The famous dabbawalas of Bombay are online. They launched a new website

As informed to the Mid-Day

To leverage full potential of information technology, we have launched our website MyDabbaWala.com. It has the facility to apply for Dabba facility online too, which has been developed with latest technologies. [...link...]

The site is all over the place when it comes to design. I wish they could get someone to design a more sleeker finished product, in line with the excellent service they provide in real life. However there is a wealth of information there…

A dabbawala, (Hindi: dabba - (Lunch) Box, wala - an appelation for One who carries) sometimes spelled dabbawalla or dabbawallah, is a person in Mumbai (Bombay), India, whose job is carrying and delivering freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office workers. Tiffin is an old-fashioned English word for a light lunch, and sometimes for the box it is carried in. Dabbawalas are sometimes called tiffin-wallas.

Though the work sounds simple, it is actually a highly specialized trade that is over a century old and which has become integral to Mumbai’s culture.

Stop by there and you can actually place an order for the dabbawala to come and start picking up your daily lunch. Cool eh !!