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Interesting new idea. Beyond saving money, discarded food is bad for the environment, as well as just being wsteful.
Lots of Food Gets Tossed. These Apps Let You Buy It, Cheap
Several companies say they are tackling food waste by connecting people with unsold food from restaurants and grocery stores.
Around the country, apps that connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The concept is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge amounts of food every day. Rather than trash it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it at a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment because the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change. https://buffalonews.com/lots-of-food...5ae56776d.html
Thanks for this note. I downloaded both of the apps mentioned in the article. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any partner restaurants/stores for either app in Honolulu (where I'm moving back to this weekend), at least not yet. But I'm still keeping the apps.
Actually, that's a little different from what those apps do.
OzHarvest operates like Philabundance does in the Philadelphia area: it collects food that restaurants, grocers and other businesses don't use or sell and donates it to community food pantries and others in need of food to feed their families. The recipients get the food for free.
TooGoodtoGo isn't charity: it's more like a markdown sale. Users buy food that restaurants, grocers and other businesses didn't sell at regular price during the day and pick it up at the close of business. It lets the business make a buck where it otherwise wouldn't have and keeps food from going to waste at the same time.
Philadelphia is also one of the cities where TooGoodtoGo operates. I've bought grilled chicken dinners and whole pizzas from local restaurants for a song using it, and there's a highly regarded bread baker in the neighborhood I live in that also participates; I will in all likelihood order bread from it using the app sometime.
Edited to add: Clearly, there's plenty of surplus food to go around, because both Philabundance and TooGoodtoGo have enough to distribute via their respective channels.
I do not see much difference between this app and all of the salvage stores across the country that do the same thing.
The salvage stores buy from wholesalers that couldn't sell everything they had in stock to supermarkets in time or whoelsalers that have slightly damaged items that are nonetheless safe to eat.
These apps mainly offer foods restaurants have cooked for sale that day but couldn't sell before they closed — though I suspect that in some cases, the restaurant prepares items specifically for end-of-day sale (for instance, pizzerias cook pies to order, so why would they have "leftovers"? Yet I can order Too Good to Go surprise bags from a pizzeria about six blocks from me).
I was always taught to clean up my plate. My sister is always one who would throw away more than half the food on her plate... I'd always just roll my eyes. Why go to a buffet and take so much if you are going to throw it away?
In any case I always go to wal-mart or sam's club and by the discounted meat and/or produce for less money.
I was always taught to clean up my plate. My sister is always one who would throw away more than half the food on her plate... I'd always just roll my eyes. Why go to a buffet and take so much if you are going to throw it away?
In any case I always go to wal-mart or sam's club and by the discounted meat and/or produce for less money.
I don't like to waste food, either; all those starving North Koreans. The idea of someone wasting food at a buffet bothers me. Just take what you will actually eat.
It sounds like a perfect plan for business owners to suffer more employee theft.
The manager orders two rib roasts and then sells the second one as excess food at the end of the day. The kids that make the pizzas bake a few extra at the end of the day and sell them out the back door.
I'm sure it goes on already, but now there is an AP for that.
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