Good food should reach people, not go to waste.

Second Seating is a nonprofit food-rescue initiative being developed to connect surplus food from restaurants with the needs of community food pantries through vetted volunteer drivers.

We are building and validating the platform. You can now create an account and access your role-specific workspace. Organization verification and live food coordination are still being developed.

Read the project plan

How the planned network works

Restaurants share available food

Participating restaurants will post surplus items, quantities, handling details and pickup windows through a secure dashboard.

Food pantries request and approve

Partner pantries will describe what they need and explicitly accept offers they are equipped to receive.

Volunteer drivers complete the handoff

Vetted volunteers will claim available pickups and deliver to partner organizations with an accountable handoff.

Future possibilities

Later phases may support private, agency-mediated requests from people experiencing food insecurity and separately licensed enterprise APIs. Neither feature is currently available, and no commercial partnership is implied.