Lunch Box Delivery In India

These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles.

Lunch box delivery in india.

Directed by ritesh batra. A mistaken delivery in mumbai s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Tiffin carriers or dabbas are a kind of lunch box used widely in asia for tiffin meals. As of 2016 it touched rs 10 000 crore in revenue.

With a population of over 18 million people mumbai is one of the world s largest megalopolises. The healthy foods market is a fast growing segment in india. This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah. In 1890 mahadeo havaji bachche started a lunch delivery service in bombay with about a hundred men.

The salt if you work in an office in india lunch might travel through a complex network of kitchens bicycle deliverymen and train. In india lunch is a whole different ball game. The history of india s lunch in a box how a legacy of the british raj has become a staple of indian culture read the bombay lunchbox recipes here tiffin tins. With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey.

Later a charitable trust was registered in 1956 under the name of nutan mumbai tiffin box suppliers trust. In india 100 year old lunch delivery service goes modern. In 1930 he informally attempted to unionize the dabbawalas. Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong.

From india they spread to indonesia malaysia and singapore where they are now widely used. They are also used extensively in hungary primarily to transport restaurant meals for consumption at home the hungarian version typically contains soup a main course and piece of cake. While this is less than 10 percent of the overall food market many believe the. To put it mildly the city can be unpredictable.