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dabbawala
A dabbawala; also spelled as dabbawalla or dabbawallah; is a person in India, most commonly in Mumbai, who is part of a delivery system that collects hot food in lunch boxes from the residences of workers in the late morning, delivers the lunches to the workplace, predominantly using bicycles and the railway trains, and returns the empty boxes to the worker's residence that afternoon. They are also used by meal suppliers in Mumbai, where they ferry ready, cooked meals from central kitchens to the customers and back.
In Mumbai, most office workers prefer to eat home-cooked food in their workplace rather than eat outside at a food stand or at a local restaurant, usually for reasons of taste and hygiene, hence the concept. A number of work-from-home women also supply such home-cooked meals, delivering through the dabbawala network.
==Etymology ==
When literally translated, the word "dabbawala" means "one who carries a box". "Dabba" means a box (usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container) from (ペルシア語:دَبّه), while "wala" is an agentive suffix, denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word.〔Pathak R.C. (1946, Reprint 2000). ''The Standard Dictionary of the Hindi Language'', Varanasi: Bhargava Book Depot,pp.300,680〕 The closest meaning of the dabbawala in English would be the "lunch box delivery man".
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