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ZipList (Igrocery list and recipe service) not only had to face off against a growing number of recipe aggregation and shopping services, like Paprika, Yummly and Grocery IQ, but also found it couldn't compete for attention against entrenched cooking brands on the Web, such as the Food Network and Epicurious. So ZipList changed tack. Last summer it began partnering with big food brands MarthaStewart.com and the Daily Meal, as well as small food blogs that began integrating the ZipList recipe box directly into their sites. The results were impressive: In nine months it signed up 120 big-name food sites and 6,500 small blogs, which in turn generated 1 million customer accounts for its digital recipe and shopping list service.

"A new report confirms the significant and growing influence of the Internet and social media in the shopping decisions of U.S. moms. In preparing to go shopping, mothers are 43% more likely to go online to gather coupons and 38% more likely to look at store Web sites than food shoppers as a whole, according to Packaged Facts' "Moms as Food Shoppers: Grocery Store and Supercenter Patterns and Trends" report.  Further, moms are nearly twice as likely as food shoppers overall to have used social media to plan their most recent grocery shopping trip (20% versus 11%). And in addition to consulting blogs prior to shopping, they are increasingly using mobile apps to ensure that they're getting the best deals while shopping. "

Here's how it works: businesses, event hosts or any other group that wants to make a donation snaps a photo of their extra food - Copia takes anything, cooked or uncooked, packaged or unpackaged - and schedule a pickup time in the app or website. The app then automatically matches the donation to a nearby organization and a cape-wearing driver (Copia calls them "food heroes") who completes the pickup and delivery.

Users can submit a photo of the meal they're enjoying, and someone from CT Food will send them the recipe with an ingredient list and how to make it f0r themselves.

DoorDash started off as a restaurant delivery company - but, like many on-demand delivery companies, its ambitions are certainly much higher than that. And it's taking one step beyond food delivery today by adding the ability to purchase alcohol through DoorDash.

French fast-food chain Quick brings that fantasy to life, celebrating the 3-D release of The Phantom Menace with menu items inspired by characters from George Lucas's iconic film franchise. The Darth Vader and Darth Maul burgers boast blackened or ruddy buns.

network where consumers can buy excess food from restaurants for cheap

"See Food: Why Robots Are Producing More of What You Eat"

put a smart ID tag on your pet -- the device recognizes the tag and provides appropriate serving of food associated to that tag and the door to the food only opens when the tag is scanned.

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