Meet Rayees Ahmad, the 29-year-old 'tiffin man of Kashmir’

Rayees Ahmad, a resident of Srinagar in the Kashmir valley, had started his dream venture ‘Tiffin Aaw’ in 2019 with the sole purpose of serving hot plates of healthy, home-cooked meals to fellow Kashmiris. Loosely translated, "tiffin aaw" would mean "your meal is here".

Ahmad, 29, who is popularly known as 'Kashmir's Swiggy Boy' prefers to call himself the tiffin man of India and boasts of his food delivery service being Kashmir’s “first tiffin service”. Residents of Kashmir can dial his number to book a pocket-friendly and healthy meal from Tiffin Aaw.

The Kashmiri youth, who used to work in the media industry as an ad-man, decided to start the home cooked meal delivery service on one cold winter night when stringent lockdown measures were in place in Kashmir following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution.

India Times quoted the 'Tiffin Man of Kashmir' as saying, "It was a foggy winter night and I got a call from one of my friends at 11 pm saying that he had not eaten anything since morning due to the lockdown and requested if I can arrange something for him. I entered the kitchen, packed the food in a tiffin box and left to drop the order at his office on my two-wheeler. After collecting the tiffin box a few days later, the idea clicked my mind: This is something I need to do.”