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User Stories·Published onSep 30, 2025

Food Waste Platform Scales to Thousands of Daily Transactions Across 4 Countries

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David HöckCEO & Co-Founder, Vendure
Hungarian startup Munch built their entire commerce operations on Vendure to fight food waste at scale. Operating across four countries with 75 employees, they've become one of the largest implementations by transaction volume, processing thousands of orders daily while connecting food retailers with budget-conscious consumers.

Challenge

Munch, a Hungarian startup with a mission to combat food waste, needed a robust commerce platform to power their ambitious marketplace model. Operating across Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Romania, they connect retailers—from small businesses to major chains—with consumers looking for discounted food that would otherwise go to waste.Their previous system couldn't support their rapid growth trajectory and expanding geographic footprint. With 75 employees and plans for aggressive expansion, they required a solution that could handle complex partner relationships, manage diverse product catalogs, serve multiple client applications, and scale to meet increasing demand. The platform needed to be flexible enough to adapt to their unique business model while being robust enough to handle enterprise-level transaction volumes.

Solution

Munch chose Vendure as the foundation for their entire commerce ecosystem, making it the heart of their operations. Rather than using it as just another tool, they built their complete business infrastructure around the platform. Products, partners, customers, and orders all flow through their customized implementation, which serves both their client applications and provides daily operational tools through the admin dashboard.

The team initially forked the main codebase and developed multiple services and wrappers to address their specific use case, while maintaining the core capabilities that made the platform attractive initially. Key implementations included the Admin UI for internal operations and the Asset Server Plugin for managing product imagery. Working closely with our team through documentation reviews and strategic calls, Munch's engineers focused heavily on performance optimization and scalability improvements to support their growing transaction volumes.

Results

Since launching in November 2023, Munch has achieved remarkable scale, processing thousands of transactions daily across four countries. As CTO Róbert Oroszi notes: "Vendure is an amazing example of how to leverage existing ecosystems and industry standards. At our scale, it's crucial to have a bulletproof solution, and with Vendure our system could grow to handling thousands of transactions per day."

Vendure is an amazing example of how to leverage existing ecosystems and industry standards. At our scale, it's crucial to have a bulletproof solution, and with Vendure our system could grow to handling thousands of transactions per day.

The platform successfully maintained business continuity during their migration and enabled expansion into three new markets. After a year and a half of optimization, the system now fully supports their business needs, allowing the team to focus exclusively on new features and business lines rather than infrastructure concerns.

Why it matters

Munch's implementation demonstrates that Vendure can support mission-driven businesses operating at significant scale. Their success shows how companies tackling social and environmental challenges—like food waste—can build sophisticated marketplace models without compromising on performance or user experience. For businesses planning rapid geographic expansion or expecting high transaction volumes, this case proves that starting with the right commerce foundation enables focusing on business innovation rather than technical limitations.

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