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出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/05/07 07:49 UTC 版)

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A dabbawala (Marathi: डबेवाला); also spelled as dabbawalla or dabbawallah; literally meaning "person with a box"), is a person in India, most commonly found in the city of Mumbai, who is employed in a unique service industry whose primary business is collecting the freshly cooked food in lunch boxes from the residences of the office workers (mostly in the suburbs), delivering it to their respective workplaces and returning the empty boxes back to the customer's residence by using various modes of transport. "Tiffin" is an old-fashioned English word for a light lunch or afternoon snack, and sometimes for the box it is carried in. For this reason, the dabbawalas are sometimes called Tiffin Wallahs.