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.

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Hello (first post on Lemmy !). I re-downloaded the app to give it another chance. I live in a small town and had never been able to take advantage of the concept before.

But I see a new feature with home delivery of themed packages, and I noticed that I missed the crazy sales on Lucien Georgelin jams (for those who don’t know, a family producer from the Southwest of France, a pride of my hometown). Now I’m super excited about this kind of opportunity. I also saw some very interesting Bjorg product sales.

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Oh that’s cool! I’ve ignored that section before because when they introduced it it only had offers for cosmetics and stuff which is nothing I’m interested in, but I just checked again and they have some good offers for long shelf life food now as well, I’ll keep watching!

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Okay, what other ResQ clones are there? I’ve been wondering why there’s so little anything on ResQ in Denmark, and this explains it. Maybe there’s a third program that works in yet other countries?

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I’m using 2g2g in Germany and there are lots of participating shops here. According to their website, they’re operating in all of Europe as well as Canada, Australia and the US.

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That’s the one this post was about, though.

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I know, I posted it. :) I wrote the comment as reply to

Maybe there’s a third program that works in yet other countries?

as 2g2g operates in a bunch of countries.

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That’s also the OP, though

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We got something similar called ResQ in Finland, works great but I guess it’s available only in very few countries.

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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.

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Don’t know if this is new but I just checked and you can set your diet preferences in the account settings.

I hardly believe restaurants prepare extra food in advance just to sell it a huge discount with very little or no profit. Actually whenever I went to a restaurant that participated it wasn’t leftover stuff but they cooked the meal fresh just for me. I guess they’re using the app as a way to advertise and draw more people in with a big discount and hope they come back again to eat there at the full price.

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Glad to hear they added that feature! I downloaded it again and I’m going to give it another try.

If you’ve purchased food through the app from restaurants that cook your meal fresh, doesn’t that go against the point of the app which is to reduce food waste by purchasing food that would otherwise be thrown out? Maybe cooking the food fresh for Too Good To Go customers isn’t quite as bad as restaurants that prepare extra food in advance just to sell on the app (and end up throwing away much of it), but they’re still using the app as another way to sell food without any regard to reducing food waste. If the goal is to reduce food waste then they shouldn’t be preparing anything extra for users of the app.

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Well yeah it’s not exactly in the spirit of the app but as long as it doesn’t lead to throwing away MORE food I don’t think it does any harm.

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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.

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There is a filter in the settings for vegan/vegetarian. In my experience the shops/restaurants always asked me if I eat meat/fish when filling the bag, but I also live in a very hipster area where it feels like majority of people is vegan now, might be different elsewhere. :)

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I’ve used this a few times in england. It’s okay for the novelty or if you like eating anything/everything but I have the same criticisms - you’re getting a few random old things they can’t sell. Its usually not a very good deal, just like buying reduced stuff at the supermarket is usually substandard in some way.

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There used to be some good deals in the past, but as the demand increased, so did the prices.

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