No Halo News · Sourced development
Food Rescue US unveils point-of-sale tool intended to make restaurant food donation easier
Food Rescue US, ReFED and Toast presented DonorLink during Climate Week NYC. The tool is designed to integrate surplus-food donation into restaurant point-of-sale workflows, reducing the steps businesses must take to offer food for rescue. Toast's broader platform is used by more than 160,000 restaurants, but the consulted material did not report how many had activated DonorLink.
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Donor relevance
Why this matters
Embedding donation options into software restaurants already use could remove a practical barrier to rescuing prepared food, helping nonprofit agencies obtain fresh food while reducing disposal and associated environmental harm. The integration is a notable operating innovation even though adoption and food-recovery results are not yet available.
Attribution
Who reported or established this
The innovation was described in the official Climate Week NYC event listing by participating organizations Food Rescue US, ReFED and Toast.
Evidence limits
What remains unverified
No Halo has not established how many restaurants are using DonorLink, how much additional food it has rescued, whether donations would otherwise have been discarded or whether the tool produces sustained increases in food recovery.
Right of reply
Organization response
Food Rescue US presented DonorLink as a way to turn surplus food into meals by connecting restaurant donations with its volunteer-supported rescue and delivery network. No separate response addressing implementation results was located in the consulted material.
Classification
How No Halo records this event
Event type: Operational Expansion. Current state: Reported. No Halo preserves the current procedural state rather than treating every mention as a finding.
Published September 22, 2026 · Last verified September 23, 2026. See an error or a later outcome? Submit a correction or right of reply.