Dubai-founded app Peekabox sells restaurants’ surplus food at a fraction of the price

DUBAI: A late-night craving for dessert led Hasan Sarwar to leave investment banking and build Peekabox, a Dubai-founded app that sells fresh unsold food from cafes, bakeries and grocery stores at discounts of 50 to 70 percent. Sarwar was in a Dubai cafe at about 11 p.m. when he noticed the pastry shelves were still full. “I simply asked them, I said: ‘What do you guys actually do with these items?’ And they said, ‘We make it in the morning, and then throw it the same day,’” he told Arab News. “

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