{"id":171,"date":"2007-04-17T19:57:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-04-17T19:57:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T19:57:12","slug":"homecookedindianmealsdelivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/homecookedindianmealsdelivered\/","title":{"rendered":"Home-cooked Indian meals delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Kelly over at the “Street Use blog”:http:\/\/www.kk.org\/streetuse\/<\/a> recently posted an “article”:http:\/\/www.kk.org\/streetuse\/archives\/2007\/04\/indian_dabbawallas.php<\/a> about “Dabbawalas”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dabbawala,<\/a> literally ‘those who transport lunch-boxes’ containing home-cooked meals to the workers in India’s factories and offices.
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\nUpon further looking into it, this is an amazingly intricate operation, consisting of 5,000 delivery boys transporting over 175,000-boxes in the three hour lunch period. “MyDabbaWala.com”:http:\/\/www.mydabbawala.com\/<\/a> has some information on the practice, including the beginnings of using technology to reform the century-old system.
\nOf course, if you’re a tech industry employee in Silicon Valley with a hankering for some good home-made Indian lunches, look no further than “Annadaata.com”:http:\/\/www.annadaata.com\/,<\/a> the American (and far pricier) adaptation of the dabbawala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Kelly over at the “Street Use blog”:http:\/\/www.kk.org\/streetuse\/<\/a> recently posted an “article”:http:\/\/www.kk.org\/streetuse\/archives\/2007\/04\/indian_dabbawallas.php<\/a> about “Dabbawalas”:http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dabbawala,<\/a> literally ‘those who transport lunch-boxes’ containing home-cooked meals to the workers in India’s factories and offices. Upon further looking into it, this is an amazingly intricate operation, consisting of 5,000 delivery boys transporting over 175,000-boxes in the three hour lunch period. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[100,149,182,192],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-delivery","tag-food","tag-indian","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}