another entrant in the sharing economy: a barter system for leftovers. it works much better than you’d think.

it’s built on the premise of people who don’t know each other sharing homemade food, with no money exchanged. Picture scaling that up to an entire city, far beyond anyone’s natural circle of trust.

by not charging they are doing an end run around health inspections. we’ll see how long that lasts. i have heard anecdotally that pro chefs are interested in this model because it would allow them to get rid of the parts of a restaurant that they aren’t as good at (getting a space, dealing with people etc) and just focus on the cooking.

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