{"id":2939,"date":"2015-02-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2015-02-05T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T21:00:00","slug":"leftover-food-restaurants-feeds-needy-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/leftover-food-restaurants-feeds-needy-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftover food from restaurants feeds the needy with this app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how much food your restaurant is really throwing away? Many restaurants end up with surplus food that goes to waste. Couldn&#8217;t someone, somewhere, could still eat this food? That\u2019s what Raj Karmani thought, so he created a brand new app and service to help take surplus food from grocery stores and restaurants in Chicago and give it to local nonprofits.<\/p>\n<p>The service is called Zero Percent. A specialized rush delivery team makes sure perishable items go to needy people so they can eat healthier. Also, a partnership with the Inspiration Corporation created a way for the homeless to learn food service training to find jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article here: <a title=\"Leftover Restaurant Food Helps Needy With New App\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/chicago\/20141103\/lincoln-park\/leftover-restaurant-food-helps-needy-with-new-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leftover Restaurant Food Helps Needy With New App<\/a><br \/>\n[sc:mbta]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how much food your restaurant is really throwing away? Many restaurants end up with surplus food that goes to waste. Couldn&#8217;t someone, somewhere, could still eat this food? That\u2019s what Raj Karmani thought, so he created a brand new app and service to help take surplus food from grocery stores and restaurants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}