Kerala-based start-up launches app to sell surplus/unsold food at restaurants and hotels

Mathews Martin, 1 of the co-founders of Plenti, an app-based surplus/unsold nutrient marketplace, remembers however surplus nutrient was wasted astatine the messiness of the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, wherever helium was an MBA student. That the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) was adjacent doorway and the nutrient could beryllium shared with the radical — bystanders, and patients successful request — was an thought that could not beryllium implemented. The lone enactment was to propulsion it each away. This was not nutrient that had gone bad.   

The Plenti app was launched successful Thiruvananthapuram successful October 2025, and made its debut successful Kochi successful March this year. It lists restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets wherever surplus/unsold food, which would different spell to waste, is disposable and tin beryllium bought astatine one-third the archetypal price.