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Can FarmersWeb Help Local Food Go Mainstream?
More and more restaurants, supermarkets, universities, hospitals, and food service providers are trying to figure out how they begin to source ingredients locally. FarmersWeb, a new wholesale management tool and online marketplace, aims to make it easier for local farms and wholesale buyers to connect.
Insights from the NRA Show: Better Tech, Happier Customers & Fatter Margins
Most years there is a dominant tech solution at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA). Not this year. This year, we saw a range of technologies clustered around a common theme: guest experience. Wait list management apps, tablets for table top ordering, and customer guest loyalty solutions are all new solutions to old problems — not just incrementally higher-tech versions of the same solutions.
FAO’s Shiny New Agricultural Data & Information Sharing Tool
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has recently released a new resource that will make its agricultural development strategy a whole lot easier. The Agricultural Development Assistance Mapping (ADAM) tool is a platform that gathers information from diverse databases about agricultural development needs, objectives, in-country activities, and funding modalities, and aggregates
Innovator Video: The Future of Grocery – An Interactive Cheese, Meat & Fish Counter
In this senior thesis project, German interaction design students Benedikt Burgmaier and Fabian Kreuzer re-imagine the meat, cheese and fish counter to provide customers with detailed product, origin and recipe information about food items
BrightFarms’ Business Model: How Tech & Efficiency Could Help Farmers & Consumers [Video]
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Food and agriculture know are low margin industries. Paul Lightfoot, Chief Executive Officer of BrightFarms, a company that designs, finances, builds and operates greenhouse farms at grocery retailers, is attempting to capitalize on what he sees as inefficiently produced fresh vegetables. And he recently secured a $4.3 million Series A equity financing round to do so
Infographic of the Week: Top Tech Trends of 2011
This week’s Infographic of the Week was created by G+, and explains in detail the tech trends of the past year. But what Top Tech Trends of 2011 doesn’t tell you is that all of these trends are alive and well (and in many cases being pioneered) in the food world. Food+Tech Connect expects these
Innovator Video: Zaarly’s Adam Hofmann on Creating Connections
Adam Hofmann, Director of Marketing and Community Development at Zaarly, discusses creating a format to connect people throughout the food system
What Startups can Learn From Restaurants
Restaurants and startups have more in common than you might think. They face many of the same core challenges, such as building a business from the ground up, attracting and retaining customers, and recruiting people who can bake things from scratch.
Marcus Samuelsson on Hacking the Food System: Taking Food to a Whole New Level
During an age when any worldly fact or detail can be found on the Internet with just the click of a button, it’s no wonder technology has infiltrated its way into all industries. The food industry is no exception, and many new ways to find out about food news and facts are being created every day.
Google+ Hangouts: Initial Impressions From Studiofeast’s Cooking Class Hangout
This past Sunday I got to join Mike Lee of Studiofeast for his first Google+ Hangout Cooking Class. Google+ Hangouts is a free video conferencing service that allows you video chat with up to ten people in real-time. My experience with Studiofeast got me thinking about the wide-ranging applications for Google+ and Hangouts in particular.
Gojee: Lessons Learned in Building a Data-Driven Startup
One of the great challenges of building a startup is ensuring that your product meets market demand. This seems to be particularly true for data-driven startups, whose initial products often lack appeal for the average consumer. No matter how advanced, complex or innovative the technology is that powers a product, more often than not, user adoption is contingent on the simplicity of its design and user experience. The newly launched Gojee, a recipe site which allows users to search through hand-curated food blogger recipes based on what’s in your ‘pantry’, is case in point
Nicola Twilley On Food As A Lens For Understanding & Changing The World
GOOD Food Editor Nicola Twilley launched GOOD magazine’s new Food hub this past January. Through her editorial direction at GOOD, her blog Edible Geography, The Foodprint Project, the “Landscapes of Quarantine” exhibition, and Future Plural she helps us use food as a lens through which we can explore, understand, and reshape conversations about the design of health, global trade, poverty, cities, the environment, and of course food
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,
Windowfarms for Classrooms: Crowdsourcing Curricula
“The creativity of the individual “farmer” is the critical component to better environmental stewardship and food system change. We want to get citizens, teachers and kids thinking of themselves as farmers, experimenters, pioneers as much as our forefathers did. Stewardship means designing smart plans for the specific needs of one’s community and environment and making
Video: January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare & Meatshare
January Food+Tech Meetup With Wholeshare and Meatshare from Food Tech Connect on Vimeo. The January Food+Tech Meetup featured a conversation about developing new models for organizing food communities and getting food to those communities, moderated by Elizabeth Mcvay Greene. Matt Hatoun of Wholeshare and Melissa Mcewen of the Meatshare Meetup discussed how they are using
