Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong.

Indian lunch box delivery system.

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. Tiffins in the wild. The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife. This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas.

The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai. Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles. With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey.

A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box. Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients. 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. 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. Just as the indian railways are insatiably busy and incredibly complex so is the dabba s delivery system ferrying out an estimated 80 million lunches a year. د ب ه while wala is an agentive suffix denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word. Ny times the code explained.

Directed by ritesh batra. And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year.