Food you won't use deserves a buyer, not the bin.

When you won't use something before its date, Luma offers it to restaurants nearby that will. No restaurant needs it? Luma matches a local charity.

Early pilot

Where food can go: your kitchen buys from farms and suppliers using the best buying plan. Surplus is shared with your other sites first, then sold to restaurants nearby, then donated to local charities. Buying is available now; sharing, selling and donating are rolling out or coming next.Where food can goBest plan1 Share between sites2 Sell nearby3 DonateFarms & suppliersYour other sitesRestaurants nearbyLocal charitiesYour kitchenAvailable nowRolling out or coming next

The problem

Surplus is money you've already spent.

Even careful kitchens over-order sometimes. Without a quick way to pass food on, it's binned, along with what you paid for it.

How TABLEVA helps

  • Brought to the buyer

    Luma offers your surplus to restaurants nearby that are likely to use it before its date. Nobody has to go searching.

  • Safe by design

    Your staff check it's safe and you set the price. Meat, fish, dairy and eggs stay within 30 miles of you, and can't be donated yet.

  • Kept honest

    Money back from surplus and food donated are shown apart from your purchase savings.

Illustrative example

Chicken thighs, use by Thursday

One restaurant won't use them in time. Another, round the corner, will.

Example map: The Lantern's spare chicken thighs go to Dockside Grill, down the roadSample data. The Lantern lists 6 kg of chicken thighs, use by Thursday, at £4.50 a kilo, after its staff checked they're safe. Luma matches Dockside Grill, 0.2 miles away on the same street, which uses chicken thighs and will use 6 kg by Thursday. The chicken thighs go next door, and The Lantern gets £27 back instead of throwing them away.0.2 miles
Example · sample data

What's ready, and what's next.

We say plainly what you can use today. Anything still to come is marked, and nothing switches on without you.

  • Early pilot

    Selling surplus to restaurants nearby, opening area by area as restaurants join

  • Early pilot

    The Surplus Lab: see if your price beats what they'd pay their supplier

  • Early pilot

    A local charity matched when no restaurant needs it

  • In TABLEVA now

    Waste and surplus logged in TABLEVA

See it with your own invoices.

Click around a sample restaurant first, with nothing to sign up for. Or start your free pilot and Luma begins with the invoices you already have.