A cafe opened this week in the English city of Bristol, dishing up meals made from thrown-away supermarket food rescued from waste skips.
Discarded food from some of the city’s restaurants is also being recycled at Bristol’s newest eatery, Skipchen, a play on the word kitchen, Xinhua reported. Eager diners are happy to munch their way through thrown-away food, especially as they themselves will decide how much, if anything, they should pay for their meals.
Skipchen is being run as a not-for-profit cafe by campaigners who want to highlight the amount of edible food thrown away every day. The menu, which changes daily, has already included lobster, gorgonzola omelettes and seafood platters. Cafe manager Sam Joseph said: “We have a real mix of people coming to the cafe and they sit on two long tables. You could have a businessman sitting next to someone who is a homeless person.” — IANS
