Tech Company Free Meals Beget a Lot of Leftovers. Meet the Man on a Mission to Rescue Them. – Mother Jones
▻https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/11/leftover-food-tech-lunches-google-juul-linkdin-food-runners-pantry-wast
Marisa Endicott
I meet Les Tso on a corner in San Francisco’s SoMa district on a wet Thursday afternoon. He pulls his silver Isuzu SUV into an alley. “Today because it’s the first rain, people are going to be driving cluelessly—there are a lot of Uber and Lyft drivers that come from out of the area,” Tso warns me. “Makes it more exciting, I guess.”
Ride along with Les Tso on the latest episode of Bite podcast:
Tso works as a driver for Food Runners, a nonprofit that picks up leftover food from grocery stores, companies, events, and restaurants and brings it to organizations working to feed the hungry. For four hours every weekday, Tso braves the worst of Bay Area traffic to makes his 80 to 90 pickups (an average of 16 a day), primarily from tech companies—including Google, Juul, and LinkedIn—that have become an omnipresent force in the city.