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The Story of Sushi: From Sea-to-Plate
“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, the video offers a disturbing look at the sustainability implications- environmental and social – of our growing hunger for cheap sushi
OpenMenu Brings Interoperability To Restaurant Industry
‘Standards’ and ’interoperability’ are fast becoming restaurant industry buzz words, at least from the tech side. Restaurants still largely operate in a very ‘Web 1.0′ way, with flash websites and PDF, word, or scanned menus. This is fueling an explosion in restaurant-related online food ordering, review, and recommendation websites, who are all trying to come
Food Genius Builds Netflix for Foodies By Digitizing The Dish
“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 through the deluge of information to find recommendations from people whose tastes are similar to our own? Food Genius thinks they’ve solved the problem: they’ve digitized the dish
FOOD 2.0: Sharing & Making Use of Restaurant, Menu, & Farm Data
Panelists from Seamless Web, AllMenus.com, Ordr.in, Clean Plates & Plovgh discussed their current projects using restaurant, menu, ingredient, food source, and nutritional data during the FOOD 2.0 Internet Week series. The also discussed barriers they face in collecting and sharing data in hopes of building a standard interchange called “Clean Format.”
Grubster Aims To Be The “Pandora of Social Restaurant Recommendations”
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 restaurant, currently available in New York and Austin. Like Eastdrink.it and Dinevore, Grubster wants to help you socialize, simplify, and optimize your dish choices at a restaurant. Shapiro
Dinevore: Helping You Curate & Personalize Restaurant Recommendations
The Internet has allowed for a democratization of ‘the expert.’ Restaurants and consumers must contend with the newly empowered voices of authority, whose feedback gets shared through channels such as Yelp, Menu Pages, Urbanspoon, Foursquare, Twitter, Blog posts, and more. But how do you vet the expert? Dinevore attempts to solve this problem by helping you
Eats & Apps: Building A Community of Food+Tech Lovers
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Grubwithus- Startup Brings People Offline To Make Connections Over Food
We go online for restaurant recommendations, recipes, dating, networking, and finding activity or interest groups, among other things. As our world becomes increasingly social, a growing number of startups are attempting to bridge the divide between digital and real life interactions. Sites such as Meetup.com have been extremely successful in leveraging technology as a tool
Real Time Farms Launches More Robust Food Information Platform
“We also think that if people feel they can use the data for other purposes besides viewing it on Real Time Farms, they’ll be more likely to want to participate. It’s a win-win.” – Real Time Farms Real Time Farms is a web platform that uses crowdsourcing to help you “connect the dots of your food
EatDrink.It: Helping You Remember & Discover Great Meals
What kind of restaurant search experience do you look for? There is certainly no shortage of web-based restaurant social review and recommendation platforms. The first generation of these sites, such as Yelp and Chow, tend to focus on content heavy reviews. EatDrink.It, a newcomer to the scene, is trying its hand at using the Foursquare
EATS+APPS: Feast on Food Apps During Social Media Week 2011
Food+Tech Connect is dedicated to building community for the growing food and tech sector- both online and off. I am thrilled to be working with Emily Cavalier of Mouth of The Border and Brian Quinn and Jonny Cigar of Noble Rot to bring the community together on next Tuesday, February 8, for an evening of great apps,
Yummly CEO David Feller On Food Data & Semantic Recipe Search
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could easily and quickly find the exact recipe you want, based on your personal health profile and preferences? Yummly CEO and Founder David Feller thinks so. Back in 2009, Feller recognized an opportunity to leverage recommendation engine technology to create a more intelligent recipe search engine, similar to Amazon
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore
The Product Group Meetup: Jeremy Fisher on Dinevore from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Product Group Meetup featured Dinevore founder Jeremy Fisher. In this video, Fisher and the group discuss his approach to building dinevore.com. Fisher and members of the group offer really interesting insight into process, customer development, and usability experience. It was an all
8 Simple Steps to Hackathon Epiphany
Up until a couple of weeks ago, the largest event I had ever organized were dinner parties for 10 in my apartment. Then the Food+Tech Hackathon came along. With 12 days of lead time, a $100 budget from Gojee, and big aspirations, I joined Danielle Gould (founder of Food+tech Connect), Marc Alt (CEO of Opensourcecities),
ThisBatch.com: NYC Tech Entrepreneur Chris Muscarella on Building The Lean CSA
This Batch, uses the power of the web and smart supply management to offer local produce that’s more on demand. Consumers win by getting more choice and flexibility of when they participate and farmers win by having pre-bought produce that they can transport easily along with their other orders, rather than having to speculate on how much to bring to a farmers market
