What’s Cooking with Food & Beverage Innovation?

Dining out, room service, fine dining, continental breakfasts, a fancy cocktail, and food and drink in general have always been a part of the travel experience and hospitality offering. Today more than ever before Michelin Stars, hidden gems, street eats, food tours, cooking classes, Agriturismo, and gastropubs are the central aspirations of an enormous percentage of the traveling public.

As we learned from 100’s of millions of travelers at Utrip, for most Americans, and everyone else too, most trips revolved around food, drink, and relaxation. But even though we all know this, for some reason the arena of F&B Tech and Restaurant Innovation are often absent from major conversations, conferences, and events within our industry.

To begin to address this hole in our conversation, and to learn from the incredible innovation sweeping through this industry, we are excited to dig into all things Tech and Innovation in the restaurant space.

To kick off this conversation, we decided to slightly change our format and split this episode into two conversations. First, we will be joined by David Peller. David lives and works in Singapore, a region much more focused on restaurant tech than the American startup market. In his various roles, David invests in, sits on boards of, and helps lead both restaurants and restaurant concepts themselves and many technology companies innovating in this space. So he is the perfect person to give us a high-level overview of the scope and breadth of the innovation landscape in F&B on both the restaurant side and Technology company front.

And after that we will dive into the deep end with a conversation with 3 innovators working directly within these themes to learn what's actually going on, how meaningful it really is, and what lessons the rest of us can take.

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Gilad Berenstein — host
Cara Whitehill — host
David Peller — guest
Wiggs Civitillo — guest
Ursula Siker — guest
Marc Zornes — guest

Go Deeper

• 2025 Food Industry Tech Trends: AI and Supply Chain Solutions Lead Investment Priorities - Food Industry Executive
• Embracing Advanced Tech In The Food And Beverage Industry, Part 2: AI And Automation - Forbes
• 6 Technologies That Boost F&B Revenue - HospitalityNet
• AI M&A Wave Coming in the Food and Beverage Sector - Mergers & Acquisitions
• What are the barriers to innovation in food and beverage? - Food Navigator