App connects consumers with surplus retail food

A third of the world’s food goes to waste, representing a major environmental, economic and social challenge. Food waste occurs across the entire food value chain, but surplus food from retailers, restaurants and consumers remains one of the most visible and costly parts of the problem.

Danish company Too Good To Go has developed a user-friendly app that connects consumers with unsold food from shops, bakeries, cafés and restaurants. Through the app, consumers can buy surplus food that would otherwise risk going to waste, while businesses can recover value from unsold food and reach new customers.

The app creates a marketplace for surplus food and supports behaviour change by making it easy for consumers to take part in reducing food waste. The surplus food ranges from bakery products and restaurant meals to unsold supermarket groceries — all still perfectly edible.

Since 2016, Too Good To Go’s community has saved over 600 million meals from going to waste across 20 countries.

According to Too Good To Go’s 2025 Impact Report, the company’s community has saved over 600 million meals from going to waste since 2016. The platform now connects more than 120 million registered users with 200,000 active partners across 20 countries.

In 2025 alone, Too Good To Go’s community saved almost 157 million meals from going to waste, avoiding 424 thousand tonnes of CO₂e emissions and 127 billion litres of unnecessary water use.

By connecting consumers with surplus food from retailers and food service businesses, Too Good To Go helps reduce food waste, lower the environmental impact of uneaten food and make better use of food that has already been produced.