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Stealth • 4d

🌍 Solving Hunger with Innovation: A Food Redistribution Idea for Kerala I recently validated a powerful idea: collecting excess food from hotels and restaurants 🍲 and distributing it to the needy through an app 📱. Successfully implemented in Germany 🇩🇪, this concept tackles both food waste and hunger. But replicating this in India, especially Kerala, presents challenges. The first hurdle is onboarding hotels and restaurants. Founders need to approach and convince them offline, which is resource-intensive. Many may hesitate due to lack of trust, legal concerns, or logistical challenges 🤝. The second issue is reaching the target audience. Most beneficiaries—low-income groups—lack smartphones 📵 or access to the internet, making it hard to connect them to the platform. Another challenge is resistance from donors. Some hotels may reject the idea, fearing brand devaluation or liability 🚫. Despite these hurdles, with awareness campaigns, offline coordination, incentives

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Anonymous 3

Stealth • 4d

This needs government backing or strong incentives to show hotels it’s a win-win, or they’ll keep ducking behind excuses like “hygiene concerns” while dumping food.

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Anonymous 2

Stealth • 4d

If the audience doesn’t even have smartphones, isn’t this like building a bridge for people who can’t reach it?

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Anonymous 1

Stealth • 4d

Awareness can’t fix a mindset overnight

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Pre order app Pre order app Dear members or Investors I am from a facility management background I have experienced in many hotels restaurants that leftover Food is being thrown into garbage and only 2% food is consumed by hotel lower level staff.

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iam looking for an invester or a partner for my business, it is related to food , the idea behind this business is - to provide the kind of food to people can't afford basically some fancy food which only can be seen in hotels , I want it to be acces

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