Utah business cuts down food waste, fights inflation too

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah enterprise is making an attempt to chop down on meals waste by reducing prices.

Extrabites is a web based market the place companies in Salt Lake and Utah counties promote any additional meals they’ve on the finish of every day.

CEO and co-founder Luccin Ifote stated he needs to deal with meals waste and stated Utah is the right place to begin.

“Coming from a 3rd world nation, I’m from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we as Individuals take meals waste without any consideration,” Ifote stated.

He’s partnered with a number of eating places, bakeries and grocery shops to chop down on what they throw within the dumpster. He stated, in the previous few months, Extrabites has helped Utah companies reduce down on greater than 2,000 kilos of meals waste.

Customers join textual content notifications. They’ll get a message about any leftover meals obtainable. Gadgets go on sale for as much as 70 p.c off. They’ll go decide it up in particular person.

“They go forward and publish it on our market, then you definately’ll get a notification saying, ‘hey, Chubby Baker, as an example, has surplus gadgets,” Ifote stated.

Ying Nance owns Chubby Baker and stated it’s onerous to foretell what number of meals gadgets will probably be bought on any given day.

“Some days we did the suitable forecast, some days it’s simply slower than regular and we find yourself having plenty of donuts we have now to throw away,” Nance stated.

She stated Extrabites permits much more folks to purchase her pastries with out breaking the financial institution.

“It’s good to be realizing they get to attempt our stuff for a less expensive value,” she stated.

She stated since partnering with Extrabites, she’s thrown away round 50 fewer donuts every day as a result of individuals are shopping for them on-line.

“It’s good that we are able to no less than make some cash from that and never have any meals waste,” Nance stated.

Ifote stated Extrabites customers have instructed him it’s helped them out so much, particularly with the price of inflation.

“It’s been in a position to assist them get monetary savings to get their youngsters an additional pair of footwear, or denims…it’s been actually useful for these households that aren’t in a position to afford each day costs,” he stated.

Any enterprise inquisitive about partnering with Extrabites can enroll as a vendor on the web site.

Ifote stated Extrabites is working to broaden to Southern Utah quickly.