155- Building the infrastructure of food with Mott Smith of Amped Kitchens

Mott Smith is the Co-Owner & CEO of Amped Kitchens, a commercial kitchen landlord in Los Angeles and Chicago that is home to large and small brands alike. In this episode we’ll talk about the ghost and commercial kitchen landscape, how they compare to other asset classes, and key drivers of success for emerging CPG businesses.Join the HNGRY Trends community to tune in live

Whitney Pegden is the General Manager of Blue Apron at Wonder. In this episode we chat about how Blue Apron has evolved from meal kits towards new categories like “Assemble and Bake” meals, the various synergies unlocked with parent company Wonder, and the future of personalization.

Sagar Mehta is the Chief Technology Officer of OpenTable, a leading online restaurant reservations platform with over 60k venues worldwide. In this episode, we chat about the current restaurant reservations landscape, how the marketplace is uniquely leveraging generative AI, and the new types of products it’s building to help restaurants grow within their four walls.Subscribe to the HNGRY newsletter

Randall Hom is the Co-Founder of Hostie, an AI-based customer experience platform that centralizes a restaurant’s calls, texts, and emails into a single system. In this episode, we’ll talk about how Hostie is saving restaurants countless hours in redundant phone calls, how it integrates with reservation and POS companies to automate 80% of inquiries, and the impact of AI on the restaurant workforce.Subscribe to the HNGRY newsletterCheck out Hostie

This is a special edition of HNGRY Live, conversations with the paid HNGRY Trends community. Last week, the group came together for an hour-long discussion about personalizing menu data to individuals' dietary and allergy profiles, and eventually our nutritional needs.Join in on future live discussions by becoming a paid HNGRY Trends memberCheck out Foodini

Jonathan Wolf is the Co-Founder & CEO of ZOE, a personalized nutrition platform running the world’s largest nutritional study through its app and clinical trials. In this episode, we’ll chat about how ZOE applies machine learning to health data to predict what we should eat, the power of the gut microbiome, and ZOE’s new strategy to tap into a wider audience of participants.Subscribe to HNGRY TrendsJoin ZOE

This is a special edition of HNGRY Live, conversations with the paid HNGRY Trends community. Last week, the group came together for an hour long discussion about DoorDash's latest acquisitions of UK-based Deliveroo for its international expansion and SevenRooms for its 1p commerce platform.Join in on future live discussions by becoming a paid HNGRY Trends member.Learn more & join HNGRY Trends

Young Stowe is the Co-Founder & CEO of Unified Ferments, a beverage company leveraging fermentation to express the world’s best teas. In this episode, we’ll talk about how Unified Ferments is combining culinary wisdom of age-old tea production and fermentation, its parallels to fine wine, and the rise of non-alcoholic beverages in retail and foodservice.Subscribe to the HNGRY NewsletterUnified Ferments

Tom Shea is the co-founder & CEO of Adgile Media Group, an out of home media startup transforming how consumer brands advertise on moving trucks. In this episode, we’ll talk about Adgile’s innovative use of geofencing, how it attributes offline ad impressions, and the future impact of AI on growth marketing.Subscribe to the HNGRY newsletterAdgile Media Group website

Delanie Thurlow is an account executive leading US sales at Grounded Packaging, a sustainable packaging design and consulting firm helping CPG brands meet their environmental goals. In this episode, we’ll talk about the current state of recycling and composting, the nuances of different packaging approaches, and the future of the circular economy.Subscribe to the HNGRY NewsletterGrounded Packaging website