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19 Nov

You Can Now Buy Lab-Grown Foie Gras

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At an upscale sushi bar in New York last week, a smattering of media and policy types chowed down on a menu of sushi rolls, peking duck tapas, and mushroom salad. But what made this menu unusual was the one ingredient that ran through the dishes—foie gras made from quail cells brewed in a bioreactor. The event, catered by the sushi chef Masa Takayama, was a launch party for Australian cultivated meat firm Vow, which will sell its foie gras at a handful of restaurants in Singapore and Hong Kong.The meal was decadent—one course featured a mountain of black truffle—but…

26 Oct

McDonald’s restaurants can finally repair their own McFlurry machines

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There are days where it feels like nothing will ever change and the best thing you can do is just learn to tolerate mediocrity. Today is not one of those days. announced that the US Copyright Office granted an exemption request from the non-profit public interest group and the DIY repair site iFixit to allow McDonald’s franchise owners to hire a third-party to repair their McFlurry and soft service ice cream machines.Franchise owners legally couldn’t hire any outside business to work on the machine because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). McDonald’s soft serve ice cream machines have a…

02 Oct

Uber and Wing will partner for drone delivery pilot in Dallas

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A new joint venture between Uber’s Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery drones and Alphabet’s Wing flying drone service will do a dual test run. Both tech companies hope that flying and sidewalk drones can cover areas its counterpart can’t and speed up delivery times. reported that Serve Robotics and Wing will start making deliveries in Dallas, Texas sometime in the coming months. The test will include a select number of customer orders being delivered by a combination of sidewalk and flying drones.One of the biggest challenges for drone delivery is coverage. Flying drones can only travel a certain distance away from…

20 Sep

When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting With an AI Host

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A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?”“Do you have patio seating,” I ask. Jasmine sounds a little sad as she tells me that unfortunately, the San Francisco–based Vietnamese restaurant doesn't have outdoor seating. But her sadness isn’t the result of her having a bad day. Rather, her tone is a feature, a setting.Jasmine is a member of a new, growing clan: the AI voice restaurant host. If you recently called up a restaurant in New York City, Miami, Atlanta, or San Francisco, chances…

09 Aug

Turkey’s Instagram Ban Hits Women Entrepreneurs as Orders Dry Up

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Turkey’s decision to block access to Instagram has hit female entrepreneurs who rely on the popular social media application to sell everything from cookies to bed sheets.“We’ve been using Instagram to showcase our products and reach out to a wider client base,” said Ezgi Akincilar, founder of online retailer Antalya’dan Iste, which sells food products from honey and jam to canned artichokes. Source link lol

08 Aug

Chinese Swap Handbags for Trips as ‘Experience Economy’ Booms

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Watching orders dwindle as China’s housing market slumped, factory owner Zheng Weirong decided to take action and protect his steel business from the real estate downturn.Betting on a tourism revival, he wound down a production line making metal bars in 2021 and shifted investment to producing container-sized cabins, often used as guest houses. The pivot paid off, with demand exploding last year after Chinese travel rebounded following the lifting of pandemic restrictions. Source link lol

08 Aug

Deliveroo Customer Orders Rise as Demand Improves Across Markets

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Deliveroo Plc said the value of customer orders grew in the first half and that earnings for the year will be on the higher end of its forecast after demand rose at the UK food delivery platform.Gross transaction value rose 6% at constant currencies from a year earlier to £3.69 billion ($4.7 billion), the company said in a statement on Thursday. That was in line with the average estimate from analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Source link lol

06 Aug

Ethanol Maker Green Plains Plunges on Bigger-Than-Expected Loss

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Green Plains Inc. shares plunged the most in more than four years as the ethanol producer again disappointed investors with lower-than-expected financial results. The company postedBloomberg Terminal a loss of 38 cents a share for the second quarter, double the average analyst estimate compiled by Bloomberg. Revenue fell 28% from a year earlier amid lower prices for corn-based ethanol and dry distillers grains used in livestock feed. Source link lol

01 Jul

Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Cuts Dozens of Jobs

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Cultivated meat firm Upside Foods has cut its workforce as the industry continues to struggle with bans from legislators and a significant downturn in venture capital funding. In an email sent to employees, Upside CEO Uma Valeti wrote that 26 people would leave the company and that executive and leadership teams would be restructured to “reduce top-heavy structures.”“Our focus must now narrow to a tighter set of priorities that pave the way for our product launches in the next two years,” Valeti wrote in the email seen by WIRED. “We need to deliver on the work that remains, especially on…