Historical November–December 2015 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Launched on September 30th, the FoodShare iPhone Application helps St. Louis locals discover and recommend restaurants, while transforming restaurants into social enterprises to fight hunger in St. Louis.
This is aimed to solve the St. Louis hunger problem where 17.5% of the population is daily food insecure and do not know where they will find their next meal. Created by student entrepreneurs, Andrew Glantz (Washington University in St. Louis ‘17), Aidan Folbe (Dartmouth College ‘19), and Jacob Mohrmann (Washington University in St. Louis ’16), FoodShare seeks to fight hunger in St. Louis: every time a user eats at a FoodShare partnered restaurant, FoodShare donates a meal to someone in need. Already, over 800 meals have been donated! App users have the option to recommend restaurants to their social networks, as well as include a personalized message and a photo of their meal. For every referral that dines at the recommended restaurant, FoodShare donates an additional meal. FoodShare also donates an additional meal if a user shares their FoodShare dining experience on Facebook through the App. FoodShare’s CEO Andrew Glantz believes that FoodShare offers unique value.
He states: “FoodShare effectively and efficiently digitalizes word-of-mouth restaurant recommendations. Unlike impersonal and unreliable third-party reviews, FoodShare referrals are trustworthy since they originate directly from users’ friends”.
According to a Harvard Business School study, 16% of Yelp reviews are fake, and according to Marketing Land, 47% of people do not trust most Yelp reviews. FoodShare solves these problems. FoodShare has signed on over 50 partner restaurants so far, and aims to capture the St. Louis market prior to expanding to other cities. Several nearby Loop restaurants are participating, including Blueberry Hill, Cicero’s, Three Kings, Pi, Eclipse, Salt and Smoke, Peacock Diner, Seoul Taco, Ranoush, Market Pub, Blueprint Coffee, Pin Up Bowl, and many in CWE and other neighborhoods in St. Louis..
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At Nine Network, Paul Heirendt with Andrew Glantz and Aidan Folbe.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, November–December 2015.
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