The app that matches surplus food with the hungry

Plenty of businesses throw a ridiculous amount of catering into the garbage every day, often as people go hungry on the streets outside their office buildings. 

What if there was a push-button way of matching the surplus with the demand? What if an app could actually be useful in this situation?

That's the premise behind Copia, a service for on-demand food donations. It offers an easy way for businesses to provide their uneaten food to nearby shelters and other nonprofits that provide food to people in need. 

Here's how it works: businesses, event hosts or any other group that wants to make a donation snaps a photo of their extra food — Copia takes anything, cooked or uncooked, packaged or unpackaged — and schedule a pickup time in the app or website.   Read more...