SV Werder Bremen and Levy Restaurants Save Food From the Bin

SV Werder Bremen and Levy Restaurants Save Food From the Bin

Save food from the rubbish – Werder fans can do this from now on after every home match of the Green-Whites.

SV Werder Bremen and stadium caterer Levy Restaurants are working together with the app “Too Good To Go”. Unsold and surplus food is given out at heavily discounted prices in so-called “surprise bags” and thus saved from the bin.

The offer was launched on a trial basis for the home match against VfL Bochum. During the test phase of the home games against Bochum, Leverkusen and Hoffenheim, the opportunity was already very well received, so that in future surplus products from the outlets will be handed out at all home games around two hours after the end of the game at around a third of the price at the Weserstadium.

The surprise bags can be ordered online via the Too Good To Go app.
“We are very pleased that fans and residents are taking up this offer so well and that we can actively do something against food waste and additional rubbish,”

Björn Thies, regional manager and stadium manager at Levy Restaurants

“Although there has been no advertising so far and the distribution has only been communicated via the app, the 15 or so bags we have been handing out per match have been sold out super fast.”

Thorsten Lieder, Public Department Manager

In recent years, Levy Restaurants and Werder Bremen have initiated numerous measures to reduce waste. While reusable cups have already been used at the Osterdeich for two decades, this season they were switched to handle cups in order to save on cardboard carriers as well. Drinks and food are now served almost entirely without ‘packaging’. In the VIP area, for example, the cutlery bags were recently changed so that the bag is also a napkin.

For SV Werder Bremen’s sustainability efforts, cooperation with “Too Good To Go” is now another important step.

“I am glad that we are now offering this project on a permanent basis. Of course, we are checking whether food from the VIP areas can also be served with the help of the app in the future and whether we can save more food in this way, but the cooperation is already a win-win situation for all sides. On the one hand, we can reduce food waste and rubbish at our home matches, and on the other hand, people benefit from the offer in view of the current rising food prices.”

Anne-Kathrin Laufmann, Managing Director Sport & Sustainability