Cloud kitchens, Internet restaurants: Indian housewives become gig economy chefs

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MUMBAI (AFP) - Ms Rashmi Sahijwala never expected to start working at the age of 59, let alone join India's gig economy - now she is part of an army of housewives turning their homes into 'cloud kitchens' to feed time-starved millennials.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

MUMBAI - Ms Rashmi Sahijwala never expected to start working at the age of 59, let alone join India's gig economy. Now she is part of an army of housewives turning their homes into"cloud kitchens" to feed time-starved millennials.

But new apps like Curryful, Homefoodi, and Nanighar are tapping the skills of housewives to slice, dice and prepare meals for hungry urbanites from the comfort of their homes. "We usually train them in processes of sanitisation, cooking, prep time and packaging... and then launch them on the platform," Mr Mathew told AFP.

The learning curve was steep and Ms Sahijwala switched from cooking everything from scratch to preparing curries and batters for breads in advance to save time and limit leftovers. Today Ms Vyas works seven hours a day, five days a week in her kitchen, serving up a bevy of Indian vegetarian staples, from street food favourites to lentils and rice, according to the app's weekly set menus.

 

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