Foodio

Our team. From left to right: Anant, Ayush, Ananya, Shaurya
Our starting screen, allowing users to choose their profile
An order being placed
A successful order placed!

Inspiration

Singapore is home to various cultures and with it an array of mouthwatering cuisines. Evidently, the country is one for lovers of food, with so many options to choose from at any time of the day. One can buy lovingly made, economically-priced food from food courts and hawker centres or exquisitely made dishes at high-end restaurants.

However, with this comes a dark side as one can expect. Statistically, we generated 744,000 tonnes of food in the year 2019, leading to a food wastage per capita of around 130 kg per person per year. This figure puts Singapore among the top 10 biggest generators of food waste per capita in the world.

Food is essential for our survival and it hurts to see so much of it go to waste when there are so many underprivileged members of our community who lack access to it. There are a few organisations with the goal to help out these members of the community, such as Food Bank Singapore. Yet, from our research, it appears that the biggest problem faced by such organisations is the lack of reliable information about where they can source food resources from.

We have also noticed from first hand experience that most eateries have leftover food resources, for example, uncooked meals, fruits and vegetables, as they close down at the end of the day. Usually, they are unable to use them to prepare food the next day and the only alternative they have is to dispose of it. How amazing would it be if this massive amount of unused food material could somehow be used to feed those who lack access to food?

What it does

Fret not, as this is part of the solution proposed by our mobile app, Foodio! Our app can seamlessly connect restaurants and other eateries who have leftover food to organisations such as Food Bank that can use this food to feed the needy. We have created a clean and as user-friendly a user interface as any, to help restaurants post updates with how much resources they have and when. On the other side, this will allow food banks to view updates posted by restaurants and request the food that they need.

We sincerely hope that this will help speed up the process for organisations and food banks that lack the information to serve as many people as they can. This will be our contribution to the society that has helped make Singapore home for us.