aimed at timestarved millennialsweve taken up a 1000 sq ft community kitchen in saki naka that was lying unused in the pandemic some of our dabbawalas and their wives are currently being trained by an fb expert on hygiene storage and culinary skills and we should be ready to launch our new service by midjune informs ritesh andre 25 a fourth generation dabbawala with an mba degree who chose to use his skills to reinvent a culture founded by his great grandfatherwere creating a website where people can directly place their orders one can choose between monthly or annual subscriptions and were also introducing online money transfer to make payments easier dabba services have always depended on cash transactions a reason why most dabbawalas didnt have savings or even bank accounts and led to major financial difficulties during the pandemic says andre who plans to harness technology to ease processes but remains mindful of their timehonoured tiffin distribution modelour dabbawalas arent tech savvy like the delivery boys in ecommerce the idea is to use their unique sorting skills to diversify generate employment bring stability and pride in what is indias oldest food delivery chain explains andre pointing at their intrepid new avatar which will allow people to choose between mini meals two rotis and two sabjis and regular meals two rotis two sabjis a portion of rice and dal pickle papad and salad which dabbawalas will prepare pack and deliver from dahisar to churchgate and ghatkopar to csmt in specially designed twotier and fourtier dabbas in a fresh twist to their colouralphabeticnumeric code to identify where to deliver the stainless steel dabbas everyday