This Food Delivery App Donates Meals To Children In Need

Sharebite founded by Mohsin Memon is a food delivery ordering app, that has partnered with NYC food charity non-profit, City Harvest to give meals to children in need. 

According to Mohsin, because City Harvest uses leftover cuisine from restaurants and grocery stores, it’s able to keep the cost of its donated meals low — about 23 cents each. When ordering with Sharebite, 2% of the order is donated to City Harvest (users don’t cover donation costs). 

In the month of December 2016, the app is upped its do-gooder game and donated five meals per order to kick start its "Million Meal Mission," a campaign in which Sharebite hopes to donate a million meals to New York kids within a year.

The app also gives restaurants the option to help curb their food waste by allowing them to promote and sell surplus food or dishes. These promotions are featured at the top of the restaurants' pages, and can be altered in real time.

So, for instance, if a restaurant had a special for the day that didn't sell as well as the restaurant had hoped, the restaurant could log on to the app and sell that particular pasta dish at a discounted rate before it closes for the day. This way, restaurants do not have to contribute to the 52.4 million tons of food Americans send to landfills annually.

Sharebite users can also share pictures of dishes they order, rate and recommend individual dishes, and see what food is trending in their neighbourhood.

Memon told HuffPost that he was inspired to create a sustainable business after volunteering to collect and pack food for those in need.

"We all go about our normal days, but it often takes a moment like this to realize the magnitude of a problem," he said.