Tech Bites
299 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsMeet the innovators and influencers at the intersection of food and technology. Tech Bites investigates the profound ways the rapidly evolving digital world is transforming how we discover, produce, and share food in the real world. Are the food revolution and the start-up generation in sync or in conflict? Host Jennifer Leuzzi explores how technology impacts our culinary lives. Get connected @TechBitesHRN on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter or email us [email protected]. Tech Bites theme song "No Matta' CPU Track" by Uptown Nikko.
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Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink Class of 2024
February 07, 2024 03:17 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBMeet the Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink class of 2024. The annual list identifies and applauds young innovators and entrepreneurs who are redefining the way we eat, drink, and think about food. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Forbes Under 30 editors Chloe Sorvino and Kristin Stoller abut the trends and companies on this year's list. Joining the conversation are two of this year’s winners: Blodin Ukella, founder and CEO of Ryl Iced Tea, and Angel Zheng, founder...
New Year Predictions With RJ Bee HRN’s New ED
December 19, 2023 22:17 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBFollowing Tech Bites tradition, the last show of the year is a look forward into the next year. What are the trends we’re predicting for 2024? Podcasting and anniversaries. On this episode, Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with RJ Bee, the new Executive Director at Heritage Radio Network about plans for celebrating HRN’s 15th anniversary and Tech Bites 300th show with live events across the country, video upgrades, and musical guests. Photo Courtesy of Tech Bites. Heritage Radio Netwo...
Year in Review: Legislative & Court Victory for App-Based Delivery Drivers
December 12, 2023 21:56 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBFollowing Tech Bites tradition, the penultimate episode of the year is always a look back. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks about the new minimum wage law for app-based delivery drivers and the recent court victory for drivers with returning guests Ligia Guallpa, executive director of the Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) and Josh Wood, delivery driver and one of the leaders of Los Deliveristas Unidos (LDU), the workers collective driving the change. Photo Courtesy of ...
Farm.One Grows in Brooklyn
July 12, 2023 23:23 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBWe first met Farm.One founder Rob Laing in 2016 on episode 145. Farm.One opened in Tribeca growing rare herbs, edible flowers, micro greens, and other exotic produce year-round for chefs and restaurants, using hydroponics and LED lighting. Episode 240 covers 2020, the global pandemic, and Farm.One’s pivot into delivering freshly-harvested greens to New York subscribers by bike and their move to a larger farm in Brooklyn. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks to Rob Laing,...
Pizza Robots & Automatic Baristas
July 05, 2023 20:27 - 44 minutes - 41.1 MBRobots, automation and AI are here. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with former Space-X engineer Benson Tsai, CEO and co-founder of Stellar Pizza (robot-powered pizza trucks), and Stephan von Muehlen CEO and co-founder of Poursteady (automated pour-over coffee machines). Photo Courtesy of @robotsrthebest Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Tech Bites by becoming a member! Tech Bites is Powered by Simplecast.
CHEFWISE With Shari Bayer From All in the Industry
June 14, 2023 22:24 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MBOn this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with fellow Heritage Radio Network host Shari Bayer of All in the Industry, about her recently published book CHEFWISE: Life Lessons from Leading Chefs Around the World (Phaidon Press). It is a book of inspiration, advice, and life lessons from 117 leading chefs around the world. Many have been on Heritage Radio Network, a member-supported radio station with more than one million monthly listeners worldwide. Photo Courtesy of Eric Vi...
Salt & Straw Ice Cream’s Upcycled Food Series With the Spare Food Co
June 08, 2023 18:11 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBI scream, you scream, we all scream to help solve the world's massive food waste problem with ice cream. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Tyler Malek, Co-Founder and Head Ice Cream Maker for Salt & Straw Ice Cream and Jeremy Kaye, Co-Founder of The Spare Food Co about Salt & Straw’s Upcycled Food Series featuring the Lemon Curd & Whey flavor, a tangy gelato infused with The Spare Food Co's Lemon & Ginger Spare Tonic. Photo Courtesy of Salt & Straw. Heritage Ra...
Food Truck Tech With Scream Truck and Joule Case
May 17, 2023 22:31 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MBI scream, you scream, we all scream for lowering CO2 emissions by 1-billion pounds. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Justin LeVrier, VP of Sales of Joule Case, and Eric Murphy, CEO and founder of Scream Truck, the on-demand ice cream trucks powered by Joule Case batteries. Photo Courtesy of Scream Truck. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Tech Bites by becoming a member! Tech Bites is Powered by Simplecast.
Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography with Nathan Myhrvold
May 10, 2023 22:32 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBGo behind-the-scenes of the Modernist Cuisine series with Nathan Myhrvold and his latest book Food & Drink: Modernist Cuisine Photography. Food & Drink looks at the technical aspects of the equipment and process, and the art of portraiture as applied to food. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Nathan about the cutting-edge techniques, custom-built cameras, robotics, and digitizers that were used to create the photographs in the series. Hungry for more? Listen to T...
Career Advice: Pivoting Into Food Tech
April 12, 2023 00:36 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBHi Tech Bites. My name is Mae and I have a career in the creative agency space but am now looking to pivot into the food industry. I'm intrigued by the intersection of food, community, media, and entrepreneurship. Would you have any interest in a virtual ‘coffee chat’ with me? I would absolutely love to pick your brain about your amazing career in food & food media, and absorb as much as I possibly can to figure out what’s next for me. On this unique episode of Tech Bites, guest Mae Beerman ...
SCiFi Foods: Lab-Grown Meat Using Crispr
April 05, 2023 17:10 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBHow do you build a better burger? At SciFi Foods, they do it in the laboratory, using cutting-edge biology and bioengineering technology, like CRISPR, to cultivate beef cells, then add them to plant-based ingredients. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Dr. Kasia Gora, PhD, co-founder ,and CTO of SCiFi Foods about the race to be first to market in cultivated beef with the launch of the SCiFi burger. Photo Courtesy of Jen Garcia. Heritage Radio Network is a listen...
Mushroom Trend: Functionals And Adaptogens With Alice Mushrooms and Rasa
March 14, 2023 20:36 - 51 minutes - 47.4 MBMushrooms are suddenly everywhere. Products ranging from functional beverages to mood-changing supplements have popped up in media, online, and in-market. What’s the difference between functional mushrooms and adaptogens? Do they really work? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Charlotte Cruze, Co-Founder and COO of Alice Mushrooms, a functional mushroom chocolate, and Ben LeVine, Co-Founder and Chief Herbalist of Rasa, an adaptogen coffee alternative, about how mu...
Mushroom Trend: Eat Meati
March 08, 2023 02:56 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBMushrooms are suddenly everywhere. Products ranging from functional beverages to mood-changing supplements have popped up in media, online, and in-market. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Tyler Huggins, CEO and Co-Founder of Meati Foods, about their debut product line of cutlets and steaks made from mycelium mushroom root. The whole-food protein meat is cultivated using a modernized version of ancient and natural processes, with thew intention of helped preserve...
Spicy Green Book: Non-profit Directory of Black-Owned Restaurants
February 21, 2023 23:24 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBAre you a content creator looking to impact change and support Black owned businesses? There’s an app for that. Spicy Green Book. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with returning guest Danilo Batson, about the success and growth of Spicy Green Book, a directory of Black-owned food and hospitality businesses. The non-profit organization uses volunteers, like photographers and designers, to work with business to create the content and listings. Currently Spicy Green Boo...
Food Tech Investment Trends With Fazeela Abdul Rashid of Revolution Growth
January 31, 2023 23:39 - 52 minutes - 47.9 MBIt has been said on this podcast that we are in an unprecedented time of investment in the food tech space. Companies that get funding today make the products you will see in stores tomorrow. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talk with Fazeela Abdul Rashid of Revolution Growth about how she evaluates companies for investments. Revolution Growth, a venture capital fund investing in growth-stage companies around the country that are leading disruption within their industry in...
Essential but Unprotected: App Delivery Drivers in NYC
January 25, 2023 00:56 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBWe care deeply about where our food comes from, scrutinizing how it’s grown to who prepares it and the values of the companies along the supply chain. Do we care about the person who takes it the last mile, delivering it to your door? In 2020 delivery workers in NYC created Los Deliveristas Unidos demanding five essential rights: a living wage, essential protection from theft, violence, wage theft, and safety hazards. They are still essential and unprotected. On this episode, host Jenifer Le...
Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink Class of 2023
January 17, 2023 23:17 - 50 minutes - 45.9 MBMeet the Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink class of 2023. The annual list identifies and applauds young innovators and entrepreneurs who are redefining the way we eat, drink, and think about food. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Forbes Under 30 editors Chloe Sorvino and Kristin Stoller about the trends and companies on this year's list. One of this year’s winners, Téa Ivanovic, talks about her company Immigrant Food, gastroadvocacy, and the impact of being on the...
Food Tech for Mindfulness With Hasu Flower
December 16, 2022 21:35 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBFollowing Tech Bites tradition, the last show of the year is a look forward into the next year. What’s the trend we’re predicting for 2023? Food tech for mindfulness. On this episode, Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Bryan Litman, co-founder of Hasu Flower, a 3D-printed micro-meditation tablet that engages your senses to “pause, smell and (mouth) feel.” During the pandemic he developed Hasu, a dissolvable meditation tablet to center your mind and cultivate a moment of mindfulness. ...
Year in Review: Restaurant Trends Report With Krystle Mobayeni of Bentobox
December 07, 2022 05:13 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MBFollowing Tech Bites tradition, the penultimate episode of the year is always a look back. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks about 2022 with returning guest Krystle Mobayeni, founder and CEO of BentoBox. She brings a first look at the just released BentoBox 2022 Restaurant Trends Report, an analysis of critical data from more than 14,000+ restaurants worldwide. Spoiler alert: the big five includes restaurant tech, search engines, and online ordering. Photo Courtesy o...
Aerobanquets RMX : The World’s First Mixed Reality, Immersive Gastronomy Experience
November 30, 2022 05:38 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBVirtual reality engages our senses of sight and sound. But what about taste and smell? If you could eat art and music… what would it taste like? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with artist Mattia Casalegno and Kathleen Forde, senior curator of Superblue, about Aerobanquets RMX, the world’s first mixed reality, immersive gastronomy experience. Inspired by the Futurist Cookbook, the (in)famous Italian compendium of surreal recipes and fantastical dinners published in ...
Tracking Your Cheese: Parmigiano Reggiano's p-Chip Technology
November 18, 2022 04:20 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBWhere’s my cheese? The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium is currently testing food-safe, digital labels on its cheese wheels. The p-Chip micro transponders deliver previously unseen levels of traceability, inventory tracking and control, product authentication, quality-assurance testing, product serialization, and consumer safety. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Riccardo Deserti, Director of The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium, and Massimo Baio, Director of Busines...
Delivering the Digital Restaurant: Your Roadmap to the Future of Food
November 02, 2022 05:31 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBThe rate of restaurant tech evolution seems to get faster and faster, with consumers adopting new behaviors and desires with every new app they download. How can restaurants keep up with market demands and use tech to make their business more efficient and profitable? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks to Meredith Sandland and Carl Orsbourn, the authors of Delivering the Digital Restaurant. Using first- hand accounts of food industry veterans and start-up entrepreneurs...
Kitchen Gear Awards
October 25, 2022 16:34 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBThinking about getting one of those magical microwaves that can also air fry, bake, and broil, but you’re not sure which one is worth the investment? The staff at the Good Housekeeping Institute just tested more the 200 products for their annual Kitchen Gear Awards, so you don’t have to. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Nicole Papantoniou, Director of the Good Housekeeping Kitchen Appliances & Innovation Lab, about this year’s winners and the new coffee awards. ...
Avant: State-Of-The-Art Fish Tech
October 18, 2022 21:52 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBFish and seafood are the only kind of commonly consumed animal protein that are still caught in the wild. When we think about plant-based or lab-grown substitutes for animal products, most of the conversation focuses on the environment. For fish, there’s also consideration for the environment impacting the quality of the natural product, with increasing levels of heavy metals and micro plastics. Overfishing and endangered aquatic-populations are also a concern. An ocean without fish, is not ...
Sugar Lab: Digital Bakery and 3D Printing
October 07, 2022 02:20 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBSugar Lab is billed as the world’s first digital bakery offering a fanciful array of sweet and savory treats all produced on 3D printers. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Sugar Lab founder and CEO Kyle von Hasseln about inventing the technology as an architect student a decade ago and how that led to his building the only NSF-certified commercial-scale 3D food printer. Working with a team of traditional pastry chefs and digital designers, Sugar Lab is inventing ...
Pumpspotting: Breastfeeding Support Mobile App for the Hospitality Industry
September 27, 2022 22:00 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBBeing a new mom breastfeeding her baby has it challenges. Being a new mom working in a restaurant is almost impossible. But there’s an app for that. Pumpspotting, the online baby feeding and lactation support platform, specifically designed a version of its app to accommodate the fast-paced environment of the restaurant industry. A new partnership, between Kalamata’s Kitchen, Resy, and The Lee Initiative is covering the cost for all working mothers in the restaurant industry to gain premium ...
The Production Board: Tech Incubator & Holding Company
September 22, 2022 23:57 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MBFunding is perhaps the key element to a successful food tech start-up. Typically, an entrepreneur has an idea and takes it to investors. The Production Board, based in California, has a very different approach. TPB is the entrepreneur, identifying problems and production issues that need to be solved across agriculture and food, human health, life sciences and biomanufacturing, and then build a team and company up around them. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with TP...
Supergut: Prebiotics & Gut Microbiome
September 14, 2022 08:22 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBHow’s your gut microbiome? Are you feeding your microbiota a healthy dose of prebiotics and probiotics? Using functional foods to build a healthy digestive system for overall better health is one of the top food tech trends today. With that comes a lot of new scientific terms and concepts to try and figure out what it is and if it’s right for me. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Marc Washington about how he founded Supergut in honor of his sister, who died of co...
Composting Tech for Your Kitchen
August 10, 2022 07:24 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBThe latest appliance fighting for space on your kitchen counter is the composting machine. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Nicole Papantoniou, Director of the Good Housekeeping, Kitchen Appliances & Innovation Lab. Good Housekeeping has been on newsstands since 1885. The Institute was created in 1900 to test home products, with the first Good House Keeping Seal in 1909. Today in 2022, consumers are interested in recycling food waste back into the soil as anothe...
Good Rebel Tech @ Heura Foods
August 03, 2022 06:20 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBWhen we hear the term “plant-based” we often think the product is better nutritionally and environmentally than the animal counter-part. But plant-based is not always better, given that most products are highly processed using a litany of highly processed ingredients. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Isabel Fernández, Science & Technology Director at Heura Foods, Europe’s fastest-growing plant-based meat company. Her team is woking on Good Rebel Tech (G.R.T.), a...
DIGITAL COLLECTIBLES: FOH x HANOI HOUSE
July 26, 2022 23:54 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MBWant a free custom soft-serve ice cream pie on your birthday at Hanoi House in NYC? That’s one of the perks that you get when you buy a Hanoi House digital collectible at FOH. NFTs and digital collectibles are the hot trend in the food tech space offering restaurants a way to create a community of supporters with fun perks and generate passive income. FOH is a new platform collaborating with restaurants to mint and sell, with 80% of the profits going back to the restaurants. On this episode ...
Bread Alone’s Net-Zero Energy Bakery
July 14, 2022 21:34 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBWe care deeply about where our food comes from, considering the carbon-footprint of how our food is transported. But how about how it's produced? Is the production facility your food is made in net-zero? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Bread Alone Bakery CEO Nels Leader about the multi-year process of converting their original Boiceville facility into the first commercial bakery in the U.S. to operate on 100% renewable energy, without fossil fuels. Photo Court...
EatOkra the App + Wefunder
June 21, 2022 23:39 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBIn 2016, Janique Edwards moved to Brooklyn and wanted to find black-owned restaurants in her new neighborhood. Janique and Anthony (then boyfriend, now husband) had the idea to create the EatOkra app and launched the first version in 2017. Today they have more that 450,000+ downloads, 9,000+ listings, and a market place. On this episode, Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with returning guest Anthony Edwards Jr, Co-Founder, CEO and CTO, and Jason Wallace, Director of Business Solutions, a...
Haddie’s Bay Club NFTs: From Seaverse to Metaverse
June 14, 2022 17:34 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBIn November 2021, an ultra-rare cotton candy colored lobster was discovered off the coast of Portland, Maine. Named Haddie, she quickly went viral and became an overnight sensation, that launched the Haddie’s Bay Club in the metaverse. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Mark Murrell, CEO of Get Maine Lobster, about the collection of 7777 Haddie the Lobster NFTs and the growing IRL community around this ultra-rare lobster. Photo Courtesy of Get Maine Lobster. Her...
Silvopasture Tech Stack on the All for One for All Farm
May 24, 2022 19:24 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBTechnology is simply the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. We typically think of a “tech stack” as a set of digital technologies stacked together to build an application or run a business. Silvopasture regenerative farming use multiple farming styles that integrate together to create one well-balanced eco-system. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Ariane Daguin, founder and CEO of D’Artangnan, and her daughter Alix Daguin, principal at Du...
Learn to Cook on TikTok With Eitan Bernath
May 10, 2022 17:12 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBIs TikTok the new cooking school? If you’re one of Eitan Bernath’s 2.2 million TikTok followers, the answer is yes. A self-taught cook and creator, Eitan’s allure is his high-energy cooking style and easy-to-make recipes that have garnered an international following of more than six million across his social media platforms with billions of views. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Eitan Bernath, CEO of Eitan Productions, about how he used his social media instinc...
CEO MOM With Alice Cheng of Culinary Agents
May 03, 2022 19:06 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBCEO Mom. Chef Mom. Do these titles sound impossible or attainable? Now that we’re in the great resignation, and family life has shifted into the home, employers are being forced to offer better work-life balance to attract staff. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with returning guest Alice Cheng, CEO and Founder of Culinary Agents, about being a CEO Mom and how the hospitality industry is changing to accommodate parents and families in order to stay competitive and re...
From Coconut to Cosmic Bliss: Adding Dairy to a Vegan Business
April 12, 2022 23:13 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBAt a time when most brands are doing the opposite, Coconut Bliss is changing its name to Cosmic Bliss and expanding beyond its organic, plant-based roots into the first organic, sustainably-sourced, humane, grass-fed dairy ice cream. Amidst the current climate of plant-based foods for environmental and health goals, it’s notable that 97% percent of ice cream sold in the U.S. is dairy. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Jason Karp, Founder and Chief Executive Offic...
Farmer's Fridge Vending Machines
March 30, 2022 01:48 - 44 minutes - 40.7 MBReportedly 100 million people visit a vending machine every day in America. Farmer’s Fridge vending machines are designed to make finding fresh healthy meals as easy as finding a candy bar. What started in 2013 with a single machine in a Chicago Food Court, has grown to more than 400 fridges in airports, hospitals, office buildings, and universities. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Farmer’s Fridge founder and CEO, Luke Saunders, about how critical algorithms an...
CookUnity with Chef Emily Peck
March 15, 2022 20:53 - 37 minutes - 33.9 MBHungry for a chef-cooked meal, but reluctant to leave your apartment? There’s an app for that. CookUnity is a national meal-delivery service, offering dishes cooked by a collective of more than 50 chefs. What started in 2015 with the idea of becoming “Spotify for food” has evolved into a new alternative to traditional restaurant work for chefs, and another meal-delivery option for consumers. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Emily Peck, a plant-based chef, and nu...
Shipping Container Tech: Robots, Farms, and Radio
March 02, 2022 01:46 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBDid you know Heritage Radio Network studio is made of two repurposed shipping containers inside Roberta’s Pizza in Bushwick Brooklyn? To celebrate the return to in-studio recording were doing an episode on shipping container technology. Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with HRN Head of Audio Production Matt Patterson about the studio. Talking about portable hydroponic container farms is Jake Felser, CTO of Freight Farms, and Udi Shamai, Co-Founder and CEO of Hyper Robotics, talks about ...
Own Your Guest Data & Marketing with Bikky & Avocadoria
February 18, 2022 22:02 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBTechnology, 3rd-party delivery apps, and staying at home have shifted the restaurant hospitality experience from on-premise to online at-home. How can data and drip marketing help restaurants create and grow real-life relationships with their guests? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Abhinav Kapur, CEO and Founder of Bikky, the restaurant data and market company, and Alessandro Biggy, founder of the fast-casual Avocaderia restaurant group, about how an integrated...
How to Buy an NFT
February 09, 2022 00:34 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThe food tech trend with the greatest velocity right now is NFTs: non-fungible tokens purchased with Ethereum, minted on the blockchain. If you’re looking to get into cryptocurrencies, but aren’t sure what a hot wallet is and how mint is involved, this show is for you. On this episode, Grant Friedman, Director of the Private Client Desk at Coin Cloud, takes Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi through the process of creating a crypto wallet and buying a Dumpling Mafia NFT. Coin Cloud is the indus...
BentoBox Restaurant Tech Trends Report with Krystle Mobayeni
January 26, 2022 03:48 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBIn 2021 restaurants had to navigate supply chain disruptions, the COVID-19 Delta variant, and unprecedented worker shortages slowing recovery. How did the industry fare and what is on the horizon for 2022? On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with BentoBox Founder and CEO Krystle Mobayeni about their 2021 restaurant trends report. It analyzes data from 7,500+ restaurants worldwide, on how people are dining out, what they’re ordering and how restaurants are using tech to ...
Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink Class of 2022
January 21, 2022 00:36 - 48 minutes - 44 MBMeet the Forbes 30 Under 30 Food & Drink class of 2022. The annual list identifies and applauds young innovators and entrepreneurs who are redefining the way we eat, drink and think about food. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Forbes Under 30 editors Chloe Sorvino and Kristin Stoller. Two of this year’s winners talk about the impact of being on the list: Amy Zhou, Director of Operations at Michelin-starred COTE in New York City and Miami and Co-Founder at Wine E...
Dumpling Mafia NFT x Coin Cloud
January 13, 2022 23:53 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBThe food tech trend with the greatest velocity right now are culinary and chef-driven NFTs: non-fungible tokens purchased with ethereum, minted in the blockchain. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Chef Shirley Chung of Ms. Chi Café, writer Andy Wang and Grant Friedman, Director of the Private Client Desk for Coin Cloud, about the creation of their digital NFTs and their real world food events. The Dumpling Mafia was born in 2017 when Chef Shirley, with friends An...
2022 Predictions (Spoiler Alert: The Future is Plant-Based)
December 15, 2021 01:10 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBFollowing Tech Bites tradition, the last show of the year is a look into the future of trends and innovations. What do some of the top women in food tech see for 2022? Tech Bites host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Dr. Jasmin Hume, Founder and CEO of Shiru, a biotechnology company addressing a critical need in the food industry by providing access to more sustainable and healthy ingredients. Shiru is fueled by data-driven discovery, combining machine learning and fermentation to uncover function...
2021 Year in Review with Rachael Nemeth of Opus Training
December 07, 2021 20:29 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBOn Tech Bites, the penultimate episode of the year is always a look back. On this episode of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks about 2021 with returning guest Rachael Nemeth, co-founder, and CEO of Opus Training, a mobile-first learning platform that delivers chat-based micro-training to address the 80% of the workforce that does not sit at a desk with a computer. In a business where the immediacy of information is critical to success, Opus Training has a unique perspective on how the h...
Put the Giving Into Thanksgiving With the Neighborhood’s Table
November 17, 2021 14:26 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBOn this holiday episode of Tech Bites, we’ll look at paying it forward to building better communities with Studio ATAO’s The Neighborhood’s Table. Host Jenifer Leuzzi talks with Edric Huang, Head of Programming at Studio ATAO, about combating gentrification through intentional hospitality and their current fundraising project. Make it a real black Friday this year and keep your favorite non-profit organization out of the red. Check out these episodes of Tech Bites to discover some new organi...
Animal-Free Food Future with NotCo & Shiok Meats
November 09, 2021 18:38 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBCan you imagine a future where people don’t eat food produced from live animals? How many generations would it take for dairy-based ice cream to exist only in historical cookbooks as a taste of the past? On Episode 249 of Tech Bites, host Jennifer Leuzzi talks with Matias Muchnick, the CEO and founder of NotCo, the five-year-old international plant-based food tech company founded in Chile that is now the fastest-growing food tech brand in Latin America, and Dr. Sandhya Sriram, the Group CEO ...