Foodini

What’s your idea?

Foodini is an app and website providing real time information of local food deals. The aim is to reduce food waste of small shops, supermarkets and farms by providing a platform which they can post cut price offers to a wide user base of bargain hunters using geo tags. Users can comment rate and share information via Facebook or Twitter.

Users are provided with real-time info of great discounts on local food shops.

Businesses are provided with a marketing tool to advertise ‘must go’ food items reducing unnecessary food waste.

A sort of Groupon or Lastminute.com for food.

What is the social need or challenge your idea could address?

In the UK 17 million tones of food is thrown away each year. Across the UK £18 bn of avoidable food waste is thrown into land fills.

What’s really new about your idea?

Being able to share great food deals via your phone with friends and family while helping to reduce food waste.

From 1-5, what stage of development would you say your idea was in?

Stage 1. just an idea at the moment.

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