Businesses can sign up for Too Good To Go and sell “surprise bags” at discounted prices to customers at the end of the day. The company said nearly 100 businesses in the city have partnered with the app, which launched in Ottawa on June 9. “It’s like a win-win, win-win,” said Jon Martin, vice president of franchise management at Maverick’s Donuts, one of the app’s businesses. “Win for the customer, win for the business and also win for the environment,” he said. Martin, who also owns four Maverick franchises, said it was “indifferent” for Maverick’s to work with the app because, as a bakery that makes all the donuts of the day, it is sometimes difficult to predict what the demand. a given day. “At the end of the day we freeze [the doughnuts] “And because they are cake donuts, they freeze very well and people can come and pick them up the next day at a reduced price,” Martin said. Maverick’s offers a pack of six surprise donuts that customers can pick up at the store for one-third of the price they would normally sell.
Surprise bags help you get to zero
All bags from Too Good To Go are surprises, which means that customers do not know exactly what they are getting. Sam Kashani, country manager for the Too Good to Go app, said the surprise item really allows businesses to get as close as possible to zero waste. “The surprise bag really allows them to capture all their food surplus and allow consumers to enjoy a delicious meal or delicious pastries,” he said, adding that businesses may not know exactly what to eat at the beginning of the day. have to sell in bags. Valerie Leloup is the co-founder and CEO of Nu Grocery, a zero waste grocery store. She said using the Too Good to Go app is a compliment to her business, which is already trying to have zero food waste. (Krystalle Ramlakhan / CBC) At Nu Grocery, a zero-waste grocery store, the surprise bag usually contains fragile items such as products. The store’s philosophy is to avoid wasting food at all costs, so working with the app was a compliment to what they already did. “It just comes as an extra piece in the waste reduction puzzle,” said Valerie Leloup, co-founder and CEO of Nu Grocery. Leloup said they already donated items they could not sell at discounted prices or donated the items to staff or as donations, so the app is “the perfect step” between them all. And with food prices rising due to inflation, Leloup adds, getting products and groceries at a reduced price will help people eat healthier without worrying too much about costs.
