ResQFood's vision is to build a world where delicious food doesn't end up in the trash. By bringing together restaurants and individuals, we create a win-win scenario for everyone involved.
This platform is dedicated to the noble cause of reducing food wastage by facilitating the redistribution of surplus food during late-night hours before restaurant closures. Our mission is to ensure that excess inventory finds a purposeful destination rather than ending up in landfills, contributing to a more sustainable and compassionate food ecosystem.
It is a mobile app designed to connect restaurants with individuals looking for a delicious and affordable meal while tackling food waste. It empowers restaurants to utilize leftover food instead of discarding it and provides individuals with access to great deals on quality food.
- For Restaurants:
- Listing & Profile: Restaurants can create profiles, and add their contact information, cuisine type, and operating hours. Food Inventory:
- Adding Leftovers: Restaurants can easily add leftover food items (quantity, description, estimated value).
- Categorization: Ability to categorize leftovers (e.g., appetizers, main courses, desserts) for easier search.
- Pricing: Restaurants can set prices (free, discounted, etc.) for leftovers.
- Pickup Window: Restaurants can specify a pickup time window to avoid leftovers sitting out for too long.
- Notifications: Receive real-time notifications when someone claims their leftovers.
- Tracking & Analytics: Restaurants can see how much food they've saved from waste and track overall usage.
- For Individuals:
- Search & Filter: Users can search for leftover food based on location, cuisine type, price, and pickup window.
- Ordering & Pickup: Users can claim leftovers and receive directions to the restaurant for pickup.
- Payment Integration: Users can pay for leftovers if the restaurant has a fee.
- Order History: Users can keep track of their previous orders.
- Rating & Reviews: Users can review restaurants and leftovers to help other users.
- For Both:
- Communication: In-app messaging system for restaurants and users to communicate about orders (e.g., special requests, dietary restrictions).
- Location Services: Accurate location mapping for finding nearby restaurants and pickup locations.
- Safety & Security: Measures to ensure the safety of both parties involved (e.g., verified restaurant profiles, user ratings).
- Community Building: A platform to connect restaurants and individuals to raise awareness about food waste and sustainability.
- Additional Features (Optional):
- Food Donation: Partner with food banks or charities to facilitate donations of leftover food.
- Delivery Service: Offer a delivery service for leftovers (could be a paid feature).
- Sustainability Features: Integrate features that educate users about food waste and sustainability (e.g., carbon footprint calculators).
ResQFood streamlines the process of connecting restaurants with either Directly with the needy ones or to a nearby establishments or charitable organizations, enabling them to efficiently redistribute surplus food. Through our platform, restaurants can easily upload information about the available surplus food, and establishments or organizations in need can browse and request donations. This seamless connection ensures that surplus food gets to those who need it most, even during the late hours when traditional donation channels may not be available.
- Efficient Redistribution: Our platform enables restaurants to quickly connect with nearby establishments or charitable organizations to redistribute surplus food before closing time.
- Real-time Updates: Restaurants can update available surplus food in real-time, ensuring accurate and timely information for potential recipients.
- Sustainability: By diverting surplus food from landfills, ResQFood contributes to a more sustainable food ecosystem and reduces environmental impact.
- Compassionate Giving: Charitable organizations and establishments in need can easily browse and request donations, ensuring that surplus food reaches those who need it most.
- Jetpack
- Compose: Modern toolkit for building native UI.
- Navigation: Navigation component for Jetpack Compose.
- ViewModel: Store UI-related data that isn't destroyed on UI changes.
- Room: SQLite object mapping library.
- Paging 3: Load and display small chunks of data at a time.
- Hilt: Dependency injection library for Android.
- Retrofit: Type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java.
- Coroutines: For managing background threads with simplified code and reducing needs for callbacks. with Flow.
- Coil: Image loading library for Android backed by Kotlin Coroutines.
- Gson : A Java serialization/deserialization library to convert Java Objects into JSON and back.
ResQFood follows the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) architecture pattern, which separates the presentation layer from the business logic and data handling. This architecture pattern helps to create a modular, scalable, and testable codebase.
- To get started with ResQFood, follow these steps:
- Give a star to this repository.
- Fork this repository.
- Clone the forked repository to your local machine.
- Create a new branch for your changes.
- Make your changes and commit them.
- Push your changes to your forked repository.
- Create a pull request to the
mainbranch of this repository.
Reduces Food Waste: Food waste is a major environmental and economic problem. ResQFood helps restaurants reduce their waste and minimize their environmental footprint. Saves Money: Restaurants can recover some of their costs by selling leftover food at reduced prices. Individuals can enjoy delicious meals at a fraction of the original cost. Supports Local Restaurants: ResQFood strengthens local communities by supporting small businesses and helping them operate more sustainably. Promotes Food Security: By making affordable food more accessible, ResQFood contributes to food security, especially for individuals who may be facing food insecurity.
We welcome contributions from the community to help improve and expand ResQFood. Whether you're a developer, designer, or passionate about our cause, we'd love to have you on board! Check out our learn to get started.
If you have any questions, feedback, or need assistance, feel free to reach out to us at discussion panel We're here to help!
ResQFood is licensed under the MIT License.