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Mumbai Dabbawala Tour
200,000 home-cooked lunches a day, delivered with near-perfect accuracy. See how.
- 2 hours, flexible
- Morning
- Private, or a small group
- Easy
About this experience
Discover the dabbawala system: a 130-year-old tradition that delivers over 200,000 home-cooked meals across Mumbai every day, with near-perfect accuracy.
Recognised worldwide for Six Sigma-level efficiency, the dabbawalas use a unique colour code to move through the city’s complex train network. On this tour you see the sorting, coding and dispatch of the tiffin boxes up close, and hear the stories from the dabbawalas themselves, a team studied by Harvard and praised by Prince Charles.
The route
- 01The incredible history
- 02Travel with the dabbawalas
- 03Learn their supply chain and colour codes
- 04Deliver a tiffin with them optional
- 05Eat a dabbawala meal optional
Included
- Private English-speaking guide
Not included
- Car transfer (add-on)
- Tips
Good for
- Business and MBA students
- Supply-chain nerds
- Curious minds
Bring and wear
- Comfortable walking shoes, light clothes that cover shoulders and knees
- Start times
- Agreed with you when you book
- Meeting point
- Your hotel, or a point we share on WhatsApp
- Group size
- Your own group only
- Getting there
- Private car with driver as an add-on, or meet us there
- Fitness
- Easy
- Children
- Welcome
- Monsoon (June–September)
- Good in the monsoon. The dabbawalas deliver in any weather, and so do we.
- Cancellation
- See our booking terms · Booking terms
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