Feeding the five million - Jamie reflects on how far our food saving baby has come over the past two years!2 years and 5 million meals later… a few words from our co-founder
In 2015 several pretty awesome entrepreneurs around Europe were thinking about how to use tech to tackle food waste. In 2016 it happened - the magic was born and Too Good To Go began as a tool where every meal and every person could make a difference. One of those entrepreneurs was UK-based Jamie. Here in our London office we’re still fighting food waste alongside Jamie every day, so for our two year anniversary we asked him to share a bit about the Too Good To Go journey...
WOW we’re two years old already! Genuinely can’t believe how old we are - said no two year old ever. I doubt I could even hold my own head at that age, but hey, at two years of age we’re already making one hell of a mega impact by rescuing five million meals from going to waste. Yes, that’s right, five million meals. The equivalent of feeding the entire population of Ireland for a day, so let’s all celebrate! That’s a lot of food, right?!
And by we, I don’t mean Too Good To Go, I mean all of us: our awesome food waste fighting store partners (your local cafes and restaurants on the app); our amazing Waste Warrior users and everyone else involved on this fantastic journey - we’re all part of this collective, this community and we’re making the world better one rescued meal at a time.
People are always asking me if I still use the app, probably because they remember when it was where I sourced all my food (literally ALL my food) when we were starting out. Of course I still do, I love the fun of the surprise from each meal you rescue and I love the fact I can feed my sugar and carb cravings guilt-free because I know we are helping our planet. What I really love the most now though, is standing in line to rescue a Magic Bag and meeting a load of other food Waste Warriors with their Too Good To Go app in hand. When I speak to this community not only do I get really valuable recommendations for the app, I am also amazed by the momentum the food waste movement is gaining.
So thank you everyone! Now here’s to rescuing 50 million meals, I think we can do it!
Delen
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Our app is the world's largest marketplace for surplus food. We help users rescue good food from going to waste, offering great value for money at local stores, cafes and restaurants.