Founded in 2016 by three citizens, HopHopFood, an association recognized as being in the public interest, fights against precariousness and food waste at the same time, through digital tools (app). It’s the solidarity anti-waste!
In 2018, it launched Europe’s first platform for food donations between private individuals.
In 2020, it completed its platform with donations of unsold goods from professionals, becoming for them a possible alternative to the cut-price applications of start-ups.
HopHopFood is aimed at people in “precarious situations”, who have a roof over their heads but too little “left to live on” to feed themselves properly with 3 meals a day (in France 17 M, 25% of the population, often invisible).
Beneficiaries are validated in precarious situations by access codes given by recognized institutions that suppoort them. It’s food aid 2.0, digital, with no logistics and no need for volunteers to collect or distribute food (no greenhouse gas emissions). Beneficiaries play an active role, picking up their free food directly and autonomously.
Donations (takeaway baskets or ready-to-eat meals) allow distribution actors (supermarkets and artisans), collective catering (central kitchens, school cafeterias, nursing homes, hospitals, etc.), and commercial sectors (hotels and restaurants) to reduce waste while valuing their donations at 60% of their value (tax deductions).
HopHopFood already has a dozen branches in France and, by early 2025, will enable 18,000 people to eat for free. Since 2018 the equivalent of 7 million meals has been donated, saving 3,000 tons of CO².
Chef and ambassador Guillaume Gomez is the national patron, joined by local patrons such as Sébastien Richard and Ludovic Turac in Marseille, and Mathieu Viannay, Gregory Cuilleron iand Christian Têtedoie in Lyon.
