Results achieved
- +1,000,000 kilos of food rescued
- +1,000,000 app downloads
- +2,000 businesses offer their surplus food through the app every day
Who is GoodMeal
GoodMeal is a Chilean sustainable food app that helps businesses save money and fight food waste. Partner businesses sell surplus food that is close to its expiration date or cosmetically imperfect at discounts of up to 70%, and the startup works with brands such as Starbucks, Juan Valdez, Dunkin' Donuts and Líder.
In December 2022, the brand launched GoodMeal Market, an in-app e-commerce store focused on brands that produce and distribute food with surplus stock, such as NotCo, Soprole and Coca-Cola.
“We know many businesses have leftover food at the end of the day, food in perfect condition that, if it isn't sold, ends up wasted and thrown away. Food waste is a massive problem, and we want to make an impact across the entire chain”
José Castro — Co-founder & CTO, GoodMeal
Technology revolutionizing the food chain
In Google Cloud, GoodMeal found the infrastructure it needed to keep its app secure, with a cost model suited to a startup. To deliver an increasingly personalized experience, the company adopted Google Maps Platform solutions: the Geocoding API to locate users, the Distance Matrix API to calculate the distance to each restaurant, the Dynamics Maps API to display the route, and the Places API for business addresses and opening hours.
In late 2021, the company began hosting its infrastructure in the cloud with Compute Engine, Cloud SQL and Cloud Filestore. Since 2020, the startup has helped rescue more than 1 million kilos of food and connected more than 1 million people with more than 2,000 partner businesses, with plans to expand across Latin America.
“We hope Google and Maplink, with their services and technical support, can help us in our mission to fight food waste and change the way people think about food”
José Castro — Co-founder & CTO, GoodMeal
