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Too Good to Go App Launches in CT to Help Fight Food Waste and Save on Meals

Features Fight Hunger Food Waste App Food Tech

Sam Schwab

The Too Good to Go app, which aims to help fight food waste, launched in Connecticut this past week. The free mobile app connects its users to local businesses with surplus food. When using the platform, consumers are able to access unsold food at a fraction of its retail price. Instead of businesses throwing away perfectly good food at the end of the day, they list a ‘Surprise Bag’ on the Too Good to Go app that users are able to purchase. According to the app’s website, the ‘Surprise Bags’ are sold at 25-50% of their contents' original retail value — a win-win-win for businesses, customers, and the environment. 

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Swyft Revisited: Tavern Fare, Fine Dining, and What's Up with Ore Hill

Features Interview Restaurant Swyft Kent Swyft Kent Pizza burgers Homepage Fine Dining Ore Hill

Andrew Dominick

So much has changed since we last covered Swyft’s modern tavern concept located on Kent’s main drag.

Like most restaurants, Swyft had to deal with pandemic restrictions. But unlike most restaurants, they had to get up off the mat three more times. Lauded chef and partner Joel Viehland parted ways with Swyft around the time COVID shutdowns hit Connecticut.

Mere weeks after Viehland’s exit, Swyft’s owner, philanthropist Anne Bass, sadly passed away on April 1, 2020, after a battle with ovarian cancer.

And if that wasn’t enough, dynamo pastry chef Anthony D’Amelio went off to pursue other goals sometime last year.

We know, that’s a lot to take in.

According to Allison Mitchell—who’s essentially Swyft’s Swiss Army Knife as she handles social media, does photography, coordinates events, waits tables, bartends, and somehow fits in marketing duties—Swyft went through a “huge overhaul.”

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