An App in Singapore Lets You Eat Leftovers From Fancy Hotels

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Are you one of those people who thinks food tastes better the day after you cook it? Then you may want to head to Singapore. 

A company in the southeast Asian country is making it possible for people to dine on leftovers from high-end restaurants. The concept is in response to global food wastage which is particularly common in the Asia-Pacific region, an area that accounts for more than half of the food squandered globally.

Treatsure was co-founded in 2017 by Preston Wong who got the idea for food redistribution after watching his family throwing out consumable food that was expiring. “We launched the app to target food and beverage wastage. I found that the food wastage problem was as challenging in the food industry as it was in households,” he explained. 

The app has more than 40,000 users who can collect a box of food from fancy hotels such as the Hyatt, Accor Group, and the Singapore Marriott Tang Plaza Hotel that would otherwise have been thrown out. The “buffet in a box” costs $10.50 Singaporean Dollars (around $8 US Dollars), while a typical hotel buffet would set you back $70 SGD ($50 USD). 

“A common mantra that I have is that being sustainable should be attainable,” says Wong. “I think technology can bridge that gap.”