This App Wants To Sell You Restaurant Leftovers -- For A Huge Discount

This article is part of HuffPost’s Reclaim campaign, an ongoing project spotlighting the world’s waste crisis and how we can begin to solve it. If you like the idea of getting discounts at your favorite food joints, you might be in for a treat. The mobile app FoodForAll allows users to buy leftover food from nearby restaurants at anywhere from 50 to 80 percent off the original price. Users simply log in, see which participating restaurants in the area have surplus food available, order and pay through the app. They can go pick up their food at a time designated by the restaurant, usually around closing. “The main goal is to reduce food waste, and have better distribution for restaurants’ surplus food,” CEO David Rodríguez told The Huffington Post. “If it were a country, food waste would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases. It has a huge impact on global warming, yet people are not aware of it.” FoodForAll is still in a pilot phase, only available to select users in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with around 30 restaurants participating. The app plans to launch for widespread public use in New York City and Boston in July. Food waste is a serious problem in the United States, with up to 40 percent of food going uneaten. Meanwhile, 1 family in 6 doesn’t have enough money for meals. What’s more, when food gets tossed, it usually ends up decomposing in a landfill, releasing greenhouse gases tha...
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