For most Americans, the Kraft and Heinz brands have been ever-present in our cupboards and fridges for our entire lives. Products like Oscar Meyer hot dogs, Kraft cheese, Velveeta, and Jello. Household names all. The company resulted from the 2015 merger between Kraft Foods and Heinz. Now the third biggest food brand in North America, we thought it…

This episode is the audio from the very first session at SKS 2024, Lessons From the First Wave (And How to Prepare for The Next One). The session included Chris Young (Combustion, ChefSteps, Modernist Cuisine), Scott Heimendinger (Sansaire, Modernist Cuisine and Cuisonic), and Kai Schaffner (Thermomix). The session was moderated by The Spoon's Mich…

SKS 2024 is in the books, so Carlos Rodela and Mike sit down and talk about the craziness of the past week, some of the products they checked out at the show, and some of the talks by our great lineup of speakers. If you'd like to see a video version of this conversation with interspered photos from SKS, check it out on the Spoon later this week.…

What would happen if you put a big battery in your induction stove? For one thing, you could cook at a much higher temperature because the power the battery brings to each cooking session is much higher than a traditional outlet. You also have the start of a fractionalized power wall, creating a foundation for what could be your electrified home. W…

If you follow food Instagram or TikTok, chances are over the past couple of years you've seen a touchscreen toaster from Revolution Cooking. Revolution's toaster went viral during the pandemic, in part because it has a touchscreen, but also because of a price tag north of $250. But Revolution CEO Tom Klaff said the toaster was just the beginning, a…

This episode's guest is Assaf Pashut, the founder of Chefee, a company that makes home cooking robots. If there's a category in kitchen technology where there have been lots of startups over the past few years, it's food robotics. Zume, Flippy, Remy Robotics, BurgetBot, and Picnic to name a few. Even Travis Kalanick is getting into the act. However…

Nick Holzherr is well-known in the smart kitchen space. With the rapid growth of his startup Whisk and the acquisition of the company by Samsung, it's one of the true success stories in this market. Whisk was the first recipe startup to explore early on how to use AI and apply it to recipes. As we find out in this interview, Nick and his team were …

This week Mike and Carlos be joined by Future Market’s Mike Lee to talk over some of the most interesting stories of the week. Mike Lee also tells us about his new book Mise, which paints four different scenarios depicting the potential direction of our future food system. Here are all the stories we’ll be talking about. Bored & Hungry Closes – Foo…

This week on the Food Tech News Show we are joined by Scott Heimendinger, one of the inventors of the home sous vide circulator and a long-time kitchen tech inventor. Here are the stories we talk about: Apple is working on robots for the home! – From Bloomberg: “The original concept for the robot was a device that could navigate entirely on its own…

If you follow the world of kitchen and consumer food tech startups, you know there hasn't been much in the way of venture funded startups targeting food waste in the home. That changed last year when Mill lifted the veil on the company and its first product, the Mill Bin, a smart food recycler. The company had a unique approach, offering a subscrip…

This week, the Spoon crew got together to discuss some of the big stories of the week on a new weekly video news show we’re launching called The Food Tech News Show. The stories Carlos Rodela and I discuss include: Keurig Unveils Plastic-Free Coffee Pods, Developed With A Little Help From The Maker of CoffeeB Keurig Takes Another Swing at Cold Beve…

Over the past decade, Fresco has been building technology that helps appliance and housewares brands to create smart kitchen products. The journey for Fresco started when the company - then known as Drop - created a connected kitchen scale. After finding success selling its scale in the Apple store and other locations, the company started working w…

Around 2009, Ralph Newhouse's company hunted down excess inventory of small electrics and would re-sell them into the secondary market. However, it wasn't long before Newhouse realized he wanted to make his own appliances, and that's when the Chefman we know today was born. Newhouse wasn't done. As he and Chefman started to see how new connected pr…

Ty Thompson and the rest of the Ovie team recently passed a major milestone: They shipped their first piece of hardware. The product, a consumer food waste management system, was over half a decade in the making. Along the way to market, the founding team faced numerous challenges around funding, finalizing the product concept and design, building …

Chris Young is one of the most provocative and interesting thinkers in the future of food and cooking, so any time he visits The Spoon podcast we learn a lot. This time was no exception. In this episode of The Spoon Podcast, we talk about: How he has put AI compute into something as small as a thermometer Where he thinks generative AI and other AI …

Food delivery through underground tubes? Sounds crazy, but it's already happening today, and Pipedream's Garrett McCurrach thinks it just may be the future of delivery. We catch up with Garrett just a week after they announced their first pilot in the Atlanta suburbs, where they have built a system that delivers food and other items underground for…

This week SuperGut CEO Marc Washington joins the podcast to talk about why new GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are keeping CPG brand CEOs up at night. These new drugs, which got their start as a new class of pharmaceuticals that help contol type 2 diabetes, have become very popular in recent years as weight loss drug. They are hugely effective …

In this episode we talk about how residential leases are dealt with in chapter 7 and chapter 13 as well as how you and your landlord may be affected.By Roger Kraft

In this episode of The Spoon Podcast, we welcome Ari Tulla, CEO of Elo Health. Ari got his start in tech working for mobile giant Nokia, where he helped lead the company's mobile app studio. However, after his wife experienced a health scare in the late 2000s, Ari decided to turn his attention to the broken health system and built what he describes…

In this short episode we talk about some basic strategies to increase your credit score after you've filed a bankruptcy and how long the bankruptcy will be reported on your credit report.By Roger Kraft

Andrew Simmons is an open book. When the long-time entrepreneur decided to buy a restaurant in 2020, little did he know that in just a few months he would be forced to close his doors due to COVID. But instead of giving up, he had to get creative and, after surviving the pandemic, he kept on tinkering, trying to figure out how new technology could …

In this week's podcast, we talk food and AI with Evan Rapoport. Over the past decade, Evan has led teams in Google Research and other organizations looking at how AI could impact biodiversity and change. During our conversation, we talk about a project called Tidal, in which he and Google used AI technology like computer vision and applied it to aq…

In this episode we talk about how the fees are paid in a chapter 7 and a chapter 13 and how to make sure you're paying a fair price.By Roger Kraft

When you think of the kitchen of the future, do you envision a 3D food printer instantly whipping up a dinner or a snack? While the crazy idea might not happen tomorrow, if life follows the path of science fiction (as it often does), there's a good chance a food printer will be sitting on our kitchen counter in 10 or 20 years. If we're going to get…

In this episode we talk about what happens to your tax debt in a chapter 7 and chapter 13 case and what tax debt qualifies for a discharge when you file a bankruptcy.By Roger Kraft

In this episode, we discuss what an adversary proceeding is, who files them, and some of the more common reasons they are filed.By Roger Kraft

As a child, Oliver Zahn was a self-described "mathy" kid who had a fascination with how the world worked. This early interest in the mechanics of the universe would lead him to the study astrophysics and embark on a career that would land him at one of the world's top universities teaching cosmology. But as Zahn went on to become a world-recognized…

In this episode I talk about how you can go about getting a mortgage loan after you've filed a bankruptcy. I talk about the different types of mortgages and the waiting periods for getting a loan, depending on what chapter of bankruptcy you've filed. I also give some helpful hints on how to build your credit after filing bankruptcy.…

This week we catch up with Wired's Joe Ray. Here at The Spoon we're fans of Joe's kitchen reviews, where he cuts to the quick and tells the reader exactly why he or she should (or shouldn't) buy a product. In this episode, we take a look back at how Joe got started in food, why he picked up one day and went to France to become a writer, his tutelag…

In this episode I'll explain some of the ramifications and options if you leave a creditor out of your bankruptcy and why it matters whether you've filed a chapter 7 or chapter 13.By Roger Kraft

In this podcast interview, Mike catches up with SideChef's Kevin Yu in the wake of the company's recent funding round to discuss the evolution of SideChef and the smart kitchen market. A lot has happened since Mike and Kevin first met on the roof deck of a restaurant at SXSW, so they reminisce about old times, talk about the cyclical nature of inno…

In this episode I explore some of the more common issues that come up when a couple divorces and one or both of them need to file a bankruptcy. I'll talk about the timing of those cases along with how they are affected in chapter 7 and chapter 13.By Roger Kraft

In this episode I'll either bore you or confuse you with the concept of what we call The Means Test, which applies in every consumer bankruptcy case. You can't get away from it, so you may as well learn more about it and embrace this wonderful form that Congress created in 2005. Boo, Hiss! There is no explicit language in this podcast, but the Mean…

Are VCs still hungry for food robotics investments? We ask S2G's Arthur Chow and Vebu Labs' Buck Jordan what their thoughts are on the food automation landscape. In this podcast we ask: The current investment climate for food automation Why founders should consider monetizing on their vision soon through incremental releases of products The roll-up…

In this episode we talk about how a chapter 7 trustee administers your estate. You'll learn how a trustee views your assets and values those assets and then makes a determination as to whether the trustee will require you to turn over certain assets.By Roger Kraft

Do you know what DeSci is? If you don't, don't feel bad, especially if, like me, food is your primary focus. A16Z's publication Future describes DeSci as a movement in which "a growing number of scientists and entrepreneurs are leveraging blockchain tools, including smart contracts and tokens, in an attempt to improve modern science. Collectively, …

In this episode we talk about what types of debt are typically discharged in a bankruptcy and some of the debts are not dischargeable, or, at least more difficult to discharge. We also talk about the myths of not being able to discharge tax debt and student loans.By Roger Kraft

Our special guest is Scott Heimendinger for our weekly food tech news wrapup. Scott is a long-time kitchen tech inventor and entrepreneur who is currently building his next big thing. In this episode, we discuss the following stories: Tovala intro's new oven Why all the sourdough tech now? Do we need tech to make us better bakers? Good and bad way …

In this episode we discuss what the meeting of creditors, or "341" is, who attends, how to answer questions by the trustee, and what you can expect when you attend.By Roger Kraft

In this episode we talk about section 362 of the bankruptcy code, called the Automatic Stay and how that provision keeps creditors from collecting after you've filed for bankruptcy. It also talks about when a creditor can continue to collect and what the punishments are if a creditor violates the Automatic Stay.…

Up until now, every morsel of food astronauts eat in outer space was created and packaged on earth. However, as we embark on the era of long-term space flight, NASA and other space agencies realize that that will need to change. As the Senior Project Manager for Space Crop Production and Exploration Food Systems for NASA, this is the problem Ralph …

In this episode we talk about what property may be considered property of your bankruptcy estate and then we talk about how to protect that property through Exemption Laws.By Roger Kraft

In this episode we talk about some of the basic things you should do and should not do before, and during the filing of your bankruptcy.By Roger Kraft

In this episode we discuss some of the basic reasons people file for bankruptcy as well as the most common chapters of bankruptcy available to consumers. We discuss the differences in chapter 7 and chapter 13 and how each case generally works.By Roger Kraft

In this episode we talk about things you should be looking for in a bankruptcy attorney and the red flags that should be aware of when making a decision on whom to hire.By Roger Kraft

In this week's episode we catch up with Rachel Konrad, a former journalist who has spent the last decade-plus working for Tesla, Impossible Foods and now the Production Board. Rachel joins Michael Wolf and Carlos Rodela to talk about her background, the recent controversy around Bloomberg's article declaring plant-based meat a fad, and how she help…

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 look forward to in 2023 You can…

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 the data practices of legacy onli…

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 Q3.: Food tech venture drops 6…

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 trying to make it work. A new smar…