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External Partners Alumni Search Submit Return to home Search Search About About Olin Home Why Olin Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Leadership & Strategy News & Media Events Contact Us Programs Programs Home Explore Our Programs BS in Business Administration MBAs Specialized Master's Doctoral Executive Education Dual Degrees Faculty & Research Faculty & Research Home Faculty Directory Research Research Centers Olin Brookings Commission Olin Award Student Resources Student Resources Home Career Services Center for Experiential Learning Entrepreneurship Academic Calendars Student Organizations For Current Students For Military Veterans Admissions Admissions Home Scholarships & Aid Attend Program Events Visit Olin Ask a Student Student Profiles Request Information Refer a Candidate External Partners Alumni Glantz makes diners ‘part of the solution’ to hunger December 29, 2017 By WashU Olin Business School 2 minute read Jacob Mohrman (at left) and Andrew Glantz, BSBA ’17 Home News Glantz makes diners ‘part of the solution’ to hunger It&＃8217;s a free way to give back to the community and be a part of the solution to the hunger problem. &＃8212;Andrew Glantz, BSBA &＃8217;17 Conceived on a lunch break, born in undergraduate school and funded before Andrew Glantz&＃8217;s graduation, GiftAMeal has&＃160;made headlines&＃160;and&＃160;garnered attention&＃160;from the startup world before. Now, the company&＃8217;s cofounder and CEO has been featured with a Q&A in the&＃160;St. Louis Business Journal&＃160;outlining how the idea came about and why it&＃8217;s&＃160;expanded into three cities&＃160;since its 2015 launch. In a Dec. 21&＃160;piece on the Journal&＃8217;s website&＃160;(subscription required for full article), Glantz, BSBA &＃8217;17, said the company was conceived as a way to help promote restaurants and contribute to a social good at the same time. &＃8220;It&＃8217;s a free way to give back to the community and be a part of the solution to the hunger problem,&＃8221; Glantz told the Journal. GiftAMeal&＃160;operates a mobile app that makes it easy for diners to &＃8220;turn a photo into food.&＃8221; They can find restaurants they love and donate a meal to an area food pantry by simply posting a photo as they have their meal. The Journal feature covers how the idea launched, its early efforts to get funding, the challenge of signing on its first restaurant partner and the biggest challenge it faces today: &＃8220;Figuring out how to scale GiftAMeal from what we have, to being a nationwide company.&＃8221; The company now serves&＃160;Operation Food Search in St. Louis (where it has 75 restaurant&＃160;partners), Lakeview Pantry in Chicago (25), and Forgotten Harvest in Detroit (six). Glantz said the company is at a breakeven point&＃8212;though he&＃8217;s not yet taking a salary yet&＃8212;with monthly revenue up 195 percent over last year. Olin Professor Cliff&＃160;Holekamp told the Journal the app&＃8217;s values goes beyond what it provides to the pantries, but also to the participating restaurants. &＃8220;Not only does it position them as a socially conscious business,&＃8221; said Holekamp,&＃160;senior lecturer in entrepreneurship and academic director for entrepreneurship, &＃8220;but it delivers them tangible marketing value in the process. It&＃8217;s a win-win for both the restaurants and for the people who are being helped by the meals donated through the platform.&＃8221; About the Author WashU Olin Business School Firmly established at the Gateway to the West, Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis stands as the gateway to something far grander in scale. The education we deliver prepares our students to thoughtfully make difficult decisions—the kind that can change the world. Contact Us For assistance in finding faculty experts, please contact Washington University Public Affairs. Monday&＃8211;Friday, 8:30 to 5 p.m. Sara Savat, Senior News Director, Business and Social [email protected] &＃160; Kurt Greenbaum,Communications [email protected] Twitter: WUSTLnews Share article Apply Now Visit Us Request Info One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 [email protected] 314-935-7301 News & Media Events Faculty Directory WashU Center for Career Engagement Washington University home Olin Links Sitemap Privacy Policies Title IX Accessibility ©2024 Washington University in St. Louis