A Better Meal Review

            A Better Meal was an attempt to feed the hunger but the means were terrible. The idea to give hungry almost expired food bothered me. I almost did not like the idea of taking excess food from restaurants because what if the food is bad or burnt. Sometimes restaurants are not clean and can hurt the customers if the food is bad. How would the food be regulated? I think it would be better to focus on nonperishable food because you are asking the food banks to rush and cook whatever they are given. Another problem is what if the food the food bank is given has been tampered with? If the food bank received the food, they would have to cook it that day for the homeless and this is a bad idea. Since the food bank already has plans of what is going to be cooked that day, they would need some type of way of knowing what is coming in so they can know what they are expecting and what they may need to change.

            I thought the app was an interesting concept. I thought it was cool how it can look at a receipt and know when the food would be expired. But now that I think about that is problematic and unachievable. How would an app know what day it was made or selected and what kind of app is able to scan the exact food you are talking about? Would this app be tied to every grocery store and have a barcode system linked in? Also how many days would it be before the app lets you know that it is time to take it to the food bank? Final question about the app, will the food you already used automatically disappear or would you have to remove it from the app manually?

            The reach of this app is wild. First of all, no Lyft driver, or Uber, or any driver that gets paid in that way for that matter will driver all the way to someone’s house just to pick up almost expired food and drive it to one of the very few food banks in Memphis just for free. Also, this app is only aimed at older people who go shopping and cook often. Most apps are used for the younger crowds and this does not reach them. Overall, the idea was nice and important to acknowledge but it has more flaws that were not thought out.