Food News Now: Hyphen launches robotic makeline—allowing foodservice operations to automate meal prep and more

The platform consists of an Automated Makeline and companion OS that fulfills digital orders,...

Subscribe Friday, August 13, 2021 Each Friday, Food News Now presents the most popular articles from the week. Businesswire Hyphen launches robotic makeline—allowing foodservice operations to automate meal prep The platform consists of an Automated Makeline and companion OS that fulfills digital orders, manages inventory, and eliminates order issues such as missing ingredients and cross-contamination. Fast Company The new label we need on produce: 'smart-farmed' Consumers should know that they're buying from farms that are using technology to make agriculture more efficient and more sustainable. The Wall Street Journal Amid the labor shortage, robots step in to make the french fries In a White Castle just southeast of Chicago, the 100-year-old purveyor of fast food has played host for the past year to an unusual, and unusually hardworking, employee: a robotic fry cook. Civil Eats Building an alternative supply chain for shiitake mushroom growers The Logs to NYC project connects city-based mushroom growers with rural landowners and surplus lumber hoping to blaze a trail to lower-carbon living. Sponsored Content Simpleat™ Plant-based Meat Solutions Providing manufacturers cleaner label, fully cooked plant-based meat solutions for new product development. Watch the limitless possibilities of Simpleat. PR Newswire Kellogg's new Chef in Residency Fellowship to provide opportunity for Black chefs Christopher Williams joined Kellogg as the first Chef in Residency earlier this year. In a recent blog post, he shares what this experience means to him and the future of food. The Wall Street Journal Tyson Foods says labor, grain costs boosting meat prices Tyson Foods projected higher meat costs ahead, as the company seeks to pass along elevated prices for animal feed, increased wages and ongoing pandemic expenses to restaurants and supermarkets. Fast Company Freshly joins the plant-based meal craze The Nestlé-owned company is out with a new line of plant-based options, aimed to take on meal kits from services such as Purple Carrot and Hungry Root. UPI Two-thirds of calories for kids, teens in U.S. are from ultra-processed foods, study says More than two-thirds of calories consumed by children and teens in the United States come from ultra-processed foods, a study published Tuesday by JAMA found. AGFunder News Cultivated crustacea pioneer Shiok Meats acquires Gaia Foods to expand into red meat The deal "sets an example for a novel way of building and growing a company as part of the accelerating [alt-protein] industry," said Shiok Meats CEO Sandhya Sriram. Institute of Food Technologists | 525 W. Van Buren St. | Suite 1000 | Chicago, IL 60607 | USA This newsletter made Smart by Subscribe | Report | Learn More | Unsubscribe | Contact