FoodMine is a sustainable food marketplace that connects supermarkets, bakeries, and restaurants to consumers. Merchants can list their surplus food products on our app platform, and then customers can make reservations, prepay for the purchase on our app, and self-pickup at the store at a discounted price. The app incorporates technology that not only helps users to locate their nearest shop to visit in real-time, but AI is also utilised to predict and automate people’s food orders, learn from their preferences and behaviour, and to predict what they would like to eat in the next purchase. We premised this idea on the discounted products often found available in retailers after 7 pm, which inspired us to create an app to provide customers with an option to access these products. Our goal is to promote food sustainability, offer more consumer choices at a discounted price, and allow merchants to show their commitment to CSR and sustainability.

While the main attraction point for users is the discounted food price and the good feeling of saving food, the benefits to merchants are fourfold: 1) they can be an ambassador of sustainability by joining our sustainable food map and getting a display label for their stores; 2) they can enjoy marketing opportunities on our platform for their sustainability stories; 3) they can maximise profit by selling all products, and 4) they can obtain data analytics for user preferences on their products. To extend the marketing effect of sustainability, we will further the promotion by introducing different merchants’ stories via the sustainability food map on our website, as well as our social media account.

組長
Team Leader
鍾嘉琳
CHUNG Ka Lam Macy (CUHK)

組員
Team Member
謝卓楹
TSE Cheuk Ying (HKU)
黃家蔚
WONG Ka Wai Jane (HKUST)
丁尉殷
DING Wai Yan (University of Cambridge)

院校顧問
Faculty Advisor
葉榮鏗教授
Prof. Yip W.H. Angus (HKU SPACE)

Website
foodmine.co