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This App Lets You Buy Leftover Food From Your Favorite Restaurant

Too Good To Go is an app that lets you buy whatever food your favorite restaurant has left when it is about to close. It could be your favorite pasta dish, fresh sushi, or a delectable dessert. But you never know what you are going to get, it’s always a surprise according to the anti-food-waste app.

Most restaurants would end up throwing the extra food away and that is exactly what the folks behind the app want to avoid. Food waste in the US is so pervasive that it amounts to between 30 and 40 percent of all food produced. When food is sent to a landfill, it turns into methane gas when it decomposes. So instead of feeding a hungry person, leftover food actually contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.

Now there is a way to keep food out of landfills and into hungry bellies. Too Good To Go launched in New York and Boston in September 2020 (the Danish app first launched in Copenhagen in 2016) and over 500,000 people have already signed up. This saved over 200,000 meals from going into landfills. Since then, the app has expanded into Washington DC and Philadelphia and will be in ten US cities by the end of the year, Lucie Basch, cofounder of Too Good To Go, told Fast Company.

The app doesn’t just partner with restaurants and cafes, but also with food stores, grocers, coffee shops, and anywhere food can be wasted.

The service is free for customers to use and the app takes a cut from the sales price of the food which is usually about one-third of the price of ordering from the menu.