NYC Food Delivery App Turns Takeout Into a Good Deed

I will be the first to advocate for cooking a meal at home, using the freshest, cleanest ingredients, and then sharing your meal around the dinner table with loved ones. It saves you money and possibly even lowers your carbon-footprint (especially if you’re driving or consuming plastic packaging, yuck!). However, this NYC food delivery platform, Sharebite, is giving consumers an opportunity to give back, rather than simply takeout.

“When users order a meal from one of more than 2,000 restaurants listed on the platform, several meals are donated to City Harvest, a New York City nonprofit focused on feeding the city’s hungry children.” -NBC News

Transparency is Key in the Good Food Movement

Kitchfix, is a Chicago company that built its meal delivery business on a commitment to sourcing as many locally and sustainably produced ingredients as possible. The owner of the company, Josh Katt, recognized that more and more consumers want to know where their food is coming from, and increasingly are demanding that producers be upfront about it. That prompted Katt to develop the Kitchfix True Food Transparency program, which the company is rolling out this week.

Food Access and Policy: The Impact of a Grocery Store

In partnership with NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College, Civil Eats published an in-depth article discussing the impacts of grocers and greenmarkets in neighborhoods struggling with food insecurity and healthy food access.

Many of us might assume that increased access to healthy food would have a substantial impact on people’s consumption of healthy food. For example, if there are more places selling whole, fresh fruits and vegetables and increased options available in low-income areas or in food deserts, then those people living there will more likely eat those whole, fresh fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.

Our current dilemma, a decline in public health, is a complex issue to say the least. People need more than just healthy food! They need clean, healthy spaces, and loving support from family, friends and community, to change their lifestyle and improve their habits. Issues of poverty, food pricing, education, and transportation also factor into whether people will consume healthier foods.