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Volunteer drivers use an Uber-like app to find grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores with food to donate. Rather than it going to the dump when it s still good, fresh and healthy, we ll redirect it and bring it to food pantries, soup kitchens, those kinds of places, said Chief Operating Officer Eileen Budo. And their customers are wanting the food right away. So, the shorter shelf life matches up with the type of food location that we re bringing the food to.
About 250 people actively volunteer for deliveries. Budo says there s lots of room to grow. We keep getting more calls of different food purveyors that have food that s available, so we need new rescue volunteers all the time. We re growing like crazy, Budo said. We probably rescue from about four or five different Krogers in Cincinnati, but there are total a 70 that are in our realm of possibility. And that s a rescue every day, six days a week.