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.
The offering is very hit or miss. Obviously, that’s not the platforms fault. It does feel like some of the vendors are taking the piss.
I’ve had everything from total disappointment to “they could’ve given me a third of what I got and I would’ve been happy”.
Still worth trying out to see what’s on offer in your area.
Obviously, that’s not the platforms fault.
Exactly. The platform — at least as a user — is great. However, the vendors do often give out… Well, garbage. Hit or miss, as you put it.
I’ve found a few places nearby that have some pretty solid offerings, to be honest, but I’ve been disappointed a couple of times as well…
Yeah, I’ve tried a bunch of places at first but now I have 4-5 favorite ones that always have good stuff. Some restaurants seem to use the app more as advertisement to get more people visiting, but I think that’s fair too when they offer a meal for half the price in return. Also I never got any bad deals, it was always a good bargain even if I didn’t end up liking what I got. It’s kind of a plus for the app actually in my opinion because that I tried many new places that I’d normally not care about just because they were in the app, and I found some really nice ones this way.
I’ve been using the app for a while and had no idea it was a European app. I’m an (embarrassed by my country) American so I’m glad that I’m supporting a European company, and the businesses in my area that use it are all small local businesses.
It’s a great app and it really does help to avoid waste, but… I know a few businesses that went from donating their leftovers to charities for the poor to selling them through TGTG, because that way, they still make some money off of it.
Oh, they’re Danish!
