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Tiffin Wallahs are the people in India who deliver hot lunches to people at work.

Tiffin Wallah translates as – “one who carries the box”. Tiffin is an old English word for a light lunch, and also the name of the multi-compartment metal lunch box that carries it. Tiffin Wallahs originated over a century ago when the many Indians working for British companies disliked the food served at work. Tiffin service was created to bring home cooking to the workplace.

It’s an amazing system without a system! Modern supply chain afficinados are absolutely fascinated by the way India  has created and perfected this system And here is an Aussie entrepreneur having a crack of introducing a version of this into Melbourne by the looks of things…

As journalists go, Gwynne Dyer is one of the better ones and whenever I see one of his syndicated articles appear in the NZ Herald I read it – even if the topic is not necessarily my flavour.  At the very minimum, I will learn something. His latest article discusses food supply.  He takes the position that the assumption we have held until now of  there being enough food on the world for everyone if we could only get it to the right place at the right time is wrong.   He is predicting a global shortage of food and all the unpleasantness that would go with it.
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