2. Digital + Food : The top 10 innovative start-ups
01. Evernote Food
02. Hungry Now
03. Food Genius
04. ElaCarte
05. InstaCart
06. Grub With Us
07. Love With Food
08. Foodily
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09. HealthyOut
10. Caviar
3. Digital + Food : The top 10 innovative start-ups
01# Evernote Food
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Certain among you may already know about
Evernote, the reminder app, that reminds you
about everything. But do you know
about Evernote Food ? This app allows you to
discover new recipes, find good restaurants,
register notes about restaurants that you have
tested or even create a real book of your
recipes.
The advantages of Evernote Food : more than
a discovery tool, Evernote Food allows one to
plan and memorise your diverse gastronmic
culinary adventures, whether they have
already happened or are about to take place.
Discover, capture, save, select
4. The mobile app "Hungry Now" detects fast
food chains that are in your immediate
proximity.
The first usage allows you to set your
preferences to your favourtie brands, then you
press the Hungry Now ! button. All the
restaurants around you are pinpointed on a
map of which the nearest ones are clearly
The advantages of this app: the integrated
step by step navigation system means that
you do not need to use your map app on your
phone. The app has been very successful at the
Apple Store and on Windows Phone, and has
already been dowloaded in more than 95
countries.
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Geolocate fast-food chains
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5. Digital + Food : The top 10 innovative start-ups
03#Food Genius
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Food Genius unearths food trends and lists
the details of menus in more than 22 million
restaurants in the United States.
Their aim: to survey what americans eat in
order to help professionals in the sector make
better bussiness improving decisions and to
predict the culinary trends of tomorrow.
The advantages Food Genius : the
professionals can find out what ingredients are
most used in a certain dish and what the most
popular dishes are in a precise region. An
essential tool when it comes to creating a new
dish for example!
The Big data providing service on food trends
6. IN the US, ElaCarte proposes to improve the
in-store experience. Installed on the tables,
the ElaCarte tablets allow you to reserve, pay
and even play.
The advantages of these tablets: A way of
managing the queue for a table and to
facilitate the approach of clients whilst
proposing entertainment with content relevant
to the image of the restaurant.
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A better in-store experience
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7. InstaCart proposes to its clients rapid delivery
of merchandise from supermarkets situated
in San Francsisco.
Clients order (online throught the app)
merchandise available in the supermarkets of
San Francisco like Safeway, Trader Joe, Whole
Foods or Costco. Then, instead of going
through a central buyer, Instacart mobilises its
buying team situated arounf the city.
Therefore, clients' shopping lists are regrouped
for delivery in less than an hour. The fees of
the service reach no more than $99 a year and
delivery is free if the bill is more than $ 35.
The advantages of the site: nearby products of
excellent quality and a quick high-end service.
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Your groceries delivered in an instant
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8. GrubWithUs allows you to have either lunch
or dinner with people you do not know but
share your interests.
By subscribing toGrubwithus, the user choses
their city and selects from a list, which dinner
they wish to meet new people. The «Grubber»
can choose from a variety of social groups:
singles, young newcomers to the city,
entrepreneurs… The Grubber can also organise
group meals.
The advantages of the network: the digital
aspect gives a thumbs up to real life by
connecting people with common interests.
With GrubWithUs, you can find a job, a new
housemate or a future best friend, who
knows…
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Lunch with people who share your interests
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9. With the same principal as all other boxes,
Love With Food delivers a sample of gourmet
products to your home every month. The start
up's aim is to help its subscribers discover new
high-end sample products.
The advantages of this box : For every product
bought, LWF donates a meal to local a food
bank to help the poor. In less than 18 months,
LWF has donated over 100 000 meals to food
banks across the United States.
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The food box for foodies
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07# Love With Food
10. Foodily is a social network that permits its
users to share good ideas and recipes on the
web.
The site notably offers the possibility to search
for recipes by category whilst informing the
user of the nutritional values.
The advantages of this social network: The
ergonomics and the style of the site are fluid
and attractive and were rewarded at the
Webby Awards 2012.
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Share and discover recipes
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11. HealthyOut is a site that plans meals
according to your dietry requirements and
delivers them to your house. After having
registered your dietry requirements,
HealthyOut puts together daily menus which
they deliver to your house thanks to their
partner restaurants.
The advantages of the site: the start up
addresses itself to a niche clientele : the
bussinessman who does not have time to cook
well balanced meals and wants a « personal
nutritionist ». For the moment, HealthyOut
only covers New York.
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Go to a restaurant even with specific dietry requirements
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12. Caviar allows you to order dishes from starred
restaurants without having to pay for delivery.
Caviar allows you to geolocate your order in
real time. For the moment, the service is only
available in San Francisco and delivery is
charged at a forfit price $9.99.
The advantages of the site: instantaneity and
luxury treatment are the orders of the day at
this new service.
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Dishes from the best restaurants at home
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10# Caviar
