These 8 Food Tech Startups Serve Up The Latest In Culinary Innovation

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Nir Cohen Paraira is Director of Marketing at GKI Group, a technology and innovations company “bringing even the craziest and most ambitious ideas to life.”

The food and beverage industry is filled with tough and ruthless competition. Many managers and owners, from small boutique cafes to large hotel food chains, have been looking for new ways to reinvent, market, and spice up their food and drinks menus, while delivering a better dining experience for guests.

For many people, the forgotten heroes of the pandemic were Israeli food delivery services. Think companies like 10Bis (acquired by Takeaway.com) and Haat, which specializes in food delivery to remote areas and Arab villages. Without these services (and global companies like Wolt), many restaurants would have never survived the quarantine.

Food tech startups and innovations can be beneficial for both your business and its customers. Combining AI, cloud services, data collection robotics, and automation makes one hell of a successful recipe for your business’s success.In the past few years, many startups and technology companies have also been founded specifically to solve the industry’s most burning food issues from sugar reduction to clean meat.

The food tech ecosystem in Israel has become a vibrant and forward-thinking industry fostering cooperation and bringing in investments from leading food corporations such as Coca-Cola and Tyson Foods, according to Invest In Israel, an integrative body within Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry.

So, are you ready to order? Here are eight Israeli food tech startups serving up the latest in culinary innovation.

Israeli Food Tech Startups For An Upgraded Customer Experience

Hyper Food Robotics – The First Autonomous Fast Food Store

Co-Founded by the owner of Pizza Hut Israel, a guy who knows a thing or two about fast-food chains, Hyper Food Robotics is aiming to bring the automation revolution into the field.

While restaurants these days are struggling to find cooks, sellers, and maintenance teams, Hyper is solving that problem with an autonomous fast food store. The store is actually a robotic container divided into four areas: storage, production, packing, and collecting – ready to be picked by a customer or a delivery service. The store can be customized to make pizzas, burgers, salads, and more.

Cecilia.ai – Robotic and Interactive Cocktail Maker

A smart and interactive robotic bartender that can be found in hotels, cruise ships, lounges, and more to expand the menu with delicious, automatically-made cocktails.

Powered by conversational AI and voice recognition abilities, Cecilia also chats with customers, guides them through the menu, tells jokes, promotes your business, and provides an unforgettable experience to new and returning visitors.

This robotic bartending unit is easy to install and customize, has secured payments, takes a small footprint, and can operate 24/7 to make every hour a Happy Hour.

Ripples – Print on Beverages

You probably ran into Ripples’ product at least once in your life, when you went to a cafe or attended an event, but you just had no idea. The Ripple Maker is a machine capable of “printing” on top of foamy beverages like coffee and beer. Combined with the software, you can easily customize and serve every drink with your logo, promote your business, or just wish customers good morning. Sure, it will disappear after the first sip, but it will surely be remembered and published on social media. A terrific way for restaurants, bars, and nightclubs to increase sales and customer loyalty.

Talking Bread – Turn your bread into a media

If the printing on top of beverages doesn’t speak to you — maybe Talking Bread will.

Talking Bread is a food tech startup with a patented solution for imprinting on top of baked and pre-baked products using nothing but heat. You can add your logo or a painting to buns, loaves, pita bread, burgers, and every other type of bad carb that brings customers joy.

Israeli Food Tech Startups For Kitchen Management

Tabit – A 360° MobileFirst Restaurant Solution

If you’re in the F&B business in Israel, you’re probably familiar with Tabit’s technology, currently “taking over” every restaurant and cafe and improving them. If you see waiters and waitresses taking your order with tablets – that’s probably Tabit right there.

Tabit’s platform helps restaurant managers with a cloud-based solution that handles all of the operations: ordering, payments, online orders, delivery systems, reservations, guest management, analytics, and more. All that’s left for you to do is just make sure that the food and service are outstanding.

Tastewise – Use data to know what’s trending  

Ever wondered what foods, drinks, and recipes are trending these days without watching videos on TikTok or exploring Michelin-starred restaurants?

With Tastewise, you can harness the power of AI to turn billions of data points from recipes, menus, and social media into actionable insights that will help you grow your brand. Ease out, save precious time on research, let the platform find the next best flavor or dish, and discover marketing strategies to learn from competitors and create better content. Although the company’s main clients are consumer packaged goods (CPGs), they also aim for kitchens that are constantly seeking food innovations and beating the competition.

Weissbeerger – Know what your clients are drinking

Acquired by the world’s largest brewer AB InBev in 2018, Weissbeerger is still here under the radar to provide the food and beverage industry with their leading data analytics solution. Using their smart taps and aggregated data, bar owners can learn about the customers’ consumption patterns and optimize their sales and operations. Weissbeerger developed a smart B2B marketplace called BEES, which helps pubs, restaurants, convenience stores, and other retailers to purchase goods and stock from one single online shop. BEES is selling thousands of products, not just from AB InBev, and it has become one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in the world.

EatEat – Reinventing the menu experience

Founded in 2020, EatEat’s mission is to help restaurants upgrade their restaurant offerings and menu with a little help from AI. The company offers its Menu.ID product to kitchens for free to help them easily manage online menus across multiple platforms with just one click. Smart.Menu, also offered for free, can be integrated in any website to aid diners by providing them with a personalized experience and learning from their preferences to match them with the perfect meal.

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