Save Good Food From Going To Waste - Too Good To Go
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Too Good To Go app is the world's largest surplus food marketplace. Download now and enjoy good food at 1/2 price or less, help the environment and reduce food waste.

I’ve been using their app for some time now and really like the concept: Basically it allows restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets etc to announce when they have stuff leftover that they’d usually throw away at the end of the day. You can browse those nearby shops in the app and reserve a “surprise bag” for a small amount, usually around a third of the regular price, but it varies. In the pickup timeframe (usally around 30-60min before their closing time) you go there, show that you’ve reserved the bag in your app, confirm that you’ve received it and happily walk home with a ton of surprise food for super cheap.

After using it for a while I can especially recommend looking for food stalls at farmers markets as they often have lots of stuff leftover that they don’t want to take back home when packing up so they’re often super generous. Bakeries are also great, I regularly get a week’s supply of bread, buns, pastries and cake for like 3-5€.

EDIT: While it’s made in Denmark the app works globally or at least all of EuropeAFAIK, definitely works fine with lots of participating shops in Germany.

  • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
    41·
    8 hours ago

    I tried this app and while I love the concept I think the implementation is trash.

    My biggest complaint when I tried it was that you couldn’t specify dietary restrictions, like there’s not even a simple vegetarian option which would be so easy for many restaurants to accommodate. This app might be ok if you’re happy eating any slop the restaurant can’t sell that day, but if you have literally any preference then too bad.

    Then there’s also the issue of some restaurants that intentionally make extra food so they can sell it on the app. I don’t have a solution to this one, but it’s a problem that needs to be addressed if the point of the app is to reduce food waste.

    • Srootus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      From my own experience, it’s down to the restaurant / shop to offer a vegetarian option, TGTG doesnt tell the restaurant what to offer, so maybe see if you can get your favorite places to offer a vegetarian / vegan / etc bag. A grocery store in my area offer a vegan breakfast almost every day. As for what TGTG should do, maybe they could add filters and tags so you can filter out your preferences. That would be cool.