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Mumbai Dabbawallahs ***** Sell In UK
Our Own "Globalites" ... - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2005
LONDON: There may well be a solution in Britain to a problem that has bedevilled gourmets for decades: the leaking takeaway curry container.
For too long, the journey from restaurant to home has been accompanied not only by a delicious aroma but also by a trail of glorious sauce, sauce left to congeal on the pavements of towns and cities throughout the country.
Which is not a good thing, either for the not so happy eater or for the street cleaners of Britain.
But regulars at a restaurant in Bristol are being treated to something that has kept the meals of people in India snug and warm for as long as necessary - tiffins, those metal boxes carried throughout the sub-continent.
Over the past year, the One Stop Thali Cafi in the city has been inviting people to join its very own tiffin club. For 20 pounds, the curry lover gets a stainless steel tiffin tower ... ...and their first meal. After that, any time a curry is fancied, off they trot to the restaurant of their choice and they can get a refill. Yum.
The owner of the restaurant, Jim Pizer, came up with the idea after a visit to Mumbai. He was originally just looking for spice boxes, but his supplier showed him the tiffin tins and he reckoned that they were just what the people of Bristol were waiting for.
The tiffin system has a long and honourable history and, in fact, began in Mumbai at the end of the nineteenth century, when the British and Parsee communities wanted hot lunches delivered to their workplaces.
Anyway, to get back to Jim Pizer: he took a small batch of tiffin towers back to the UK, they virtually flew out of his restaurant, and in the past 18 months, he has sold some 1500 of the things, and reckons that 200 people a week get takeaways from his restaurant using them.
As he said: "I wasn't sure people would go for them because...
... of the initial outlay but people seem to love them. It's the sort of thing that could spread - after all, it's much better than losing half of your meal as you walk home".
Indeed it is, and if the idea does catch on in Britain, and there is no reason why it should not, then it would mean far less polystyrene and foil containers littering the landscape. So, a terrific double whammy: you get a great, hot meal and help save the planet at the same time.
Visit:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... ight-0.cms





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