This Man From Thane Quit His Manager Job And Started Selling Vada Pavs - Why? #shorts

[0:00]This Thane manager quit his manager job to sell vada pavs at traffic signals and turned Mumbai's biggest headache into a business. But how do you sell food to people stuck inside their cars? In 2009, Gaurav Londhe started as a pizza delivery boy in Andheri, spending three hours daily covering just 24 km back to Thane because of traffic. Every single evening, he'd sit hungry in a jam with no way to get food. One day, a peanut vendor passed by and that small snack changed his whole mood. It hit him that what if lakhs of people stuck in evening traffic could get a proper meal delivered right to their car window. He quit everything mid-2019 to start Traffic Vada Pav. His mother lent him ₹1 lakh from her life savings and his wife cooked the vada pavs at home, while Gaurav hit the streets. So Gaurav launched Traffic Vada Pav in Thane with neatly boxed vada pavs with a water bottle and tissue paper, all for just ₹20. On day one, nobody trusted the box, so he gave 50 away for free. He kept doing this for five days straight, and by the second week, people started calling in for more. His team in orange T-shirts became a familiar sight at the signal during peak hours from 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM. And by 2021, Gaurav was selling around 800 vada pavs a day with a team of eight sellers earning around ₹2 lakh in monthly revenue. From a delivery boy's frustration to a food entrepreneur serving hundreds daily, all because he paid attention to a problem everyone else has complained about. Share this with your Mumbai friends and follow for more such business breakdowns.