Food ordering platform leverages New Yorkers’ take-out habits to help end childhood hunger
Press Release – NEW YORK, NY — Sharebite, the only food-ordering platform of its kind to incorporate social good into the very core of its business model, announced today the launch of its million meal mission. With a goal of providing one million meals to children facing hunger in New York City in the next year, Sharebite looks to further build on its innovative, community-sharing user experience that differentiates it from the crowded takeout and delivery industry. In its current partnership with City Harvest, Sharebite helps feed at least one meal to a child in need for every order placed, but to officially kickoff this million meal mission and celebrate this holiday season, Sharebite is increasing the giving to five meals per order placed in the month of December.
With the delivery market valued at $30 billion – and the potential to be worth some $210 billion – Sharebite is the only service working in the cause space. While New Yorkers place hundreds of thousands of takeout orders daily, one in four children in the city face hunger each day. If just 1,000 of those orders came through Sharebite each day, New Yorkers could provide one million meals to these children struggling with hunger – all while doing what they already do, doing so at no additional cost and being part of a powerful online community while doing so.
Sharebite offers users an enhanced, easy to use experience that encourages them to break out of their delivery rut and engage in a true search and discovery experience. This enables them to explore the best their neighborhood has to offer, all while helping end childhood hunger.
Through Sharebite.com and its IOS/Android apps, Sharebite users can browse from more than 2,000 restaurants across New York City and, unlike with other food ordering platforms, can share images of dishes they order, rate and recommend individual dishes, and see what’s trending in their neighborhood. Through user-generated images and community ratings, Sharebite makes decision making and discovering new foods easier. In fact, Sharebite found that people are 64% more likely to branch out and try something new if they can see dish images and ratings, especially if those recommendations come from friends, neighbors and other local users. On the restaurant end, Sharebite is designed to allow restaurants to reduce waste by selling excess inventory of specific dishes at discounted prices on a real-time basis. Sharebite plans to eventually have a system where all remaining waste is eliminated by connecting it to local food banks and shelters.
“The average New Yorker enjoys the luxury of ordering out two to three times per week, yet there are over 400,000 children across the city who don’t have enough food to get by,” said Sharebite Founder and CEO Mohsin Memon. “We’re utilizing the power of technology to solve this problem without sacrificing the convenience that New Yorkers crave. Thus, we created Sharebite as a social impact-focused alternative to other popular food ordering platforms by tapping into what New Yorker’s already do: order food. The average New Yorker could help feed over 300 meals per year to these children facing hunger by simply ordering their takeout on Sharebite.”
Sharebite launched a pilot of its app last holiday season, and in that pilot, users helped to provide more than 50,000 meals to children in New York City. Given that success and the overall demand, Sharebite spent the past year expanding its reach of restaurants and developing a user-friendly transactional web platform to accompany its new apps on IOS and Android mobile devices. Sharebite correlates meals donated to amount spent per transaction, meaning the larger the orders, the more meals are donated to children in need. Sharebite calculates that if everyone who orders take-out in NYC used Sharebite to do so, we would be able to Take-Out Hungerfor children in New York.
For more information on Sharebite and its mission, visit www.sharebite.com.
