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.
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?
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.
That’s the one this post was about, though.
I know, I posted it. :) I wrote the comment as reply to
as 2g2g operates in a bunch of countries.
Yeah, and ResQ works in a bunch of other countries. Just wondering if there is a third bunch of countries served by a third app. I wouldn’t mind having them all installed on my phone when travelling 🙂
That’s also the OP, though