Anybody know of a Desi Tiffin service in Charlotte? (sales, live) - City-Data Forum

kumarshah · 05-11-2008, 01:49 PM

I am looking for one.

Thanks.

anifani821 · 05-11-2008, 02:25 PM

I have no idea what a Desi Tiffin service is! Enlighten me!

docbest74 · 05-11-2008, 04:19 PM

I believe a Tiffin service is some sort of catering thing. I seem to remember hearing that while on my travels...but heck...I may be wrong!

southbound_295 · 05-11-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by anifani821

I have no idea what a Desi Tiffin service is! Enlighten me!

Ani, I had no clue either, so ran it in a search engine. It's something Hindi. Couldn't narrow it down any further than that, though.

Megax · 05-11-2008, 08:28 PM

Sorry I don't know of any such service in CLT.

The first time i saw such a thing was on British chef, Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares tv show....he helped increase sales of an Indian restaurant by getting them to introduce a tiffin service at lunchtimes.

AFAIK, the tiffin refers to the metal containers that the food is delivered in; they are a series of cylindrical tins that inter-lock and allow the food to be compartmentalized - one might have soup, then rice, then curry etc -quite ingenious.

Hopefully this pic turns-out:

anifani821 · 05-11-2008, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Megax

Sorry I don't know of any such service in CLT.

The first time i saw such a thing was on British chef, Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares tv show....he helped increase sales of an Indian restaurant by getting them to introduce a tiffin service at lunchtimes.

AFAIK, the tiffin refers to the metal containers that the food is delivered in; they are a series of cylindrical tins that inter-lock and allow the food to be compartmentalized - one might have soup, then rice, then curry etc -quite ingenious.

Hopefully this pic turns-out:
http://blog.ssrinivas.com/uploaded_images/tiffin-carrier-747918.jpg (broken link)

Well, MegaX - thank you so much for sharing this w/ us! I was feeling especially ignorant b/c I had no idea what the poster was referring to!

That does look quite ingenious . . .

sheenie2000 · 05-11-2008, 08:50 PM

i'm actually indian and i didnt know what it was either lol. i had to ask my husband! he said it's a lunchbox service where someone prepares indian food and bread and delivers it to u. nice service!

anifani821 · 05-11-2008, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by sheenie2000

i'm actually indian and i didnt know what it was either lol. i had to ask my husband! he said it's a lunchbox service where someone prepares indian food and bread and delivers it to u. nice service!

I wonder if anyone does have this type of service here . . . if not, someone should start it! I would bet there would be a lot of business uptown at lunchtime.

Now I am hungry!!!!

lumbollo · 10-08-2009, 04:42 AM

That looks like one of these things that I bought overseas a few years ago. Thought it would be useful from a practical standpoint but it was so unusual looking it became a kitchen decoration instead.

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PlainWhite · 10-08-2009, 07:57 AM

Given the apparent size of the Indian population in the Ballantyne/Blakeney area, there is a real shortage of Indian restaurants. Below Rt. 51 there is only one that I now of -- Nirvana. If somebody opened an inexpensive take-out Indian down here (say at Cedar Walk or the Shops at Ardrey Kell), I bet it would do gangbuster business!