With SIRPLUS you do good for the environment and save money! With your support, we can bring this ingenious concept close to you. ♥Thanks to you!
We are SIRPLUS and bring excess food via our supermarkets and online shop back to where it belongs - to the stomach! We've already opened four stores and saved millions of groceries with 100,000 people. Our goal is that many more … Show more
Funding period
23.05.19 - 05.08.19
Realisation
2019-2020
Website & Social Media
Minimum amount (Start level): 75,000 €
We will create an extensive rescue supermarket knowledge library, hire a franchise expert and expand our warehouse and logistics capacity.
In April 2017, we launched our first crowdfunding campaign, raising more than €90,000 for our idea of making food saving mainstream. More than 1700 crowdfunding supporters and many other great people and partners have helped us to open our first rescue market in Berlin Charlottenburg in September 2017.
A lot has happened since then. We launched our online shop, opened a total of 4 rescue supermarkets in Berlin and, together with hundreds of thousands of cust… Show more
What is the project goal and who is the project for?
Together with you we want to rescue surplus food throughout Germany that would otherwise be wasted due to overproduction, odd shapes, or because they are just before or after the best before date.
We want to offer all people the opportunity to support the appreciation and sustainable use of food, not only to protect the environment, but also to save them money. Growing and producing food creates CO2 emissions and uses water and fertile land, which is comple… Show more
Why would you support this project?
Every day we recieve messages from you asking us when a Rescue Supermarket will finally come to your city. Hundreds of people have already asked us how they can open a SIRPLUS franchise Rescue Supermarket themselves.
We have learned a lot in the last 1.5 years and would like to pass on our knowledge and experience so that you don't make our mistakes again ;). This is a big step and a complex task for us, for which we need your support.
How will we use the money if the project is successfully funded?
The financing will lay the foundation for SIRPLUS to be available to develop a franchise concept and soon be able to offer a rescue supermarket throughout Germany. Together with our great partners, our team and of course, with your support, we will document all of our supermarket processes and our accumulated experience and hire a franchise expert to help us create an extensive knowledge library for our future franchise partners. We will expand our warehou… Show more
Who are the people behind the project?
In the meantime, the SIRPLUS team has more than 70 wonderful rescue warriors who are working in our supermarkets, in our warehouse, and in our office, or on the road, rescuing food which would otherwise be wasted.
Raphael Fellmer has been campaigning against food waste since 2009 and became known for his 5-year money strike. Already with his food saving movement founded in 2012 (today known as "foodsharing"), more than 55,000 food savers have been inspired … Show more