Somehow, I have found myself on the apiary beat here at The Spoon. This despite my turning into a flailing, cowering wildman at the sight (or buzz) of one. Regardless of my grade school-level fear of ...

When Zume first came on the scene, a lot of people got hooked on its pizza-making robot. But what was always more intriguing to us here at The Spoon was Zume as a data and logistics platform. Zume ...

Brazil-based food delivery service iFood announced this week it had purchased a controlling stake in Colombian service Domicilios.com, according to TechCrunch. The deal gives iFood a 51 percent equity ...

One of the most famous songs from the old musical 70, Girls, 70 is a song called “Coffee in a Cardboard Cup,” where one character decries the use of to-go cups: “The trouble with the world today/It’s ...

Appliance giant Whirlpool has let its entire Yummly team go. According to industry sources, the company recently laid off all the employees for the recipe and cooking app and website. These sources ...

When most people talk about food waste, they’re usually referring to the food we throw into the garbage or food waste bin, whether that’s a wilting head of lettuce or a bruised banana. But what about ...

Another robot pizza startup has shut down. According to an email sent to The Spoon, the Paris-based startup had seen its assets liquidated by a French court. The company, which had attempted to find a ...

Earlier this month at IFA, Midea showed off a range of new smart kitchen gear, including a new refrigerator lineup that features a smart clip system to keep track of food expiration dates. The smart ...

If you’re like me, you’ve probably bought a beaded ice cream at your local ballpark or fairgrounds during the dog days of summer. You know the kind, that ice cream that comes in tiny cryogenically ...

Since the early 1900s, the entertainment industry has been attempting to pair the experience of smell with video entertainment. In 1916, the Rivoli Theater in New York City introduced scents into the ...

Last week, Sweetgreen opened the company’s first robotic restaurant in Naperville, Ill, a suburb of Chicago. The new automated restaurant, which the company calls Infinite Kitchen, comes almost two ...

For the past half-decade, former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has been endeavoring to reimagine how restaurants operate by building a nationwide network of ghost kitchens under a business called ...