Column: : A new app helps prevent waste at small local food businesses

MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • October 30, 2022

Users who’ve downloaded the Too Good To Go app to their phones can locate participating vendors within a 1- to 20-mile radius and buy the food at a cut rate. They must pick it up before closing time. Too Good To Go (a mission-driven B-Corp) and the local producers are, at best, just covering their costs in this food-waste avoidance venture. But for customers, it’s a great deal. Since 2016, with over 65 million app users worldwide, Too Good To Go calculates that it has prevented 169 million meals from going to waste.