When we talk about food delivery, it is easy to imagine it while sitting in the comfort of your home and ordering online, but what happens if you are suddenly craving a pizza in the middle of a train journey. Instead of forcing yourself to stifle that craving and eating what is available at hand, you can now go ahead and order food in your train from across 1000 plus stations in India in the best and the easiest possible way. There are various partners that online train food delivery apps and websites have. All you need to do is to go ahead and order from the food menu of the restaurant partners while you’re in the train.
To do so, all you need to do is- enter the train number for which you want to order food. Then you enter the date of the journey and click on the submit tab. After this, you can play with various customizations on the food menu to order only what you want to. After this you can chose to pay via a secure payment gateway or you can go for the cash on delivery option as well. Go on and submit more information about your travel and click on the order tab. Now you can sit and enjoy your Train Food Delivery right where you’re sitting, without having to move an inch.
However if you still want to eat in the train and you’re worried about the quality of the food, we’ll give you a list of facts that should make you feel okay with whatever you put in your mouth.
- Chapatti makers: Your chapatti isn’t hand rolled. There are huge chapatti makers that churn out equal and uniform sized chapatti in a minute and a half.
- Steam kettles: Steam kettles cook rice in tonnes.
- Cutting machine/Vegetable chopper: A huge vegetable chopper goes about chopping more than 400 kilograms of vegetables in hour.
All this makes the huge kitchen of the Indian Railways, a class apart. This kitchen works tirelessly so that the passengers can get hygienic, affordably priced meal which is also delicious. This kitchen which has a factory type assembly line that churns out more than 10,000 meals every day that is then loaded and served on Duronto, Rajadhani and other trains. Infact the Indian Railways cares so much about their passengers that there is special food for diabetic travellers on trains like Shatabdi and Rajdhani.
What works for the train kitchens is their efficiency and functionality. The kitchens are completely automated with state of art equipments that come from manufacturers abroad. Everything is separately stacked in different rooms. Raw materials are on the ground floor where rice, vermicelli, pulses, spices and other dry items are put together with labels for different things. Everyday new perishable items come and the dry items come once in three days.
This is the organized way in which the food department of Indian Railways goes about on a daily basis.
