A Karma app user collecting his food, ordered through the food-sharing app, from a Coco Di Mama food outlet – a store partnered with the Karma app – in London. — Photos: AFP
LONDON: Jack Convery pops into a London branch of Italian eatery Coco di Mama to grab a cut-price lunch ordered on his smartphone's food-sharing app Karma.
The 27-year-old Amazon employee – with an eye for a bargain and for helping the environment – uses a mobile phone app that sells surplus food from hundreds of UK restaurants at discounted prices.
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A Karma app user collecting his food, ordered through the food-sharing app, from a Coco Di Mama food outlet – a store partnered with the Karma app – in London. — Photos: AFP
A logo is pictured on the wrapping of a baguette displayed for sale inside a Coco Di Mama food outlet in London. — AFP
A worker at a Coco di Mama food outlet, a store partnered with the Karma food-sharing app, uploading foods at reduced prices for users of the app to buy. — AFP
Swedish startup Karma was founded in Stockholm in 2016 and its app now helps serve 1.0 million users in Britain, France and home market Sweden. In the UK alone, it offers 2,000 outlets. — AFP
A user of the Karma food-sharing app browsing foods available from the Coco Di Mama food outlet chain of stores in London. — AFP
Coco di Mama's head of marketing, Sara McCraight, inside a Coco Di Mama food outlet in London. 'We do not plan for the day to end with zero waste, because at the end of every day we want to have some stock on our shelves' for customers not using the apps, says McCraight. 'When we give to charity partners, that's great. But with Karma we get some money recovered; (it) doesn't cover costs but it helps.' — AFP
Coco di Mama's head of marketing, Sara McCraight, inside a Coco Di Mama food outlet in London. 'We do not plan for the day to end with zero waste, because at the end of every day we want to have some stock on our shelves' for customers not using the apps, says McCraight. 'When we give to charity partners, that's great. But with Karma we get some money recovered; (it) doesn't cover costs but it helps.' — AFP
A Karma app user collecting his food, ordered through the food-sharing app, from a Coco Di Mama food outlet in London. Britain's cafes and restaurants are embracing apps that generate some revenue from rescued food that would otherwise be destined for landfill. — AFP
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