Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

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

Indian lunch box delivery system.

Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. Ny times the code explained. This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas. 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.

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. Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong. This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah.

Tiffins in the wild. And no better example of this. A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box. Gautam singh ap.

Directed by ritesh batra. With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey. And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year. Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients.

The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man. 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.