The Bahraini App Turning Food Surplus Into Opportunity
How Wajba helps food businesses sell what remains at the end of the day, with Tap Payments keeping every order moving.
If you run a restaurant, café, or bakery, what do you do with the perfectly good food left unsold at the end of the day?
Any food that remains unsold is often thrown away, costing your business money and wasting the ingredients, time, and effort you put into it while adding to its environmental impact.
But what if closing time could open the door to a new opportunity?
Meet Wajba
Wajba is a Bahraini app founded in 2024 with a simple way to turn this problem into an opportunity.
Through the Wajba app, restaurants, cafés, bakeries, and supermarkets can offer food left unsold at lower prices. Customers find what is available nearby, pay through the app, and collect their order at the set time.
Just like that, everybody wins!
Businesses earn from food that might otherwise be thrown away, customers enjoy it at a lower price, and perfectly good food is eaten instead of wasted.
It is a simple idea that is already gaining attention. Wajba recently reached number one in the Food & Drink category on Bahrain’s App Store.
The Technology Behind Every Wajba
Behind the simple customer experience is a platform that helps businesses manage food that may be difficult to sell before the day ends.
Through the Wajba dashboard, businesses can:
- Create and schedule offers when it suits them.
- Set original and discounted prices.
- Choose the available quantity and pickup time.
- Update offers when availability changes.
- Follow orders, earnings, and sales performance in real time.
- Export sales data and review customer ratings.
This gives businesses the tools to manage, sell, and track food that might otherwise go to waste.
Why Every Saved Meal Matters
The scale of food waste is difficult to ignore. The world wastes 1.05 billion tonnes of food each year, almost one-fifth of all food available to consumers. Food service businesses accounted for 28% of that total, or around 290 million tonnes. Food waste also causes an estimated 8% to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Wajba helps businesses and customers reduce food waste by keeping prepared food from being discarded and making better use of the ingredients, energy, and work behind it.
The app also tracks the money customers save and the carbon emissions avoided, showing how each order contributes to a wider impact.
What Is Next for Wajba?
Wajba began in Bahrain, but its ambition extends beyond the Kingdom. The company aims to become the Middle East’s leading platform for reducing food waste by connecting more businesses with customers who want to save good food.
Why Wajba Partnered With Tap Payments
Every offer on Wajba is available in limited quantities and for a short time. Once a customer finds something they want, speed matters. They need to complete the payment before the offer is gone or the pickup window closes.
Tap Payments supports a fast payment experience within the Wajba app, allowing customers to pay quickly using familiar local and global payment methods. This helps them secure their order in time while giving businesses immediate confirmation that the food has been sold.
For Wajba, faster payments help move each offer from available to collected before it goes to waste.
As the app works toward reaching more businesses and markets across the Middle East, Tap Payments can also support its growth with regional payment infrastructure and payment methods suited to each market.
Keep Every Opportunity Moving
When time matters, Tap Payments helps your customers pay quickly using familiar local and global payment methods.
Visit our website and talk to our team about the payment experience your business needs.
