Another year older, wiser, greener and evolving - isn’t that what makes a birthday? We hope so!

Over the past month, Replate turned seven years old. What began as Maen’s one-man food recovery operation in San Francisco now spans across the U.S., and back to his roots in the Middle East. 

Since 2016, we’ve served over 3 million nutritious meals to nonprofit organizations, saving 985 million gallons of water and diverting 3,686 tons of carbon dioxide from the air. We’ve navigated the ups and downs of a pandemic, recession, and industry transformation.

Our work brought us around the country and overseas, to events, workshops and new platforms. And in the process, we’ve grown a little taller and learned a lot - the ambition is only getting grander!

Other noteworthy highlights:

• We partnered with DoorDash to extend logistical opportunities in new territories.

• We’ve served 1,500+ businesses worldwide.

• We were featured in Fortune, the New York Times, Business Insider, and Fast Company.

• We extended our corporate relationships by partnering with incredible catering companies like Fooda, ezCater and Cater2Me.

• We were on TMZ!

• We partnered with Beyond Meat to provide additional support for those facing food insecurity during the COVID-19 outbreak.

• We supported the Food Donation Improvement Act in Washington, and spoke at the annual ReFED Summit.

• We enhanced our platform to include source reduction tools, and better analytics to help clients not only donate food, but prevent waste in the future.

• We got merch!

• We hosted a food waste prevention youth event with the Golden State Warriors.

• We were the official food recovery partner of Expo2020 in Dubai.

• We weathered a few storms and are still smiling…

Cheers to seven great years…and many, many more! We’re not even a tween yet!