Our service confuses a lot of people and I can understand why. Lets see , we have been asked
1. are you a restaurant? – No
2. are you a takeaway? – No
3. are you a drive-through – errr NO
Then what exactly do you do?
Ok let me give you some background here.
Once upon a time, a long long long time ago ( only kidding ! ) .. about 18 months ago, we got an SOS from my mom’s friend. Seems her friend’s son had gotten into Exeter University but he was having serious trouble with his food situation. He was one of those ‘strict’ vegetarian food only characters, further complicated by the fact that he had a ‘weak’ stomach and wanted proper Indian food. Unfortunately for him, his health worsened and he fell sick . He was having trouble finding quality authentic Indian food in Exeter, which he could have every day. The Indian takeaways and restaurants were alright but he couldn’t eat there everyday because of various reasons including costs. So they were requesting if we could give him a small ‘tiffin’ atleast a few days a week to help him out.
Where it all started
Now as the request had come from mummy dearest, there was no way to say no. So we ( myself and my wife ) , agreed to share our food with him . Let me paint you a picture here, ever seen that Tom and Jerry cartoon where Jerry feeds this little orphan pup some milk and pup goes away and gets all his friends?? Yup that’s exactly what happened. The food we gave him , he kindly shared with his friend who then talked about it and so on and so forth and we had people calling us asking if we could cook for them. And there in started the Indian Tiffin service in Exeter.
So we then got our heads together and sorted the required permissions and liabilities and tried to figure out how we could do this along side our regular day jobs. We haven’t got it all tied down yet. But our lovely group of customers are so understanding that they let it slide 
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But before I paint the wrong picture here, this isn’t something new or out of the ordinary. The Tiffin service goes back to 1880 and originated in Mumbai and for those that don’t know.. The ‘service’ was actually started by the British! How’s that for coming full circle??
Although there are various facets to a tiffin service and I won’t go into the details here ( unless you want to hear all about it, in which case drop us a line and I’ll do another post on it ) , suffice to say we are pleasantly surprised with the response we have received and are proud to take a small leaf from this glorious tradition ( 125 years old ) that still flourishes and is estimated to be growing around 5-10% each year in India.
Until the next post, eat, work and play hard people!