What is Traffic Vada Pav and what is so inspiring about it?

Raise your hands if you also feel extremely hungry while coming back home from work in the evening. It is the time when we all crave for some easy and light to munch in and feel satiated. While we all are still thinking and craving, there is a young man in Mumbai, who has left his full-time job as a pizza delivery boy to serve fresh Vada Pav at traffic signals and is currently earning Rs 2 lakh every month. Scroll below to know his success story. (Image: istock)

Meet 30-year-old Gaurav Londhe of Thane, who started Traffic Vada Pav in 2019 after his personal struggle of starving for 3 hours every day in the evening for the past 10 years, while returning home from work. (Image: istock)

In 2019, he borrowed Rs 1 lakh from his mother and started Traffic Vada Pav, where he sells fresh, hygienic, and neatly-packed vada pavs, with a small water bottle and a tissue paper in a box for Rs 20. The idea has been to help people satiate the evening hunger while driving back home and that’s the reason he runs the business in the peak hours from 5 pm to 10 pm at the Teen Haath Naka, Mumbai. His mother and wife have stood by him as a great support system, as his mother makes the authentic Vada Pav, while his wife helps in packing the snack. (Image: istock)

They cooked 50 Vada Pav for the first day and sadly none of them were sold and this disappointment repeated for the next 5 days. But the very next week, the fate changed and he sold over 100 Vada pavs in a day and since then he never looked back. (Image: istock)

Today, with a team of eight boys and a rented kiosk, he sells about 800 Vada Pavs a day and earns approx Rs 2 lakh per month. Feeling inspired? Well, someone has rightly said, ‘Where there's a will there's a way’. If you also know someone who is doing something unconventional in the food world, share their story with us. (Image: istock)