Daig Food vs Lunch Boxes: Which Should Your Office Order?
20 August 2026
Once an office settles on a plan and a price, the second question is always the same: daig ya boxes?
Both camps feel strongly about it. The daig camp says food tastes better served hot from one pot and hates paying for packaging. The box camp says grown professionals shouldn't be queuing with plates at 1 pm. Both are a little bit right, so here is the honest comparison we give offices on WhatsApp every week — written down properly, math included.
What daig service actually means
Your team's food arrives in shared deghs — cooked that morning, sealed, still properly hot because bulk holds heat far better than any individual box does. Someone at the office serves, everyone eats together, and our riders rotate the empties on the next delivery.
The price advantage is simple: daig service costs nothing extra. The per-head rate on your plan is the whole bill. It's also the least wasteful option by far — one degh instead of twenty boxes a day, every day.
The honest downsides: you need a spot to serve, plates and spoons at the office, and someone willing to do the serving. Portions are self-managed too — in every office there's one friend who takes the extra kabab. If your team eats together at a fixed break time, none of this is a real problem. If lunch happens in shifts, it starts to be.
What box service actually means
Every person gets an individual box — and here we're picky, because this is where cheap catering shows its true face. We pack in sturdy, food-grade PVC boxes, not the thin throw-away kind that folds into the delivery bag and leaks qorma onto someone's keyboard. That box costs Rs. 20 per head per day on top of your plan rate, and it's the only extra charge we have.
What you get for it: fixed, fair portions for everyone; no serving, no plates, no cleanup; lunch that can sit at reception and be picked up whenever each person's break actually happens. For offices with staggered timings, multiple floors, or a formal front-of-house, boxes are usually the right call.
The honest downsides: the Rs. 20, and more packaging waste than a degh will ever produce.
The monthly math, side by side
Take a team of fifteen on our Silver plan (Rs. 300 per head), eating Monday to Friday — about twenty-two serving days:
- Daig service: 300 × 15 × 22 = Rs. 99,000 a month. Done.
- Box service: (300 + 20) × 15 × 22 = Rs. 1,05,600 a month — Rs. 6,600 more, or Rs. 440 per person.
That's the entire difference. Rs. 440 per person per month buys convenience and fixed portions; skipping it buys nothing except the same food served the traditional way. Neither answer is wrong — it's a culture question, not a catering question.
How to decide in one minute
Pick daig if: your team eats together at one break time, you have a serving spot and plates, and the budget-minded side of the office is loud.
Pick boxes if: breaks are staggered, the team is spread across floors, clients walk through your office at lunch time, or nobody wants to own the serving job.
And if you genuinely can't decide, ask us — we'll tell you what similar-sized offices on your route chose. A mix is possible too; talk to us and we'll set it up sensibly.
Questions offices ask about this
Is the Rs. 20 charged per box or per day? Per head, per serving day. One person, one box, one lunch — Rs. 20. It's on top of the plan rate, and it's our only extra charge, as covered in the full cost breakdown.
Can we start with daig and switch to boxes later? Yes. Tell us and we adjust from the next delivery. Plenty of offices try both in their first month and settle on what fits.
Do you take the deghs back? Yes — our riders rotate them, delivering today's and collecting the empties. You never store our cookware for long.
Are the boxes microwave-safe? They're sturdy food-grade PVC meant for serving, and the food arrives hot — but if your office reheats, transfer to a plate first.
Does the choice change the food? Not one bit. Same kitchen, same degh, same morning's cooking — the only difference is what it travels in.
The bottom line
Daig is cheaper, hotter and cleaner for the planet. Boxes are neater, fairer and easier to run. Choose based on how your office actually eats, not on what sounds more professional.
Whichever side you land on, the menus and rates are public at feastpilaf.com/meal-plans, the build-your-own planner works out the box charge automatically if you want it, and the first sample lunch for your office is on us — WhatsApp 0315 9093990.