Tastewise launches AI-powered food intelligence platform

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Platform provides up-to-the-minute industry insights, predictions, and emerging food trends based on analysis of billions of social media posts and photos, restaurant menus, reviews, and recipes

Tastewise, an Israel based AI-powered food intelligence startup  emerges from stealth to serve real-time analytics on the constantly changing tastes and dietary needs of consumers.

The Tastewise platform leverages machine learning to calculate future culinary trends, enabling restaurants to efficiently adapt, serve and market their offerings at a local and national level. The platform analyzes billions of critical food and beverage consumer touchpoints to discover people’s real-life interactions with food including over 1 billion food photos shared every month, 153K restaurant menus across the US and over 1M online recipes. Tastewise is already working with restaurants and food brands to pinpoint market opportunities, consumer likes and dislikes, new ingredients and to quickly meet trending needs.

Founded by former Google executive Alon Chen and Eyal Gaon, Tastewise enters the food scene just as the $5.75 trillion industry undergoes a seismic shift. Historically a slow-moving sector, the internet, social media, and e-commerce have played major roles in accelerating and democratizing the industry. Today’s heightened culinary consciousness has significantly impacted the global diet, its associated trends and superfood cycles, making the industry more dynamic than ever before. As consumers dictate tastes, restaurants and food brands are struggling to identify new trends and meet customers’ ever-changing appetites. Whereas restaurant menus were changed every couple of years, new dishes now replace existing ones every couple of months.

“By collaborating with Tastewise, we’ve been able to transform our strategy and decision making with real-time industry data and predictive analytics,” says Guy Heksch, Global Vice President of Marriott International-owned Pure Grey Culinary Concepts Hospitality Group. “Diving far deeper than simply understanding consumer preferences, their insights help us select target audiences, catch micro-trends as they sweep from neighborhood to state level and design menus to suit our guests’ tastes, even pinpointing exactly what it takes to concoct a sensational cocktail. Tastewise brings science to the art of creating innovative food experiences and propels us to act faster than ever before. Their technology is a complete game changer for us, and I suspect it will be for the hospitality industry as a whole.”

Conventional market research methods (i.e. focus groups and questionnaires) cannot capture the volume or depth of food insights at speed, leaving restaurants and consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) unable to meet market demand. Leveraging machine learning, predictive analytics, computer vision and NLP processing, Tastewise’s AI-based approach now makes it possible for any food company to satisfy its customers by discovering the latest trends on both local and national levels before they go mainstream.

“Today, many of us are adventurous eaters, constantly searching for new food experiences, while prioritizing our health,” says Chen. “In this new environment, all CPGs and restaurants whatever their size have to become as dynamic as food trucks and pop-ups. Tastewise provides the freshest analytics to help them stay at the forefront.”

“Big data is transforming big industries. As the food industry is undergoing immense changes, we are excited that Tastewise has the power to drive the transformation in decision making, providing critical business insights to enable hotels, restaurants and food brands to stay ahead of the curve,” says Tal Tochner from Pico Ventures, the lead investor at Tastewise.

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