Nonprofits and volunteers in Florida are working to donate the leftover concessions and catering to food pantries and shelters.
Champions gear. The league undoubtedly had two versions of the ad ready to go, and if the San Francisco 49ers had a better second-half defense, their logos might've been the ones that were printed on those $34.99 t-shirts.
But what about the tons of food that wasn't eaten during Sunday's super-sized game? Thanks to the work of several non-profits and their volunteers, an estimated 30,000 pounds of food will be distributed to five shelters in southern Florida this week. The massive undertaking is—surprisingly—the first major food recovery effort to follow a Super Bowl.
Food Rescue US, which is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, was founded in 2011, when software developer Jeff Schacher started to wonder what the restaurants who used his program could be doing to cut back on the amount of food they threw out. "I pitched the idea to my team. We started calling some restaurant operators and some support agencies and there was definitely food to save and definitely people that needed it,"on the Food Rescue US website.
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