减少浪费！用app买剩余食物吧
App Lets You Buy Leftover Food From Restaurants And It's Really Cheap
Here's a situation where takeout is more cost efficient than cooking at home.
如今,比起在家烧饭,外卖更为经济实惠.
Too Good To Go, an app operating in the UK, allows users to order leftover food at a discount from restaurants, according to the website. The goal is to help curb waste from establishments that typically toss out perfectly edible food at the end of the day.
Too Good To Go是一款正在英国运营的手机应用.根据该应用官网介绍,使用该应用的用户能以折扣价从餐厅订购剩余食物.这款应用旨在帮助餐厅控制浪费,因为这些餐厅会在营业结束后将还能吃的食物倒掉.
Users simply log in, pick a restaurant, and pay through the app.
用户只需进行简单的注册,挑选一家餐厅,并通过应用付款.
Then they pick up their food at designated times―usually around closing or after peak meal times, according to the Telegraph.
据英国《每日电讯报》报道,用户需要在指定的时间内领取订购的食物——通常是在打烊或是用餐高峰之后.
"Food waste just seems like one of the dumbest problems we have in this world,"co-founder James Crummie told Business Green."The restaurant industry is wasting about 600,000 tonnes of food each year, and in the UK alone there are one million people on emergency food parcels from food banks. Why do we have these two massive social issues that are completely connected, yet there is not much going on to address them?"
"食物浪费似乎是世界上最愚蠢的问题之一."该款应用的联合创始人詹姆斯•克拉米向绿色商业讲道."餐饮业每年浪费约60万吨食物.单单在英国,每年就有100万人接受来自食品银行的应急食品包救济.为什么我们会面临两个重大且紧密相关的社会问题,然而对此的解决力度却远远不够呢？"
Users also have the option to give meals to people in need by donating 1 British pound or more through the app, according to the website. More than 1,100 meals have been donated so far.
该应用官网称,用户还可以通过在软件上捐赠一英镑及以上的钱款,为需要帮助的人提供食物.目前为止,该应用收到了1100多顿餐的捐款.
Treat yourself to a nice lunch through TGTG today! Eat well and reduce food waste. #FeedBelliesNotBins
打开TGTG,犒赏自己一顿美味的午餐吧！吃得好,浪费少.#FeedBelliesNotBins
—Too Good To Go UK (@TooGoodToGo_UK) July 28, 2016
—来自Too Good To Go 英国 (@TooGoodToGo_UK) 2016年7月28日
Founded in Denmark last year, Too Good To Go was launched this year in the UK and is expanding to other countries. The app is available in Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, and will be in London later this month.
Too Good To Go去年刚在丹麦成立,并在今年正式登陆英国,还正向其他国家扩张业务.目前,这款手机应用在布莱顿、伯明翰、曼切斯特和利兹市等地均可使用.到本月底,伦敦业务即将开通.
Food waste is a major problem worldwide. In the US alone, up to 40 percent of food goes uneaten―meanwhile one in six households didn't have enough money for food last year.
在全世界范围内,食物浪费是一个大问题.单单在美国,残剩食物就高达40%.与此同时,去年,每六个家庭中就有一个家庭无法负担食品支出.
