PRESS RELEASESToo Good To Go Calls on Pubs in Tier 2 to Discourage Food Waste

8 December 2020 - Too Good To Go, the food waste fighting app, is calling on pubs in England to discourage food waste as they welcome customers back this month.

News that a large volume of food is being served and not eaten has led Too Good To Go to make a plea to pubs to encourage customers to take leftover food home with them so that it does not go to waste.

Jamie Crummie, co-founder of Too Good To Go, said: “This has been an extremely tough year for our pub industry and it is brilliant to see consumers returning through their doors to give some much needed support. However, the new restrictions are unnecessarily resulting in perfectly good food being thrown away.

“But there is something that can be done. I’m asking pubs to encourage customers to take leftover food home with them if they are not able to consume it all during their time at the pub. Food should be eaten and enjoyed, and by enabling customers to take their food home we can ensure that the resources, time and energy that has gone into creating food does not go to waste.”

Too Good To Go lets people buy surplus food and drink from pubs, restaurants, retailers and producers to stop it from going to waste. Consumers simply download the free Too Good To Go app and search for nearby businesses with unsold produce. They then purchase a ‘Magic Bag’, collect it at an allotted time and enjoy it.

For more information on Too Good To Go visit www.toogoodtogo.co.uk.

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ABOUT TOO GOOD TO GO

Too Good To Go has a simple mission: to make sure all food gets eaten, not wasted.

In 2016, a group of entrepreneurs witnessed restaurant staff throwing away fresh food. The food’s only problem? It hadn’t sold in time, and no one was around to take it off the restaurant’s hands. The group pioneered a seamless solution: an app that lists businesses’ unsold food so local diners can find, buy and enjoy it.

Now, thousands of Magic Bags are rescued from businesses such as supermarkets, restaurants, and bakeries every day. The success of the app powers Too Good To Go’s wider efforts to drive a food waste movement, working with schools, industries and governments to build a planet-friendly food system.

Too Good To Go by numbers:

15 countries

53 million meals saved globally

29 million app installs globally

64,000 partner stores globally

2020 became a registered B-Corp

Find out more at www.toogoodtogo.co.uk, or visit us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

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Belinda Hallworth - PR Manager

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