Case Study · Consumer App · Live on iOS & Android
Last Call
Fighting food waste by connecting hungry people with surplus meals from restaurants and grocers, before it’s too late.
The challenge
South Africa wastes around 10 million tonnes of food every year, nearly a third of everything produced, while customers around the corner would happily buy surplus meals at a discount. The hard part is timing: surplus inventory appears suddenly and expires in hours.
Last Call needed real-time inventory from vendors, location-based discovery for users, and checkout fast enough to beat the clock.
Deals that find you
Location-based querying surfaces the closest available deals the moment vendors post them. Real-time inventory means what you see is genuinely still in the kitchen.
- Location-based deal discovery
- Real-time vendor inventory updates
- Rapid checkout before last-call times expire
Delivered while it’s still warm
Uber Direct integration brings real-time delivery to surplus meals, turning a pickup-only model into doorstep rescue missions, tracked live in the app. Charity bags can even be donated straight to local food banks and shelters.
- Uber Direct real-time delivery
- Live courier tracking
- Charity bags donated to food banks
The store portal and rescue calendar
Restaurants and grocers run Last Call from a simple backend: list surplus bags in seconds, set pickup windows on a live calendar and watch rescue stats climb.
- One-tap surplus bag listings
- Pickup window calendar per store
- Rescue and revenue reporting