Articles about Food – Page 5 of 6

GrubHub CEO: ‘Uber and Amazon are the new boogiemen in the market’

Amazon, Uber, and a whole host of startups are hungry for their share of the food delivery market. But GrubHub has… Read More

Fexy Media lands $6M to grow its portfolio of millennial-focused food brands

Fexy Media, a Mercer Island-based company focused on acquiring millennial-minded food brands, just secured $6 million in funding, according to… Read More

Fexy Media adds Simply Recipes to portfolio of food sites targeting millennials

Food media is a competitive market and everyone has their eyes set on millennials. Like Hanzel and Gretel before them,… Read More

Uber launches standalone food delivery app in four U.S. cities

Uber’s food delivery ambitions are ramping up. The ride-hailing giant today debuted its new standalone UberEATS food delivery app in four… Read More

Meet Crowd Cow: Tech vets take the mystery out of buying good meat, turn customers into ‘steak holders’

“Where’s the beef?” may have found its calling as a catchphrase with a long shelf life in the 1980s, but… Read More

UW’s NutriRay3D smartphone gadget maps your meal and counts the calories

How many calories are on your plate? Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a gizmo that estimates the… Read More

Dominos rolls out new high-tech delivery vehicle, complete with built-in warming oven

What happens when a pizza chain crowdsources the design for its new high-tech delivery vehicle? You get a souped up ride… Read More

Inside CaliBurger: New In-N-Out-like burger shop lets people play Minecraft against each other

Another new restaurant is opening in Seattle — this one, though, features wireless charging tables, mobile ordering, and lets customers compete… Read More

Meet FlyBuy: This startup helps restaurants, retailers offer roadside pickups

A new Seattle startup is using technology to help retailers and restaurants offer their own drive-thru service. Founded last year, FlyBuy is picking… Read More

Fresh off a $16M round, Farmigo brings online farmers market service to Seattle

Seattleites interested in buying food from local farmers and producers have a new tech-powered option available. Farmigo, which calls itself… Read More

UberEATS launches in Seattle today: Here’s what you need to know

Ericka Burke wants to defeat fast food and says that her restaurant’s new partnership with Uber can help make it happen. Burke,… Read More

Geek of the Week: PATH’s Kimberly Amundson is using technology to transform human milk banks

Kimberly Amundson’s passion for international service began at a young age. The Bellevue, Wash., native participated in a yearly home-building project… Read More

Peach raises $8M to deliver lunch, will expand service to Boston and Washington D.C.

Peach has nailed down a successful formula for delivering lunch to office workers in places like Seattle and San Diego. Now, the… Read More

App of the Week: Handpick finds recipes for the ingredients in your fridge

Do you find yourself opening the fridge after a long day and wondering what you could possibly concoct for dinner?… Read More

Instacart now offers one-hour grocery delivery from Seattle’s Central Co-op

Those who like shopping at Seattle’s Central Co-op can now have their groceries delivered. Instacart announced that it will offer… Read More

App of the Week: Evernote Food helps you remember the meals that made an impression

Do you love taking pictures of your food? Do you peruse food photography sites at work, scheming about the delectable culinary treat you’ll cook… Read More

Restaurant coupon app Forks raises cash to help people save money on food

Forks is raising cash to help you save some dough. The Seattle-based startup, which develops a restaurant coupon app for… Read More

Lunch delivery startup Peach finds success by catering meals at local startups

Peach is already growing quickly with its lunch delivery service, now serving mid-day meals to more than 250 offices in the Seattle… Read More

Food industry vets pour $1.3M into Kitchenbowl recipe app as top chefs join platform

Kitchenbowl is raising some dough to help people cook. The Seattle-based startup has reeled in $1.3 million from angel investors like… Read More

Former AllRecipes president jumps back into food world, buys Serious Eats and Roadfood

Lisa Sharples spent six years as the head honcho at Allrecipes, leading the Seattle company to prominence in the online… Read More

Would you buy Amazon-branded milk? Online retailer reportedly expanding into private-label food

Amazon is following in the footsteps of many traditional retailers by putting out its own line of food and household… Read More

Ex-Amazon engineers launch Kickstarter for stove knobs that control temperature automatically

As I drop a quartet of refrigerated, uncooked rice balls into a pot of bubbling oil, the stove knobs below my hands… Read More

Startup lands $11 million to help grocery stores turn food waste into organic fertilizer

Wiserg, a Redmond startup that’s looking to convert food waste into organic fertilizer, just picked up $11 million in fresh… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: State’s proposed drone laws fuel ‘Surveillance Society’ conversation

The Washington State House of Representatives passed several bills Wednesday that would impose new regulations on surveillance technology and drones. The legislation makes… Read More

Eating too many cookies? Killing your plants? These sensors can help

LAS VEGAS — The sensors have arrived, and they want you to keep your hands out of the cookie jar. Connected sensors… Read More

Foodies and chefs, take note: Dinner Lab brings pop-up restaurant service to Seattle

Heads up, Seattle foodies: Dinner Lab is launching its pop-up restaurant service in your city. The fast-growing food startup announced today that… Read More

Grocery Delivery Wars: How Amazon Fresh, Instacart and Safeway stacked up in our tests

Upcoming changes in the Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service in Seattle are causing some longtime customers to think twice. Is it worth the new $299/year… Read More

Why this fast-growing recipe app startup moved from San Francisco to Seattle

Several tech giants have set up engineering offices in the Seattle area in an attempt to tap into the vast… Read More

We used Amazon for lunch delivery, and here’s what happened

Amazon.com already helped us order lunch in July, but back then, we were forced to pick up our food at the local BBQ… Read More

News Brief

Restaurant bill paying startup Viableware changes name to TableSafe

Viableware, the Kirkland startup that’s trying to transform how people pay restaurant bills with a handheld bill paying device, has… Read More