
How Daily Table Fights Food Deserts and Waste
In this lesson from Yale's Creating Change through Social Entrepreneurship course, students examine the case study of Daily Table, a social enterprise founded by Doug Rauch to address urban food deserts. The lecture explains how Daily Table combats food waste by recovering perfectly edible food that would otherwise be discarded and selling it at prices accessible to low income shoppers. As a real world case study within the course, the lesson grounds the earlier material on venture evaluation and differentiation in a concrete example of a social enterprise operating at the intersection of food waste reduction and food access.