{"id":1656,"date":"2007-04-17T06:43:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-04-17T06:45:54","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T00:45:54","slug":"indian-dabbawallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/indian-dabbawallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Dabbawallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dabba wallas, or lunch box boys, are a fixture in Mumbai (Bombay) India. With uncanny precision they deliver hundreds of thousand of lunches each day. Each lunch is cooked at an office worker&#8217;s home and then correctly carried to their proper desk at their office at their precise lunch time. It is a logistical achievement beyond FedEx. The system is very low tech: Aluminum containers, each with a simple code on the lid, racks to hold the containers, and barefoot boys with good memories. Reputedly their error rate of wrong delivery is only one in 6 million. A summary of their system can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dabbawala\">this article<\/a> on Wikipedia. But they even have their own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydabbawala.com\/\">website<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/dabbaonroad.jpg\" height=\"249\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dabbaonroad\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/Dabbawalla2-1.jpg\" height=\"278\" width=\"400\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dabbawalla2-1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dabba wallas, or lunch box boys, are a fixture in Mumbai (Bombay) India. With uncanny precision they deliver hundreds of thousand of lunches each day. Each lunch is cooked at an office worker&#8217;s home and then correctly carried to their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/indian-dabbawallas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/streetuse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}