Tech Bites

Oh snap! It’s Snapchat boot camp to help you get your snaps, chats and stories on point. We’ll walk-through setting-up the Tech Bites account on the air with in-studio guest Samantha Wasser. She’s co-founder and creative director of by CHLOE, the fast-casual vegan chain launched in 2014 with Chef Chloe Coscarelli. Follow her @bychefchloe. Hungry to learn more? Check out Tech Bites Episode 32– Inst...

Let’s be honest about how we use our technology. While it’s super philanthropic and savvy to say food tech is all about saving the people and the plant with some disruptive start-up business, more than 15% of people are using it to find dates online* and that number is on the rise. One in five online daters – have asked someone for help with their profile. This episode of Tech Bites x Love Bites i...

A special episode of Tech Bites featuring some of the best American heritage foods. Donny and Beth Drennan, owners of Broadbent Hams, join us from Kentucky. Broadbent’s famously sold a 16-pound ham at auction for $1.6 Million and is a cornerstone of the Momofuku Ssäm Bar ham plate. Broadbent has been in business for more than 100 years and is one of America’s best and oldest hams. One of the count...

What's the best way to get people interested and involved in a better food system? Have them taste a ripe tomato at peak ripeness, picked off the vine. Once you’ve had a homegrown, perfectly ripened, chemical free tomato – how could you eat anything else? Getting people to experience growing their own food, at home or work, or even on water, is the focus of this episode. In-studio guests: Jenny Br...

Does good food equal healthy living? Maybe. The two are related, but not exactly the same thing. If you’re interested in having it all, and really who isn’t? There’s an app for that. The Foodstand App is harnessing the power of their food community to help people make small good changes in eating, for lasting effects on health and life. In this episode Foodstand CEO and co-founder Rachna Govani, u...

What’s up ChouxBox? We first meet Tony Aiazzi and Xavier “X” Mariezcurrena a year ago on Tech Bites Episode 24. The chef and front-of-house guy are founder of a unique “POP” or point-of-purchase inventory system that works with a snap of an iphone camera and overnight data-entry. They are one of the only restaurant tech companies developed by people who have actually worked in restaurants – which...

It’s easy to see how the BlurtBox app is an easy way for customers to give feedback in real time to restaurants. Good or bad, people always have something to say. Are restaurant willing to pay for that information? How valuable are customers opinions served up in a private non-Yelp channel? Find out on this episode of Tech Bites when the BlurtBox crew pitches their services to a restaurant owner l...

Pokémon Go is the hottest app in the world. Period. Launched on July 5, 2016 it is now available in 26 countries with more than 15 million downloads. The augmented reality game has people chasing and capturing Pokémon characters in the real world. Restaurants and business worldwide (like Roberta’s Pizza in Bushwick – home of the Heritage Radio Network Studio) are setting lures and stops to attract...

So you sold your app for $85 million dollars. What do you do next? Why start another app of course. Jakob Jonck, CEO and founder of Feast Kitchen joins us in-studio all the way from Denmark. On this episode of Tech Bites he talks about building and selling apps, his love for cooking and his hope for tech to improve our lives via the food we eat. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

Restaurant staff is a hot topic now. Where are all the good cooks? How do you find them – and keep them? Which pays better – increased minimum wage without tips or the traditional formula? This episode of Tech Bites In-studio guests Patrice Vassell, cook for hire, and Kristen Diver, Director of HR at the Dinex Group, talk from both side of the hiring line to see which digital job boards and online...

How can a single indie coffee shop compete with a giant corporation like Starbucks? By banding together with other indie coffee shops to create an collective of indie coffee shops. At least that’s Elyes Ben M'rad’s idea and inspiration behind the Cream App, a digital platform and app for search, rewards and payment that unites indie shop owners. On this episode, in-studio guest Elyes Ben M'rad wil...

Reserve first came on to the food tech scene in 2014 as way for consumers to "have a better dinning experience" by using the Reserve app. Described as a "digital concierge" the app makes reservations, and holds credit card and tip information to pay the bill. Two years later, the next phase is Reserve for Restaurants . The tech platform is designed to give restaurants greater control over their cu...

Get Bitten on this episode of Tech Bites . Bitten is a unique hybrid company that produces real life events to engage conversations about food and also works as a creative agency. In-studio guest Naz Riahi, founder of Bitten, talks about current trends and issues at the intersection of food, culture and tech from the recent Bitten NYC Conference, and what’s on the horizon for Bitten LA this fall....

In 2015, Millennials drank more wine than any other age demographic. According to a recent Wine Market Council report, they drank 42% of wine consumed last year, somewhere around 159.6 million cases of wine. That’s million cases – with a capital M. This has trigged a marketing shift in the wine industry, towards a more digital strategy. In-studio guests Ali Tuthill, Marketing Director for Long Isl...

So there was this DJ, who spent time touring the world looking for interesting and good things to eat in each city. He did an internship at NASA, then learned software engineering and design, to create the app Phoodie. True story. Phoodie is a social network for foodies, that’s a mash-up of Instagram, Tinder, Pinterest and Yelp. In-studio guest Brooklyn Earick, Founder and CEO of Phoodie, talks ab...

Give your digital life a spring cleaning. Hit the reset button with in-studio guest Paul Kemawikasit Alexander, a New York City based acupuncturist, who has created a unique wellness system based on traditional oriental medicine, martial arts and urban community. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Saxelby Radio Scholars program is a podcast series produced by teenagers from the Food and Finance High School in New York City. Each student recorded, wrote and produced their own radio story about the food topic of their choice. Each story is unique. All the stories are very personal. On this episode of Tech Bites, the scholars join us in-studio, to talk about their experiences producing a radio...

Go beyond the logo into the land of visual identity and digital content. Not sure what digital content and virtual storytelling is all about? and why a restaurant or hotel might need that to be successful in business? In-studio guest Laura O'Reilly, talks about how she founded Wallplay to connect creatives to business and products, along with some easy ways to work on your own brand identity for t...

It’s time for the annual Cherry Bombe Jubilee Conference, the awesome day with awesome food and the most awesome women. In-studio are co-founders Kerry Diamond and Claudia Wu, talking about how they’ll bring the pages of their Cherry Bombe Magazine to life. Want more of these amazing ladies? Check out Radio Cherry Bombe here on HRN every Thursday at 1PM. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

It’s a widely know fact that the restaurant industry does not like the public review forum Yelp. Andrew Johnson, believes his digital recommendation platform RoundTable, will be the anti-Yelp the restaurant industry will embrace. So much so, he’s betting that the industry will create the content he’s selling to consumers. Industry insiders, Luke Boland of La Sirena, and Elise Rosenberg of Colonie...

Need funding for your food tech start-up? If it’s a thoughtful, sustainable, and potentially impactful business – you might be able to get some Slow Money. Today’s in-studio guest is Derek Denckla, impact investor, strategic advisor and serial social entrepreneur. We’ll discuss the mission of Slow Money NYC to connect people to their local food business, to grow successful economies and food suppl...

Today’s restaurant industry is evolving at super-fast pace. How do professionals keep up with wine trends, tech, real estate and new tipping formulas? They take classes and find mentors at Journee, the new community for restaurant professionals. In-studio guest Sam Appel, Journee’s director of community and programming, talks about how the dollar-a-day membership works on-line and in real life, an...

Geek out with Tasting Table’s Best of Food + Tech, the month-long focus on everything in the culinary – cyber space. In-studio guest Karen Palmer, Editorial Director at Tasting Table, talks about digital media on digital tech, how restaurants are cyber-stalking their customers (to give them better service of course) and best in apps. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California P...

Now that you’ve got a table – what’s next? Resy launched in 2014 with an initial offering of paid reservations that provoked heated debate in the industry. Two years later – Resy is poised to take on Opentable and become the next gen of restaurant OS and POS. If you don’t know what OS – POS – and PCI Compliant mean, Resy CEO/Co-Founder Ben Leventhal is in-studio to walk you through the Resy 2.0 la...

The Foodstand app is the good food community that lives in your pocket. It brings together eaters and good food makers, with recipes, photos, information, hoping that people will make better food choices – for themselves and the world. The Foodstand Spotlight is a real-life monthly showcase for food tech start-ups, innovators and entrepreneurs, to pitch their ideas to a diverse audience and panel...