Food

The distinction between eating away from home (restaurants) and eating at home (groceries) is blurring as consumers use connected devices and apps integrated with payments, to move seamlessly between buying restaurant food to eat at home and groceries and prepared food at the grocery store or convenience stores to cook at home.

Mama’s Biscuits Opening New Manufacturing Facility In Maryland
Mama’s Biscuits Opening New Manufacturing Facility In Maryland
June 12, 2017  |  Retail

Mama’s Biscuits, America’s first gourmet biscuit company, founded by Lesley Riley, is opening a new manufacturing facility in Frederick, Md., according to a press release....

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Touch And Taste: The Future Of Food Is Here
Touch And Taste: The Future Of Food Is Here
June 06, 2017  |  News

The question, “Where do you want to go for dinner?” just got more complicated. Restaurants are starting to introduce virtual reality and augmented reality dining....

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Blue Apron Files To Go Public
Blue Apron Files To Go Public
June 05, 2017  |  News

Blue Apron on Thursday filed to go public, but that doesn’t mean the meal-kit pioneer has won the start-up game. From 2014 to 2016, the...

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Smart Stoves And Robo-Waiters: The Future Of Food Prep And Service
Smart Stoves And Robo-Waiters: The Future Of Food Prep And Service
June 01, 2017  |  Retail

“Food trend” doesn’t just mean avocado toast and grapefruit shandy. At the National Restaurant Association Show, more than 2,200 exhibitors painted pictures of the future...

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Tech Over Taste Was No Recipe For Success At The Melt
Tech Over Taste Was No Recipe For Success At The Melt
June 01, 2017  |  News

The Melt’s business model has been a bit of a gooey mess over the past six years, its “Grilled Cheese Happiness” motto melting into grilled...

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Profit Is Icing On The #Cake For Instagrammers
Profit Is Icing On The #Cake For Instagrammers
May 31, 2017  |  Retail

Chelsey White gets to ‘Gram her cake and have it, too. The 26-year-old Instagram celebrity has monetized her baking hobby to the point where she...

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American Express Survey: As Diners Change, So Do Restaurants
American Express Survey: As Diners Change, So Do Restaurants
May 23, 2017  |  Retail

A recent survey by American Express shows that, unsurprisingly, millennials have the biggest appetite for digital dining experiences, from ordering take-out through a mobile app...

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Startup Maple Being Sold To UK’s Deliveroo
Startup Maple Being Sold To UK’s Deliveroo
May 09, 2017  |  Retail

Maple, the food delivery company in New York, has shuttered its doors as of Monday (May 8). According to a report, the startup, which blasted...

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Grocery Tracker: 7-Eleven Eyes 10K U.S. Stores
Grocery Tracker: 7-Eleven Eyes 10K U.S. Stores
April 11, 2017  |  Retail

Things are looking up for three of the four grocery stocks we track as winter finally begins to turn to spring—though growth has come to...

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