How to help restaurants reduce food waste by selling surplus through the Foodobox mobile app
What do you do when you have a surplus of food? Do you just throw it out or is there a sustainable solution? Well today we’re chatting with Jane Dimitrova, a fascinating entrepreneur from Bulgaria who is helping tackle that problem by developing the first mobile app in Bulgaria to tackle food waste - Foodobox. Jane has a fascinating background having worked in Italy and Argentina, and also interned at P&G. According to her, people in Bulgaria are often quite skeptical about innovations and major changes. Hear how she’s confronting these obstacles and trying to get her startup off the ground.
Highlights:
- 1:14 – where did you grow up and how has that shaped your view of the world?
- 3:26 – what was your early career path like?
- 5:10 – is Buenos Aires like the Paris of South America
- 6:10 – how were you robbed?
- 7:27 – what were some responsibilities you had at Food to Go?
- 9:50 – when did you have an aha moment that you can launch a company in Bulgaria?
- 11:52 – what do customer like about Foodobox when they discover it?
- 13:00 – does the customer have an idea of what they’re receiving?
- 13:55 – who was the first investor in Foodobox and what was that experience like?
- 15:15 – has it been hard to grow a ‘sustainability like’ business in Bulgaria?
- 16:31 – what trends are you seeing in the food industry that will continue to gain traction?
- 17:35 – what’s next for you personally?
- 18:35 – is there a book or podcast that has impacted the way you run your business?
Make sure to stick around for the Innovators Can Laugh segment! You won’t want to miss Jane’s hilarious answers!
Do you wish to connect with our special guest?
Visit Jane’s website: https://foodobox.com/
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Past guests on Innovators Can Laugh include Yannik Veys, Ovi Negrean, Arnaud Belinga, Csaba Zajdó, Dagobert Renouf, Andrei Zinkevich, Viktorija Cijunskyte, Lukas Kaminskis, Pija Indriunaite, Monika Paule, PhD, Vytautas Zabulis, Leon van der Laan, Ieva Vaitkevičiūtė.
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