Last updated on March 28th, 2025 at 11:24 am
Rescue food, save money and discover new eateries you may have not been aware of. That’s the three-fold attraction of Too Good To Go (TGTG), a food rescue app that allows you to see which cafes, restaurants, bakeries and stores in your local area are selling leftover food, which you can buy at half-price or less. Partners on the Too Good To Go app pack their surplus food into “Surprise Bags” that are sold to customers at as little as 25% of the retail value.
The Too Good to Go app was launched in 2016. Today it has more than 100 million registered users across North America, Europe and Australia.
Too Good To Go is a free app that helps save food from going to waste by connecting consumers with stores, supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, bakeries and donut shops that have surplus food. The food is sold to users in “Surprise Bags” priced at 25-50% of their contents’ original retail value.
Yes. Too Good to Go is a legitimate app. As of March 2025, it has a 4.9 out of 5 star rating in the App store and a 4.8 out of 5 star rating in Google Play.
Yes. Too Good To Go is free and available to download from the App Store (iOS) and Google Play Store (Android devices).
The Too Good To Go app has participating stores in major metropolitan areas around the U.S., including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Austin, Seattle, Miami, Portland, Providence, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Diego, Sacramento, Atlanta, Minneapolis, San Antonio, Tampa, Orlando, Denver, Phoenix, Detroit, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Charleston, Greenville, Huntsville, Birmingham and others.
Since its launch in Canada in 2021, Too Good To Go has expanded to nearly every Canadian province. The app has participating stores in many towns and cities, including Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Ottawa, Quebec City and Halifax.
According to the Too Good To Go Privacy Policy, “Our Platform is intended for Users 18 years of age or older, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from data subjects under the age of 16. When we become aware that personal information (or other information that is protected under applicable law) from a child under 16 has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our databases.”
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- A list of local stores with available Surprise Bags is displayed to you in the app; enable location access to see the stores in your area. The default search setting is 20 miles in every direction.
- The food is bundled up in what Too Good To Go calls “Surprise Bags.” Typically you will only have a general idea of what your order will include (for example sandwiches and salads, or muffins and pastries), hence the name Surprise Bag. It ensures stores have the flexibility to sell genuine surplus food, as stores can’t predict exactly what kind of food they will have left at the end of the day.
- Place a reservation for an available Surprise Bag from a store you select in the app.
- Pay for the Surprise Bag via the payment method (e.g., credit card, debit card, PayPal, etc.) you have associated with your user profile in the app. Click ‘Reserve,’ select quantity, and double-click to pay.
- Pick up your reserved Surprise Bag at the relevant store during the time-period provided by the store.
The feed of available Surprise Bags updates in real time. New food may become available throughout the day.
Surprise Bags are picked up in-store within the time window specified in the item listing in the Too Good To Go app. When you arrive at the store, you show the app and swipe the in-app slider as proof of your reservation, at which point the store staff will hand you your Surprise Bag.
No. You cannot pay cash in-store; all purchases must be made through the Too Good To Go app.
In some cases, yes. The “dynamic price” tag you see on some Surprise Bags reflects how the price may change depending on:
- Time of day, and
- Interest in the Surprise Bag
The price you see next to a sold-out Surprise Bag is the price the Surprise Bag sold for last.
By making a reservation in the Too Good To Go app, you reserve a Surprise Bag which may or may not be available for pickup.
You may cancel a reservation within the app at any time before the earlier of: the conclusion of pickup; or the end of the pickup time listed by the store. You need to communicate your decision to cancel your reservation to Too Good To Go via the complaint link in the app.
If you do not pick up your reserved Surprise Bag within the time period set out in your reservation confirmation, the Surprise Bag may no longer be available and Too Good To Go can charge you for the reservation price. In the U.S. and Canada, prices are exclusive of applicable sales taxes.
Yes. Stores may cancel your reservation until one (1) hour before the beginning of the agreed pickup time. A store may cancel later than one hour before the pickup time if needed if the store sells out of the food they anticipated to be surplus at time of pickup.
The company takes a commission fee for each “surprise bag” sold through the app; it also charges an annual membership fee to stores who list their unsold food on the platform.
The company describes its business model as “win-win-win.” That is, it helps businesses “unlock” revenue from surplus food, helps consumers enjoy good food at great prices, and helps its business partners (and consumers) protect the environment.
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Too Good To Go Special Rewards come from the company’s partners and are included in the “Surprise Bags” purchased by users. Typically, a Special Reward is a free product or a discount that can be used in the store. You won’t know in advance which Surprise Bags include a Special Reward.
Yes. Other food rescue apps include Goodie Bag and Flashfood.
It’s worth signing up to receive notifications from Too Good To Go (navigate to Notifications on the Manage Account page). Via email notifications and push notifications you can learn about new stores in your area, and receive important updates related to your reserved Surprise Bag(s). You can also choose which days of the week you’d like to be reminded about opportunities to save food via Too Good To Go.
No. Because the food included in Surprise Bags is a surprise, Too Good To Go has no way to offer upfront information about allergens.
All Good Points has tested the Too Good To Go app in Nashville, Tennessee, where a wide range of restaurants, donut shops and convenience stores have partnered with TGTG.
Following is a partial list of eateries and stores we have seen featured in the app:
– Whole Foods
– Tiff’s Treats
– Two Hands
– Krispy Kreme
– Shipley Do-Nuts
– Ugly Bagel
– Red Bicycle Coffee & Crepes
– Honest Coffee Roasters
– Circle K
– Xtra Diner Gyro and Grill
– Chicago Style Gyros
– Steam Boys
– Eggstravaganza Café
– Pink Door Cookies
– Susie Cakes
– The Cupcake Collection
– Corky’s Ribs & BBQ
– District Coffee
– Colts Chocolates
– Bellagio Pizza
– Pizza Ranch
– Local Joe’s
– Eat Bubbles
– Apple Spice Co.
– Franklin Juice Co.
– The Cafe at Thistle Farms
The Too Good To Go app is available for iOS download in the App Store, and for Android via Google Play.
Founded: 2015
Founders: Thomas Bjørn Momsen, Stian M. H. Olesen and Klaus Bagge Pedersen
CEO: Mette Lykke
Headquarters: Copenhagen, Denmark
Registered Users: More than 100 million in 19 countries
Active Business Partners: More than 175,000
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