Restaurants and supermarkets often have unsold food. What happens to it after closing time? Sadly, most of it goes into the trash. The managers of Eataly Canada, a large chain of restaurants, wanted to stop this. They felt uncomfortable about throwing away still-edible food every day. Therefore, they decided to use an app from the "Too Good To Go" project to stop food waste. They keep unsold items and put them into a "magic bag." Customers can pick up these bags from the restaurant.
The Too Good To Go project was set up in Denmark in 2015 by Thomas Momsen. He saw a restaurant dump a lot of leftover buffet food after closing time, and he wanted to make a difference. He and four friends created the Too Good To Go app. It allows people to buy a magic bag when a restaurant is going to close for the day. The app lists restaurants, bakeries, cafes, and supermarkets. All are willing to sell their unsold food products at about a third of the normal prices. Customers choose a place on the app and order a magic bag. It typically costs between NT$95 and NT$165. They cannot choose specific food items, but the fun lies in the surprise.
Besides customers, this app is good for restaurants and food businesses and helps the environment as well. It has been helping businesses realize that they are wasting a considerable amount of food. It encourages them to pay more attention to their food production methods, and many have started to do so. As a result, the app helps reduce food waste, provides food for customers at discounted prices, and promotes restaurants all at the same time. The environment also benefits from less food waste. At present, food waste produces more greenhouse gases than the airline industry. With this app, everybody wins.
As the Too Good To Go company says on its website, "We dream of a planet with no food waste." More than 140,000 businesses offer food through the app, and the website shows that over 121 million meals have been saved so far. The app is not yet used in Taiwan, but some stores and social groups are doing similar work. You can help decrease food waste by using these services. After all, a lot of food is simply too good to go to waste.
餐廳和超市經常有賣不完的食物。打烊之後會跑去哪裡呢？令人難過的是，它們大部分都被扔進了垃圾桶。加拿大一間大型連鎖餐廳義塔里的經理們想要抑止這種情況。他們對每天扔掉還能吃的食物感到過意不去。因此他們決定使用「捨不得丟」這個計畫所開發的應用程式來停止食物浪費。他們把沒賣完的品項留下來，然後放進一個「驚喜包」中。顧客可以來餐廳買到這些美食驚喜包。
「捨不得丟」計畫由 Thomas Momsen 於 2015 年在丹麥創立。他看到一家餐廳在打烊後倒掉很多剩餘的自助餐食物，因此想要有所改變。他和其他四個人創建了「捨不得丟」應用程式。讓民眾在餐廳即將打烊時能購買驚喜包。該應用程式列出了餐廳、麵包店、咖啡館和超市。所有店家都願意以正常價格的三分之一左右販售沒賣完的食品。顧客可以在應用程式上選擇一個地方並訂購驚喜包。它的價格通常介於新台幣 95 至 165 元之間。他們無法選擇特定的食物，但樂趣就在於開袋時的驚喜。
除了顧客，該款應用程式也對餐廳及食品業有好處，還有助於環境。它一直在協助商家意識到自己正浪費大量的食物。這個應用程式鼓勵商家更關注自己的食品生產方式，而許多商家已經開始這樣做。因此，這個應用程式有助於減少食物浪費、以折扣價向顧客提供食物，同時還推廣餐廳。環境也受益於食物廢棄物減少。目前，食物廢棄物產生的溫室氣體比航空業還多。有了這款應用程式，大家都是贏家。
正如「捨不得丟」公司在其網站上所說的那樣，「我們夢想一個沒有食物浪費的星球。」超過十四萬的商家透過這款應用程式提供食品，網站顯示目前已經有超過一億兩千一百萬頓餐食被救回。這個應用程式尚未在台灣上市。然而，一些商店和社會團體也在做類似的事。你可以利用這些服務來幫助減少食物浪費。畢竟，很多食物就是好到捨不得丟。
- chain [tʃen] n.
連鎖（商店）；鍊子 - edible [ˋɛdəb!] adj.
可食用的 - waste [west] n.
浪費；廢料，廢品 - customer [ˋkʌstəmɚ] n.
顧客 - dump [dʌmp] v.
丟棄 - leftover [ˋleft͵ovɚ] adj.
剩下的，留下的 - normal [ˋnɔrm!] adj.
正常的 - typically [ˋtɪpɪklɪ] adv.
一般地，通常 - specific [spɪˋsɪfɪk] adj.
特定的 - considerable [kənˋsɪdərəb!] adj.
可觀的，相當大的 - amount [əˋmaʊnt] n.
（不可數名詞的）數量，數額 - encourage [ɪnˋkɝɪdʒ] v.
鼓勵 - method [ˋmɛθəd] n.
方法 - reduce [rɪˋdjus] v.
減少 - discount [ˋdɪskaʊnt] v.
打折 - promote [prəˋmot] v.
推銷，宣傳 - similar [ˋsɪməlɚ] adj.
類似的 - decrease [dɪˋkris] v.
減少，降低 - pick up
買到 - at present
目前 - after all
畢竟 - go to waste
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