The dabbawalas (also spelled dabbawallas or dabbawallahs, called tiffin wallahs in older sources) constitute a lunchbox delivery and return system that delivers hot lunches from homes and restaurants to people at work in India, especially in Mumbai. The lunchboxes are picked up in the late morning, delivered predominantly using bicycles and railway trains, and returned empty in the afternoon. They are also used by meal suppliers in Mumbai, who pay them to ferry lunchboxes with ready-cooked meals from central kitchens to customers and back
When literally translated, the word "dabbawala" means "one who carries a box". "Dabba" means a box. Between 175,000 and 200,000 lunch boxes are moved each day by 4,500 to 5,000 dabbawalas.
Indians work in their offices far away from their houses in mumbai get hot freshly prepared meals from their homes with the help of dabbawalas.
