Good food.
Better routes.
Zero waste.
We match bakery surplus with nearby food pantries—and give volunteer drivers the smartest route to get it there fresh.
0 neighbors
ready to drive this week
One app. A meaningful trip.
Driver participation happens in the BakedBoston mobile app, so you can choose a route when it fits your day.
Create your driver profile.
A secure check that takes about two minutes.
Select a nearby order now, or reserve one for a preferred route and time.
Drive to the bakery and collect the food.
Bring it to the pantry and complete the delivery.
the BakedBoston appDriver routes are mobile-only. Tap or scan to open the App Store.
From surplus
to supper.
A simple act, coordinated intelligently.
Edible food is often discarded because a bakery cannot move it in the narrow window when it is still fresh—at the same time that local food-access organizations are under growing pressure. BakedBoston coordinates the people, places, and timing needed to turn that gap into a reliable delivery.
Bakeries post surplus
Pickup timing, confirmation status, and access details are added in under a minute.
We find a good match
We check schedules and compare food recovery, community need, environmental impact, and driver fit.
Neighbors drive the loop
Volunteers claim a route and deliver food while it’s still fresh.
Less waste is
a solvable problem.
BakedBoston is a research-informed routing tool for moving bakery surplus to local pantries while it can still be used. It finds routes that work in the real world, then recommends the option with the strongest overall community impact.
Only bakeries, pantries, and volunteers with compatible schedules are considered.
Routes are compared by food recovery, pantry service, environmental impact, and driver practicality.
Multiple volunteer requests can be coordinated so one pickup is not offered twice.
BakedBoston draws on food-rescue, volunteer-routing, equity, and environmental research. Read the source studies for their methods and findings; the full BakedBoston technical paper will be linked here when it is complete.
See how BakedBoston finds one practical delivery.
The walkthrough requires the current registered and validated partner network. Partner identities and locations come from the live database. The example request and daily food estimate are illustrative, and this walkthrough never creates an offer.
Loading the current bakery and pantry network…
No fictional organizations are substituted. The current Neon database quota must be restored before this database-backed demonstration can populate.