Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box.

Indian lunch box delivery system. Tiffins in the wild. 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. The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife. Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients.

And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year. The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai. د ب ه while wala is an agentive suffix denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word. Ny times the code explained.

The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man. India s commercial capital is a teeming metropolis of nearly 20 million boasting a sparkling international air terminal and a sleek new metro system swanky furniture stores and bollywood starlets. Dabba means a box usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container from persian. And no better example of this.

Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong. Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah. With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey.

This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas. Gautam singh ap.