Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai.

Indian lunch box delivery system.

A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box. 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. Tiffins in the wild.

And no better example of this. And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year. This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah. Dabba means a box usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container from persian.

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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. Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients. Gautam singh ap. Directed by ritesh batra.

Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man.