The Story of Mumbai Dabbawalas.

| Feb 20, 2022

The Mumbai dabbawalas are most renowned in the list of startups or could say a lead to startups.

| Feb 20, 2022

The dabbawalas constitute a lunchbox delivery and return system that delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in Mumbai.They are also made use of by prominent meal suppliers in Mumbai where they ferry ready, cooked meals from central kitchens to the customers and back.The commercial arm of this trust was registered in 1968 as Mumbai Tiffin Box Supplier’s Association. And as the city grew, the demand for dabba delivery grew too.  In 1998, Forbes Global magazine conducted an analysis and gave them a Six Sigma rating of efficiency. The Dabbawalas have aroused the interest of many other international organizations, media and academia. It has very well survived the threats from todays business environment but has manage to survive through and that too has done it very well.Between 175,000 and 200,000 lunch boxes are moved each day by 4,500 to 5,000 dabbawalas, all with an extremely small nominal fee and with utmost punctuality.
 

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