seemingly simple question is becoming increasingly more difficult to answer. How do we sift throug[...]
Panelists from Seamless Web, AllMenus.com, Ordr.in, Clean Plates & Plovgh discussed their current projects using restaurant, menu, ingredient, food source, and nutritional data dur[...]
Meet Jonathan Shapiro, Founder of the recently launched Grubster, a new iPhone application and website that allows you to search for recommendations on specific dishes at a restaur[...]