Mumbai’s Crazy-Efficient, 99.9999% Accurate Food Delivery System

And this 0.0001% rate is only because of that one time the top gear crew came around

the 0.00001% of non-accuracy was when the top gear trio tried delivering the food with cars for an episode and miserable failed

Indians studied that 100 percent efficiency was ideal, not realistic So, they decided to make a 99.9999% efficient system

Tonight on Half as Interesting, Sam reads words, Ben writes words, and half the comments section is Top Gear references

Hahaha I'm Indian and I'm not from Mumbai. I've lived there a couple of years and always wondered what the racks that held lunch boxes outside office buildings were. Just so you know, this is a uniquely Mumbai system - right from the efficiency to trust to the steadfastedness...

Its logistical brilliance how they do this... My grandpa used to work in Mumbai for a govt job, his office was abt 5-6km from his quarters,yet everyday at 1PM his tiffin (dabba) always used to be on the table. He took me, when I was little, to see how dabbawalas worked-- at Churchgate station

A pokey little motoring show on the BBC showed that clearly using British cars is superior because you can arrive 45 seconds earlier with only 80% or more broken

Effeciency is so high that theres a whole movie with the plotline being based around a delivery being mixed up repeatedly which ended up turning into a pen pal situation and then an affair

In Bangla (pretty closely related), "wala" basically means "one who has," so I'm guessing dabbawala means the one who has the container

Don't tell him about 10 minute delivery apps in India.

Such a great top gear segment with this

For all those saying why dont they take theur own tiffins 1) only about 3% of the population uses the service so clearly most of the people do take thier lunch with them. 2) for the people whose offices are far and who travel for an hour or two, might not have their lunch ready by the time they leave. It is easier for the family to prepare the lunch in their own time and then let dabbawalas take it. 3) A lot of bachlors are dependent on this service since their lunch comes from a cloud kitchen of sorts and hence they don't have to worry about preparing lunches. It just makes lives a little but more convenient. Edit- I believe central kitchen will be a more appropriate term here. It is a large kitchen in a building preparing meals for lots of people and sending it out through dabbawalas

I expected a Wendower case study on the highly efficient logistics of the Mumbai Dabbawala, but got a "funny" video from his Alabamam cousin

I love that someone decided to make stock footage of water aggressively being dumped on a slice of sandwich bread

Half as interesting is slowly turning into full as interesting

Hey, I am from mumbai and I used this service for about 3 months ish when I was working in a different part of the city and I can confirm, these guys kick ass

Three middle aged British men tried to improve on the last 0.0004% (back then it was only 99.9996% accurate), and they failed miserably.

Why don’t workers just carry their own lunch with them to work?

Great video, but as a Mumbaikar, couldn't stop laughing at "Ville Parle". On the face of it, that pronunciation would make perfect sense to an English speaker based on the spelling, but we pronounce it "Vil-ey Par-lay" (rhyming)

One more thing , daba-walas often time are some of the first responders at accidents if some thing severe happens call the police and ambulance even some have first aid kits with them , semi-police ( if someone fights with someone try to mitigate that , if some crime happens they are the first informants to police , some daba-wala even have walkie talkies uf they are the main person at certain stations who manages the supervision duty , someone gets into accudent at station they will switch the frequency and call the railway police and normal police too . In india we have more types of police like forest police ( they are different than forest rangers ) , military police , railway police , special zone police ( dockyards police they are different from customs officers ) than there are coast police ( they are more life government appointed coast gaurds who investigate and are first responders when something happens very near to coasts and shores they are different from military coast gaurds but are first line of protection for civilians ) . So good luck understanding india 😂😂😂 .