Tokyo-based startup Planet Table launched an online food ordering platform called Send in August, aiming to connect food producers and restaurant chefs directly. When crop, dairy and livestock farmers register their data into the platform, consumers such as restaurants can directly purchase the farm products, and Planet Table delivers them all at once. For both the food suppliers and consumers, orders are collected together in one lump payment and not processed as individual orders. The…
How one startup connects farmers and restaurants in Japan to eliminate food waste
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