About Dabba
Dabba is a neighbourhood cooking network in Toronto East. Home cooks post batches, neighbours claim portions before a deadline, and the price drops for everyone as more people join.
Why Dabba exists
Delivery apps solved the problem of getting food from restaurants to your door. They didn’t solve the problem of getting good, home-cooked food from a neighbour who’s already cooking for their family.
Dabba starts from a different premise: what if the best meals in your neighbourhood were already being made by people who live there — and you could order from them the same way they already cook?
The batch model means a cook never wastes food. They cook what has been claimed. The community-price mechanic means everyone pays a fair price, and the more people join, the better the deal for everyone.
What makes Dabba different
Most food platforms connect customers to restaurants or professional kitchens. Dabba connects neighbours to neighbours. The cook is a person in your neighbourhood, cooking the food they already cook for their own family, in the quantities that have been pre-sold.
The pricing model is transparent: the cook sets their price, Dabba takes a service fee, and the price drops in defined tiers as the batch fills. No hidden fees, no surge pricing, no guesswork.
Allergen safety is built in, not bolted on: every dish lists its ingredients and allergens, and customers have a structured allergen profile that blocks ordering when there is a conflict.
Values
Trust through transparency
Every price, fee, and ingredient is stated clearly before you order. Nothing is hidden at the checkout. If a batch doesn’t fill, nobody is charged.
Safety first
Allergens are surfaced and confirmed. Severe conflicts block checkout until you explicitly acknowledge them. We never assume.
No waste
Cooks only prepare what has been claimed. No over-production, no unsold inventory, no markdown. What you order is what gets made.
Community over transactions
Dabba is not a delivery app. It’s a neighbourhood network. The goal is to make it easier to eat well, from someone you know, without anyone guessing how much to cook.
Stage and honest position
Dabba is an early-stage product in active development. The pricing engine and the batch lifecycle are functional and tested. The public site describes a product that exists in demo form. Real operations, real payments, and real customers are the next phase.
The name
Dabba is the word for a packed meal — a tiffin, a bento, a home-cooked portion boxed up for someone else. It’s used across South Asia for the box that a neighbour, a parent, or a coworker brings to share. That’s what Dabba the product is: a way to share what you cook with the people who live around you.