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It's episode 100 of Tech Bites ! To celebrate we've invited special guest host Kerry Diamond of Radio Cherry Bombe to interview Tech Bites 's Jennifer Leuzzi on the past 99 shows, things you learn on the radio and pizza. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Women in tech are making headlines everyday on everything from innovation to publishing and profit. On this episode we talk with the women CEO’s and company founders about the SOTU of the food tech world. In-studio guests include: Rachna Govani, CEO/Co-founder Foodstand, the app that helps you build and maintain good eating habits. Meghan Carreau, CEO/Founder TuckrBox, the farm-to-lunchbox meal de...

The winners of the 8th annual NYC Big Apps competition were announced this week. The civic tech competition had 150 app start-ups trying to solve challenges facing NYC over three categories; transportation, knowledge and community. In-studo guests Ryan Baxter and Akil Bello, of winning app PassNYC, and Matt Bishop of Open City Labs, discuss the competition and how they're solving real city live pr...

Are you a cook or FOH staff looking for a job, but tired of all the job boards with hundreds of listings but no replies? Are you a restaurant manager with staffing needs that change hour-to-hour with call-sick and no-shows? The new hiring app, Jitjatjo may be your solution. In this episode of Tech Bites, Justin Melia of Jitjatjo interviews NYC chefs Tim Dornon and Alex Leonard, as potential candid...

Every episode of Tech Bites ends with a question. We ask guests for an actionable piece of advice we can all use in real life. Get advice here on everything from running a successful start-up to being a networking super-star to making a great dinner on the fly. Featuring: Episode 6: Ryan Sutton, restaurant critic Eater. Episode 12: Amanda Hesser, CEO and CO-founder Food52. Episode 45: Mitchell Dav...

Get legal advice for the digital age. How do chefs, food companies and people protect their intellectual property and use social media for marketing? One day a chef post a photo of a dish on Instagram. Then next day, another restaurant on the other side of the world is selling the same thing. On this episode, David Postolski Esq. joins us in studio to talk about best practices for protecting intel...

Who doesn't want some free advice on taxes and getting your business receipts in order? In-studio guests ChouxBox founders Tony Aiazzi and Xavier Mariezcurrena, and Dave Oz, CPA and co-founder of Chelsea Hospitality Group, talk about how POP systems and tech platforms can help you get organized for tax day and all-year round. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy N...

If you're increasingly concerned about your online privacy, tune in to this episode for some easy ways to protect yourself online - and in the real world. In-studio guest Kendra Pierre-Louis, a writer at Popular Science Magazine, discusses this new business and tech world that has commercialized our private data, and how to keep your private information private. Unless of course - it's already out...

Calling food start-ups and entrepreneurs. If you've got a great product but don't know how to turn it into a viable go-to-market plan, this episodes of Food Business Bootcamp is for you. Learn how to structure your business plan with the right data points to drive product development, scalability and investment strategy. In-studio guests are: Liz Vaknin, cofounder of Our Name Is Farm, a data-drive...

Spring cleaning isn't just for your closet, it's for your tech life and your personal headspace. Every year, we feature a spring detox, digital disconnect and mental refresh episode with Paul Kemawikasit Alexander, the NYC based acupuncturist and energy alchemist. The PK Alexander Method and The Way of Inspiration is a unique 10-part series that incorporates breathing and moment exercises to culti...

How do software and data make your dinner better? Sixteen years ago, entrepreneur Damian Mogavero brought together an unlikely mix of experts—chefs and code writers—to create a pioneering software company whose goal was to empower restaurateurs, through the use of data, to elevate and enhance the guest experience. Today, his data gathering programs are used by such renown chefs as Danny Meyer, Tom...

Have you had the juicy meaty burger made without any meat? Impossible? No. The all-natural, plant-based Impossible Burger is real and it’s coming to a burger chain near you. The Impossible Burger is earning great reviews and fans amongst chefs and consumers, their environmentally friendly, plant-based meat substitute. One of the most important questions for any food tech company is – how do you sc...

In this episode, we bring Tech Bites engineer David Tatasciore out of the control room and into the studio to talk about his latest project, What's the Story? – a fictional comedy podcast about storytelling and journalism for the "post-truth era." Launched in January of 2017, it follows the story of Ray Elliott, who quits his job as a fact-checker in order to stop being a professional story ruiner...

On Get Mentored! We help food tech start-up PieShell get their marketing and PR game on point. PieShell focuses on crowdfunding online for the food and beverage industry. In order to move PieShell to the next level, CEO/founder Cheryl Clements needs to grow two critical user groups: companies raising funds and people contributing funds. Today's mentor is Steven Hall, founder of Hall PR, a New York...

Would you like a side of data with your salad? How do restaurants grow their delivery revenue and get a piece of the 30-billion dollar US food delivery market? The obvious answer is to get delicious food to their customers as quick as possible. The less obvious answer is collecting data and using metrics to build a faster, stronger delivery system. On this episode we talk with in-studio guests fro...

We all want to make our food lives a little bit better right? More environmentally and economically friendly, tastier and functional. It's hard to always get everything right- but you can do somethings most of the time and be healthyish. That's the basic idea around Healthyish, the online platform from Bon Appetit launching this week. Healithyish editor Amanda Shapiro joins us in studio to talk ab...

What’s for dinner? Do you want someone to help you answer that question with menus, recipes and shopping lists? On this episode we look at EatLove.is, a new online subscription service for personalized meal planning. The information-based service is the latest trend in home cooking and meal strategy, poised to disrupt the meal kit business. Critics of companies like Blue Apron and Purple Carrot; s...

Would you believe me if I told you Silicon Valley techies love paper? Look around any design office or tech conference and you will see people everywhere scribbling and doodling in Moleskin paper notebooks. In spite of all the digital productivity and drawing programs and gadgets, the immediacy of pen to paper is still very satisfying to the creative process. In the his new book The Revenge of Ana...

What’s the top food trend coming in 2017? We all want to know. Tune in to Episode 82 of Tech Bites with in-studio guest Kate Krader, Food Editor of Bloomberg Pursuits and gastronomical oracle. We’ll ask her what food and tech trends she sees coming next year, and which ones will fade away. Don’t miss the last episode of 2016 – for the first look at 2017. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/pri...

What were the big food tech stories of 2016? Find out what recipes and stories got the most clicks at the New York Times , from Melissa Clark, Dining Section columnist and cookbook author. Thinking about making a New Year’s resolution to go on a social media diet? Jacqueline Raposo, host of Love Bites , has already tried it out and loved it. She’ll share her plan to get off the digital and back in...

Adam Platt, restaurant critic for New York Magazine , joins us in this episode to talk about how the internet has dramatically changed the restaurant world, starting with his first review for New York Magazine of Annisa in 2000 to the rise of the blogs, and his predictions for 2017. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...

The home meal-kit delivery market in the US has grown to 1.5 billion dollars a year. The current category leader is Blue Apron. Opened in 2012, the company delivers 8 million meals a month and has a valuation of 3 billion dollars. The category began with focus with specialty meals like vegan and organic options. The latest home cooking kits are for the parts of the meal that most companies have no...

Start-up company Spacious transforms empty restaurants into subscription-based co-working and meeting spaces, for the new digitally empowered, indy workforce. On this episode of Tech Bites, Spacious CEO/Co-founder Preston Pesek joins us in studio to pitch the concept to Betony Restaurant GM Eamon Rockey. Let’s see if he closes on a new customer. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...

Laurie Woolever returns to Tech Bites to talk about Appetites: A Cookbook , she co-authored with Anthony Bourdain. A lot has changed in the publishing world with digital tech, since her first book project with the traveling chef in 2004, Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook . In addition to working under the catch-all-title of Anthony “gatekeeper,” Laurie is a freelance writer and editor. She ha...

People have a taste for discovering new foods, whether via a chef’s Instagram feed, a trip to a foreign land, or a mystery box in the mail. To satisfy this craving, more than 30% of Americans are buying food online. Try The World, is a good example of the international food subscription box service category. Every month a box of unique items from a specific country arrives with information, menu a...