This app lets you buy leftover restaurant food in LA. Is it worth it?

ktla ^ | Alix Martichoux

[BenLurkin]

The app is pretty to easy to use. When you open it up, there are offerings from restaurants in your area with different pickup times and prices. Most of the options that I’ve seen in my area are so-called “surprise bags,” a mix of items that will remain a mystery to you until you pick up.

You have to be OK with fixed pick-up times, a mystery assortment of goods, and the chance that you might end up with nothing every once in a while. I wouldn’t rely on it for my weekly meal planning, but I’m not the kind of person who turns down a discount. Or a pastry.

[Eccl 10:2]

Sounds like it might better be suited for use by a shelter or the like. Not for individual consumption.

[Gay State Conservative]

If it's a top end restaurant....Capital Grille or Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for example...it might be worthwhile.If the price was right.

[sevlex]

I’ll wait for the dumpster diving app.

[Lisbon1940]

No different than Hotwire for unused hotel beds.

[ptsal]

Bkmk

[CondoleezzaProtege]

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[Rurudyne]

Project Dignity: giving shopping carts to the homeless back in the day

… and how to dumpster dive for food….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M6UD3_W4Cc

[Libloather]

Not gonna do it...

[max americana]

Grubhub and Postmates already charge $8 minimum for delivery, and they want us to pay the equivalent for leftovers? I know where Trader Joe’s, Target, Gelson’s, Ralphs, Vons gives away their excess food to, and that’s the local churches close by.

[Trillian]

After reading the article it seems expensive to me for the amount of food you get.

[WMarshal]

The sunny life in gulag America! Americans asking advice on the best garbage crumbs to eat from their communist masters’ tables.

[Beowulf9]

Who invented that app? The Manson family girls?

Dumpster diving has achieved new heights, or lows.

[Michael.SF.]

Little known fact: Famed French Chef Escoffier, in the 1880’s, would feed left over food free to the homeless and poor of London, who would wait in the alley behind his restaurant.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

Is that the food they scraped off the plates before they throw them in the dishwasher? (You know, that’s how pizza was invented).

[Dr. Sivana]

It could be useful for college students low on cash. I would have done it then.

[BenLurkin]

“I have ate out of your garbage cans to stay out of jail. I have wore your second-hand clothes.” - Charles Manson

[God luvs America]

And you damn well know the uneaten salad or pasta or vegetables, etc, etc left on plates will be put into one big bowl then sold.

[Bullish]

Gross. It’s bad enough to eat the rot they sell in LA.