Surplus Food at a Discount: Malta’s Version of Too Good To Go Is Now Live

Malta’s relationship with food waste has historically been best described as aggressively unbothered. So the arrival of Foodhero — a local app that launched in late May doing exactly what Too Good To Go does across the globe — feels less like a trend import and more like an overdue correction.

The concept is straightforward: restaurants, cafés, bakeries and food businesses list surplus meals and produce at significantly reduced prices, you pick them up before they hit the bin, everyone wins. Morally and financially. Three weeks in, the app has already saved 183 meals, 73kg of food and prevented 153kg of CO₂ in Malta.

Currently on the app: artisanal pizzas and pizza dough wraps from Bkry No. 4 in Gżira, French patisserie from Marie Boutique Patisserie, and surplus bags from the likes of Clouds Express, Delizie Siciliane, La Salumeria, Ta’ Lahwa Pastizzeria, Il-Kċejna, Quality Fruit and Vegetables, Swieqi Convenience Market & Café, and What a Cookie. Each listing shows a pickup window, distance from your location, and the discounted price — a Tuscan bean stew from Il-Kċejna in Attard, for instance, was listed at €3.99 against a €10.00 original value, and a Sweet Surprise bag from Clouds Express at €4.49 against €12.00.

Getting started takes about two minutes. Download the app, create an account, browse rescue meals near you, pay through the app, collect at the listed time. That’s it.

For restaurants and food businesses

Malta has seen attempts at this kind of platform before. They didn’t last. If you’re running a kitchen, a bakery or a café and regularly throwing away end-of-day stock, listing your surplus is straightforward. Signing up is as easy as pie!

Food waste is a global problem. Nice that Malta is now actively in the conversation.

Foodhero
Available on iOS and Android
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