Too Good To Go: End Food Waste

Used this app first time Tonight at cherry tree pub in Ipswich and I went to collect two carverys up For 3.29 each instead of 7.99 which is the actual price normally. Was given a massive plastic takeaway tray. I was asked what meat I wanted so asked for a bit of everything which they did and they said to help myself with everything else so I filled they tray up to the brim. It was such a bargain. Each tray could easily feed two people if filled up to the top. That’s less the. 1.65 each of you share one. I was very happy with the purchase . I spoke to a man in the pub and he said he used the app at a local hotel and spent 2.25 for a breakfast bag and got loads of goodies including 7 pieces of bacon. Hew was very happy with the service. I hope when I try somewhere else they will be just as good. I’ve seen loads of bad reviews in places like bakeries I’m Hoping I don’t have the same experience when I use it for a bakery near me on Wednesday. But then you don’t know unless you try and if it’s bad you just don’t go there again do you.

Used the app for the first time today and was amazed. It’s simple to use and navigate around. Unfortunately I live in a smaller town so there are very few restaurants or cafes signed up to the app, however, I knew this was likely before downloading the app. I’m happy to say that one of the local stores that has signed up is a very popular bakery. I choose to purchase one of their ‘magic bags’ today. After reading the reviews, I was aware that the contents of a bag could be pleasing or disappointing, depending on the store. I therefore kept my expectations realistic and thought it would contain a sandwich or perhaps a croissant or two. Boy, was I wrong! I left the bakery carrying two bags containing two sandwich croissants, a sourdough and prosciutto sandwich, half a filled baguette, a cinnamon and raisin swirl, a bagel, a focaccia loaf, two farmhouse loaves and eight seeded rolls! All for just £3! I will definitely be using the app often and happily!

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Just got the app really so I don’t have much to say about my own experience, but one of the first things I noticed is that you are very much at the whim of your location. For me, there is nothing in my immediate vicinity and I would have to go to the next town over just to get to the nearest place on the app. The town isn’t usually too far but even by car it’s at least 15 minutes away and I don’t drive to begin with. I don’t know about anyone else but I’m not hopping on a train just for to pick up a bag of mystery groceries. As for some of the other reviews I’ve seen there’s a few other problems that are an issue, namely the places just exploiting it as an opportunity to make more money from offloading the unappealing stuff which would otherwise be thrown out. I get that we’re not paying store price for this stuff and that it’s the stuff that hasn’t sold at the end of the day, but still, bit of a dick move to give someone a stale muffin that nobody wants and then make them pay too much for it. They could show a picture of it so that we get to see if we’d actually be willing to pay the stated price for the item, either that or maybe temper the price by quality.

I can't speak for all food places but can only imagine the same or similar repeating elsewhere. A burger shop (Bunk Burgers) described 'wings and burgers' that you could rescue. Wings being a side this clearly indicated to me that I get a burger as well as wings - great! I go to the shop and they hand me the tied up bag which I returned home with only to find I was only given wings. No burger at all. It looks like shops are advertising all their best this things then giving the cheapest items they can get away with. Part of the Too Good To Go concept is that you get no choice or say in what you're given. That's understandable if it's only leftover food that'll go to waste but not reasonable if you go home with sides everytime you order a dinner. I don't even think those wings would have gone to waste - they were made fresh when I went in. The price I was charged is almost the usual price considering it was just wings. To them it's just another deliveroo or just eat style order. Quite misleading. --- Update: The Too Good To Go customer service has refunded this purchase. I can't fault the service received from them. Will try again perhaps with a different restaurant and maybe it'll be a different experience. Changed to 5 stars for now.

I’ve been using this app for about three weeks now and I’ve tried several different shops and cafes in different locations. I can’t fault the app-it’s really easy to navigate and the food has been great. I live very close to several coffee shops and restaurants-the down side to this is that I mostly stick to the same places when I’m out and about. With this app I’ve been able to try lots of new places and discover and support local businesses I didn’t even know existed! I’ve picked up bags of food and desserts to the value of £15-£20 for under £5! I’ve only had one bag that I didn’t think was that great-it was a boxed up meal from local shop which I thought was quite small. When I asked what was inside they just said it’s vegetarian-but it tasted really good and the staff were very friendly. I’ve mostly used bakeries and coffee shops so I get lots of pastries bread and fancy sandwiches which is great for a family on the go. In terms of developing the app-I would like to have the option to take my own packaging and inform the shops that I will be doing this. The app does state that you can take your own Tupperware but the shops have often already boxed and bagged everything up when I arrive.