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The Spoon Podcast

Dec 23, 2022

It's almost the end of 2022 and so we decided to catch up with S2G Managing Director Tonya Bakritzes.

In this podcast we talk about:

-The impact of inflation and global macroenvironmental headwinds on the food tech landscape

-The plant-based meat sales slowdown and what it means for the space longterm. 

-Some areas to...


Dec 15, 2022

Ben Leventhal has nothing if not good timing. 

In 2004 the New York entrepreneur launched Eater at the dawn of the blogging era, back when food media was still mostly legacy publications and message boards. 

After selling Eater to Vox, he went on to launch Resy in 2014 just as restaurants were beginning to bristle at...


Dec 10, 2022

Our guest this week on our weekly food tech news wrapup is Clayton Wood, the CEO of pizza robot startup Picnic.

We talk food tech news and then hear Clayton's view on where things are going in the world of food robots.

Here are some of the stories we covered:

The Food tech venture capital market really dropped hard in...


Dec 3, 2022

We're ramping our Friday food tech casual news wrapups back up again, and this week Mike and Carlos got together to talk about some of the stories that caught their attention this week.

The stories we talked about include:

Will reusable containers take off at colleges? Maybe. What about restaurants? One startup is...


Nov 29, 2022

In his previous life, Max Elder worked as a futurist, where he helped food brands develop strategies for the future.

One of his primary motivations in this work was the hope that he could help steer them away from animal agriculture and towards a future centered around more humane and sustainable foods. Over time,...