Pub chain Greene King is expanding its partnership with food waste app Too Good To Go - and you’ll be able to buy discount beer.
Punters can purchase a “Magic Pints” bag containing four pints of excess cask ale through the app for £5.75
This works out at around £1.44 a pint - and you’re saving the booze from being tipped down the drain.
Greene King first trialled its “Magic Pints” bags in the 2021 lockdown but it is now extending it across its pubs.
The partnership with Too Good To Go is currently active in around 650 boozers. This will grow to around 900 further pubs throughout 2022.
Too Good To Go lets people buy surplus food and drink through its app to stop it from going to waste.
Some of the other companies that work with the food-waste app include Costa, Morrisons, Starbucks and Greggs, with bags starting from around £2 to £3.
What goods you’ll receive in your “Magic Bag” is always a surprise though, as it depends on what food is going out of date that day.
This means you can’t pick and choose what food you want. You just choose to buy a bag, select a time and then show up at your chosen food chain.
Andy Wilson MBE, managing director of Greene King’s Destination Food Brands pubs said: “Reducing waste is really important to us, so this is a brilliant way to stop great cask ale being thrown away needlessly.
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“It’s so easy to just check the app, see what’s available nearby, buy it and then go and pick it up. It’s good for the customer, it’s good for the pub and it’s good for the planet.”
Paschalis Loucaides, Too Good to Go managing director added: “I’m delighted to be expanding our partnership with Greene King with the launch of our new Magic Pints offering.
“We’ve already seen amazing results since we launched our partnership back in 2018, including during our Magic Pints trial last year, and so I’m excited to take our partnership to even greater heights with this new initiative.
“Our recent survey found that beer and cider are the most likely items to go to waste in pubs and this not only carries a huge cost for businesses, but it is greatly impacting our planet too.”
We've seen how Too Good To Go bags can save shoppers money.
Mum-of-one Sarah Colley explained how she saved £2,340 using the food waste app - including full boxes of food worth £50 for just £3.09.
Sarah estimates that she saved on average about £30 a week over lockdown.
Meanwhile, a student shared how she saved £50 on Costa and Marks and Spencer food by purchasing Too Good To Go bags.
Paige Whysall spent just £9 on the “Magic Bags” which were packed with almost £60 worth of food.
