the one reason i knew about this before this video

What happened i didn't see this episode

Can someone do the maths because this might genuinely be true

@@where_is_sauce They took some lunches by car. Through a congested city they were unfamiliar with. And they exercised their usual amount of conscientiousness.

@@where_is_sauce Topgear Uk, Season 17 episode 7

beat me to it.

The Top Gear special from 2011 said the accuracy before they went was 99.9996%. So it's actually gone up by 0.0003% in the last 13 years!

​@@gsami1256way to ruin the fun bro

7:03 is the same girl from the Distracted Boyfriend memes!

The advantages of no worker laws hassles. You pay someone for a job they do the job

how lazy smh

Top Gear was the .0001%

I mean u could say it for anything really especially the chances for England to lose the euros again 😂

Hey US Police! Learn from this and you MIGHT stop getting bad press for destroying the wrong address and killing people whose only crime is YOUR mistake.

@@MonkeyJedi99what

"Intro theme plays"

*"HAMMOOOOOOND!!!"*

"CLARKSOOOOOOOONNNNNNN"

There's just something so unifying to me about seeing so many other people sharing the same brain cell and remembering that Top Gear episode the moment they see this video.

😂😂😂 You nailed it

....to the laziness of not bringing your own food to work in the morning.

​@@toolbaggers bro why are you so pressed about this you're replying to every single comment lmfao RELAX

@@toolbaggers, I think there was a reason they didn’t bring it to you in particular

@@spiralshadow Racism is a hell of a drug

dang im sorry bro. I feel bad for you. But hey, maybe you will be reincarnated as something else in another life 🤣

Indian Wall street too upscale to pack a homemade sandwich to work but too poor to afford take out food for lunch.

Nah people leave for work early because of the traffic and stringent time these offices follow....and people here prefer homemade food over anything elese​@@toolbaggers

@@toolbaggers You misunderstand. This food is prepared fresh in the morning, and is not just a sandwich. You can't exactly cook food at 6 in the morning.

@@gnanasabaapatirg7376so you wake up early enough to make the lunch and put it on your porch for the driver to get but too late to put that same can in your briefcase?

@@Owen-il8ws They probably have wifes or someone else who cooks for them

😭

"pokey little motoring show on the BBC" I'm dead

7:03 is the same girl from the Distracted Boyfriend memes!

Imagine not doing that challenge with a German car... A Mercedes-Benz W140.

Yes but much hotter than before

I can't stop laughing at this 😂

sounds about as ridiculous as the plot to 50 first dates but americans watched the shit out of that... with over a billion indians the lowest common denominator must be pretty lucrative!

Yeah, Its "The Lunchbox" starring Irrfan Khan...

@@shabadvaswani5576 great movie starring the greatest actor

GOAted comment

Would lunchbox-bearer be a fair interpretation?

It's more like the guy. Chai wala, bread wala.

My parents lived in India in the 1960s and 1970s for a few years and my father's favorite was "Dieselpetrolpumpwala"

@@Dr.Quarex Loan words are amazing.

'Man/person' is actually a fairly accurate descriptor but more in the profession sort of sense. Like the 'man' in 'fisherman' or 'salesman'. I wouldn't say it's "one who has" exactly. It works for vendors like "chaiwala" or "maachwala" for example, but it's also used in terms of things like "stationwala" meaning station worker or stationman where "one who has" doesn't quite make sense.

Or UPI. Or the cost of dentists in India.

Or how a dollar is worth ≈85 rupees​@@TheDarkXanatos

zomato > swiggy

@@TheDarkXanatoswhat… what are those things? Now I know what aliens are gonna feel like when they first come to earth

PLS TELL THEM THEIR MINDS WILL BE BLOWN

POOOOOWER!!!!!!!!

@@a_lol_cat "you blithering idiot"

Cloud kitchen?? What is this? I am extremely curious now!

@@simplystreeptacular "Cloud Kitchen" aka "Ghost Kitchen"

@@simplystreeptacularit’s another term for ghost kitchen. A ghost kitchen is a restaurant that only offers takeout or delivery and can be in some cheap building or even just inside another restaurant. Sometimes the food is so good people will pay for it and don’t care for the restaurant that’s why some places operate only as kitchens as it’s cheaper.

@@realjoshuaW so Chinese take-away but instead Indian delivery-only

Thanks, I was just about to ask why the workers don't simply take their lunch to work with them. as an american bachelor, I forget that in other cultures people have family at home that prepare meals for them

"funny"

7:03 is the same girl from the Distracted Boyfriend memes!

@@B3Band YES I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

you do know it's the same guy, tho...its the worst-kept secret since cleopatra's infidelity

Still only half as long.

I'm like 80% sure they got Amy to record that.

Do you not have a microwave in your office?

Hey, I have a question, did you make the lunch tourself in the morning, or did you order it from a restaurant?

@@NGCAnderopolis It's probably done by the wife

@@aishikpanja3931 I wasn't making breakfast in the morning, you think I was gonna make lunch? There's a lot of women who run tiffin service out of their homes, you can have them cook you nice food, these dabba walls will bring it to you

@@YashAtishaythis seems like an important point. Getting food from elsewhere definitely adds to the usefulness of the service. Also lots of people are saying the food actually gets picked up much closer to lunch than the “9:30am” quoted in this video. Would you agree? Seems like a 9:30-12:30 transit time would leave the food pretty cold.

top gear?

Clarksooooon

@@rudragupta2491HAMMOND!

British trying to improve efficiency? Sounds oxymoronic

That’s what I’m wondering 🤔

Hot lunches

maybe the food wasn't prepared that early in the morning? 🤷

So that the 'dabbawalas' can keep their jobs.

Given only 2.5% of the city's population use the service, it's safe to assume the vast majority of them do.

that's great! It's rare in big cities for people to look out for each other.

That's interesting.

as well as "hanUUUman" 3:07 (its pronounced han-u-man)

Yeah. He pronouced it like WILL PAARL.

"and wala being, guy, i guess". oh how to explain the many uses and meanings of that word.

i couldnt get over how he pronounced dabbawala LOL

Bro I swear it's a great video, but that suburban railway network map just triggers me every time it shows up on screen. It's so wildly wrong.

moving bytes 🍛

Water sandwich

Welsh Rarebit 😂

So, did he do that himself, or is there an actual market out there for 'stock footage of a slice of white bread getting dissolved by a garden hose'?

@@Eloraurora part of me thinks they find the stock footage before they write the jokes lol

@@Eloraurora Maybe it goes the other way around. Sam goes out and finds absurd stock photos and videos, and then tries to determine subject for a video that fits the findings 😂

It has to be “pod” instead of train to get western urban planning interest.

​@@dashmeetsingh9679More like to avoid having to deal with the bullshit our privatized railroads put us through.

Sounds like some people don’t have functional train infrastructure where they live. We don’t use it for food delivery though.

Positively "groundbreaking".

@@doomsdayrabbit4398privatized rail can work out well if done right. See: Japan

Ok.

Who asked about your age and how long you've been watching this channel?

Yawn.. somehow you make his about yourself. Get a life bro.

The replies are being too rude. Just move on if you don't care.

The weaver! Surprised they got a photo of him without a ciggy in his mouth

Its made by someone in their family.....wife, mom or hired cook....

India still has "traditional family values". If a man makes a salary good enough to employ the dabbawallas you can bet your arse his wife will take pride in making sure he gets a hot meal, worthy of his status, every single day unless she's so sick she can't stand up.

There’s also lot of women who run dabba services so they just pick it up from them.

Not everyone lives alone and not everyone's family is a jerk. Family makes the food once ther person has left for work early in the morning.

@@vishalmalik0519 It was a genuine question I asked out of curiosity. Seems we have some cultural differences, as many adults here are responsible for their own lunches and don't expect their family to fulfill that duty. Except for more socially conservative regions of the United States where men expect their spouse to prepare a packed lunch.

If you put food in the office fridge, doesn't it go missing by the time lunch rolls around even if you sealed it and labelled it?

@@stylesrj hasn't been an issue where I work, thankfully. Now if only my neighbors at home would quit stealing shit off/out of my vehicles...

sn't this whole system based on the idea that there is someone at home preparing the meal? - Absolutely. Your wife/mother/paid cook is cooking for you. Most Indian women are house-wifes. Also, many offices in India don't have a fridge/microwave.

food is prepared by other households not their own

This is not a one-one comparison. It is a more holistic comparison were you can take the positives of one system and implement it in another but it requires some thought, not a copy-paste approach. For example, if USA puts an efficient and secure public transit system in place and the food delivery (and even courier) companies build a logistics system around that, it could drive up efficiency. And if you can think beyond that, this is a statement about the importance of community and family in a society.

Was gonna say the 0.0001% error was down to 3 British men

Are you referring to Top Gear series 18 where that actually happened.

But if all dabawalas used cars the traffic would be impossible

proven where?

cars need fuel tho? have u not factored that in?

Indian Wall street too upscale to pack a homemade sandwich to work but too poor to afford take out food for lunch.

Imagine if 300,000 workers had a more productive job....there wouldn't be a mega slum in Mumbai!

@@toolbaggers Imagine if you had a more productive job - you might do something with your life instead of being racist on KZfaq comments

​@@toolbaggersHe clearly says 5000 dabbawalas and 300000 customers. And nobody in india eats sandwiches for lunch. That's just a snack for us

Having no personal experience with this, I followed your advice and "just Google[d]". 1. The time you have to go to work has no bearing on this. My ex used to start work at 4 in the morning and would still make herself lunch every day before she went. I start work at 8 in the morning, so guess what I do at 7? Just stop being lazy, wake up earlier, and do it. It isn't that hard. 2. See previous, re: laziness. 3. According to a journal article about the schedule of a dabbawala (which lines up pretty well with what is stated in the video here), the food is collected from 8:30 to 10 in the morning. So it must be prepared before that, meaning it is being prepared roughly the same time as it would be if it were just being carried. Maybe it is a half hour to an hour fresher...which is meaningless a few hours later at lunch time. The food will have the same properties in regard to how cold it is unless the dabbawalas are transporting them under heat lamps (which clearly seems to not be the case). 4. This is the only real reason. It doesn't really make logical sense to do this, but it is tradition. There is nothing inherently wrong with wanting to continue this tradition, but trying to argue that this system is logistically beneficial just falls flat on its face. Even the low error provided at the start of the video trying to make this system seem virtually perfect seems to be based on some guesstimates with zero support. It was derived from a vague statement made by one man that the dabbawalas make mistakes "almost never, maybe once every two months."

But you will get professionally cooked restaurant food delivered. Unlike these office workers that won't bring their wife's/mom's home cooking to work with them in the morning.

​@@toolbaggers you're so mad people are eating homemade, fresh food & supporting basic jobs in their community, must be real toxic wherever you are from

@@toolbaggers Buddy is so angry, he replying to every comment about how they don't bring food from home, also why do u say wife's/mom's home cooking instead of just home cooking, can a man not cook himself?

Oh this commenter really is just leaving borderline racist comments under any positive comment wow

must be nice

Dude they put elephants on the subway?

Also the fact that no matter how efficient the system is it would be vastly more efficient for everyone to just bring their lunch to work temselves

@@alexschmidt6644 The reason they don't has already been answered multiple times here haha. Most families have one parent at least who needs to go to work early, by when the food isn't cooked (as they need to leave in time for the morning commute in rush hour, which can take long; Mumbai is huuge and very crowded after all). Plus, home cooked meals are the cultural preference here, compared to take-out or restaurant food, for the vast majority. Also, the food is hot and freshly made, so why not? xD

@@karthikmukund9526 I get that there are reasons, but that doesn't change the fact the system is pretty inefficient all things considered

@@alexschmidt6644 I don't get how anyone can come to the conclusion that everybody preparing a single meal for themselves every time could ever be described as efficient, never mind the 4 hour gap between preparation and consumption. Door dash style systems suck, because they have so much logistical overhead from stops being far apart. When you can reduce that overhead substantially by delivering to a large portion of the population (3% has been thrown around, which would mean a single 1000 worker building would need 30 meals) then the logistical overhead ends up being quite small. The key factor is stop density (and that they are all in the same time window). Once that goes above a certain threshold the inefficiencies from transport drop below the inefficiencies from individual preparation.

They have cheap blood oil/petroleum as a byproduct of spreading freedom.

We have a lot of car based infrastructure but mostly for moving them between places white people live and work, because we had a much worse racism problem before when we built the highways.

In the US, it's illegal to drive motorbikes between cars, except in California, so you're subject to the same traffic as the cars. Some cities have bike lanes, but not all. Add that a lot of these delivery drivers are effectively freelance employees working whenever and are largely required to follow GPS generated routes to multiple destinations scattered across a a city because the delivery company is too cheap to bother improving actual logistics and you end up with the ridiculousness of stuff like Door Dash. Meanwhile, restaurants with their own in-house delivery service (usually pizza places) are often much faster, charge less for delivery, are more efficient, and can get your food to you while it's still piping hot (or still chilled if relevant). Dedicated delivery employees and proper routing and logistics do wonders and is why a number of them were able to run "your order delivered in 30 minutes or its free" promotions successfully. So efficient delivery is far from impossible here. It's just the 3rd party delivery services suck and get away with it because no other delivery alternatives exist for those restaurants.

And yet the only thing that is ever said and heard about the Mumbai Suburban Railway is that it is "overcrowded." Whenever it comes to India, folks tend to always dwell on the negatives rather than the positives.

I think that's why there's so many racist comments. It's actually jealousy in part but they are ashamed when a "third world country" does something better

Marathi mein dabba ko dabbha pronounce karte hain?

@@Chopper153 nope, pronounced डब्बा

I still call it Bombay.

Thank you

@@anthonymeade7345 Wow! So brave of you.

Make it better. *Drunk* Ben reads them.

Same question here, isn't it cheaper to just have a fridge in the workplace?

@@freedomofspeech2867 nope. Indians would rather spend 6k every year, than get a 20k fridge

@@dheepak9369 Yeah, because a hot meal cooked right before its eaten is inferior to a meal cooked last night and eaten next afternoon, cold out of the fridge. The number of brain cells required to reach such a staggering conclusion must be enormous. Enormously low, that is.

@@dheepak9369 Why? Fridges last like 20 years and the workplace can buy one so they splitt the cost. 5k per person if they are just 4 people. If the fridge holds 20 meals that's 1k/person. Just 2 months cost of this service.

@@freedomofspeech2867 who's gonna cook the food in office? like people dont eat frozen foods a lot here, which can be baked or put in the oven.Most offices do not even come with a space for that.

Mumbai commute is very crowded during rush hours (in the morning and evening)....So office workers prefer to carry as less luggage as possible....Dabbawalas usually don't travel during rush hours so its easy for them to take the tiffins back....

the boxes are not theirs thats why

More like playing English music in Scotland.

@@toolbaggers Arabia and England are more similar than India is to Arabia. England and Arabic cultures both are Abrahamic cultures and partook in African slavery, intolerant to other beliefs, have bland food and have light skin. While India is Dharmic not Abrahamic, has thousands of languages and beliefs, never had massive slave trades, has numerous flavorful cuisines and have light to dark to yellow skin tones.

Boy do I have some information for you about the origins of the Mughal empire

@@simplystreeptacular The Mughals were Persianized Turks, so again, Arabic music doesn't play in here. And Mumbai wasn't part of the Mughal empire.

video is made by an american

Or just bring the food to work yourself? The dabbawallas just deliver the food from your home anyways, it's not restaurant food.

Because it is healthier, which means less lifestyle diseases (like diabetes) in your population, which means a more productive population and less stress on the healthcare system. Overall, this is more efficient for the nation.

@@freedomofspeech2867 wrong. ive seen you reply on so many comments just saying "same" like a redditor and adding nothing of value. so once and for all, understand that the food is prepared by other households and kitchens that are a part of the system. the food they carry is often not from the house of the person theyre delivering to.

@@anonymoushoopla3694 Ok, if that's true then that settles it, interesting. If it's from their own home like HAI says then I'd still find that dumb. If I didn't answer to so many people I probably wouldn't have gotten your answer, that is why I replied to so many people :)

@@freedomofspeech2867 ill try to give you the reason which is closer to the real one. 1. Mumbai is expensive af for an avg indian. Many bachelors live here in shared flats without their families. They dont have the luxury to buy a full fledged kitchen and neither the time to cook food early in the morning, as indian food is made on the spot and dosent use premade refridgerated bread, veggies. You need to first roll chapatis (common staple bread in mumbai), heat them on a pan, then prepare a bhaji (cooked vegetables). This takes 30 mins to 1 hour. 2. now you would think 45 mins avg is not a lot of time. But people need to reach their offices at 6-7-8 and even with trains it takes 30 mins to an hour to reach office. One dosent want to tire themself early in the morning. And if we compare the costs, overall the "dabbas" are cheaper then buying and cooking it yourself. 3. You dont have to handle the washing and cleaning of utensils used to make and transport the food. 4. The food is homemade, generally by women who are illiterate and cant do other jobs, this acts as a way of sustenance for them. OR some dabbas are even made by family members who just use the dabbawala system to transport it. 1

Why don't the workers just bring their food to work themselves when they, go to work?

The communication between the store and the service sucks a lot of the time, the driver delivering it isn't incentivized to deliver low paying orders (usually with no tip) and has to usually wait in the same line as regular customers ordering for themselves.

This

they dont have time to cook their own food

@@anonymoushoopla3694 I thought the people are just picking it up and bring it to them, not cooking it before they drop it off?

@@jamesmcallen3354 other people from different houses who are a part of the system prepare their food for them

Yes... That's true... In india, you would mostly have somebody at home, like a spouse, mom or even a hired cook who would cook the food after you have left for the office early in the morning while taking a crowded train journey yourself for the commute to work.

People leave early in the morning, typically at 8 or earlier for a normal 9 to 5, and lunch isn't ready at 8 normally for them to take away. Thus, they leave for work, their wife prepares lunch at home by 10 or 11, and then the dabba guy takes and delivers it around lunchtime at 12:30, hope this helps!

I mean.. I have like a 95% success rate at showing up to work at all. If they can cover for me 19 out of 20 times that brings it up to 99.75%. Pretty good. But nowhere near 99.9999 My guess is that mistakes go unreported

@@timonix2nope they don’t , leaving a person hungry because of your negligence is something that’s taken very seriously in a culture where food is considered sacred

​@@timonix2 Sounds like you're a shitty employee

the rail system has to be even more efficient for these numbers to be true

politicians basically

Considering the distance, the cost, and the delivery window, yes, it is very good.

no shareholders pushing to maximize profits and leech the money out of the system. instead its judged by how well it works and how satisfied the customers are. how strange that its so efficient!

​@@kitsunekaze93 It works because it's consistent, unvaried everyday, there's tons of logistics companies with shareholders, trying to squeeze every penny, doing this exact same thing, for products you don't care about, you don't hear about them because they're decent back end and fine, the timber company who sends their mulch from sawmill to factory isn't something you think about much, hell, this is Amazon on easy mode

Bigger cost is the unpaid labor of their wives

@@venkatakhileshyanamadala1700 Indeed. But putting a price on everything is a terrible idea. Isn't there already enough capitalism in this world? This "maximize GDP at all costs" idea seems to me like a human version of the "paperclip optimizer". We need to reassess how we look at economics from the standpoint of our traditional systems. Ofcourse those systems won't work in the world today, but will give us insights to help us design a modern system of economic thought that suits our needs and serves our true aspirations.

@@death_parade unpaid woman labour isn't something to not worry about

@@venkatakhileshyanamadala1700 And like I said, not everything needs to be "paid," not because it is women, but because it is within the family. Imagine a society that turns a family unit into a bunch of transactional relationships measured by money. If you can't imagine why that would be unhealthy for a society, I can't explain it to you brother. Some things need to be realized on your own. No amount of explaining will work.

the works decide their own prices

Keeps people busy.

YOU don't make the food. Your spouse/parent/hired cook typically does long after you've left.

No, because no working man/woman cooks their food there.

We like being Lazy...

Fresh food is better+ 60% of the times its local services or independent wonen who sell tiffins

No one cares

home cooked fresh lunch which you dont have to carry in peak office rush especially in mumbai trains

Also brings a sense of community and provides basic jobs..

You forgot 3: Not having to cook. That's why people order it. Personally the only thing I bother ordering is pizza. Everything else becomes miserable quickly when wrapped up and transported for half an hour.

@@andersjjensen i add a 4.: getting certain things that are out of your skillrange, take to much time or need special equiment. Like Sushi: takes quite some practise to roll and incrediants to make it at home and sometimes the special equiment isn't a salamander or rotissery Grill, but a kitchen at all and not only a kitchenette

Logic doesn't stand in the face of human emotions. Companies have hacked our brains into making us think that we "like" fast food. Now, we can get fast food without having to move from our couch. Why wouldn't ordering Fast Food for delivery be a thing?

Smith means someone who works metal. The correct translation would actually be guy or man/woman. The way we say policewoman or fireman

​​@@flakgun153Ok wordsmith.