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Heading out for a summer vacation and forgot your favourite sunnies back home, it shall be picked and dropped right at the airport to you; wanna put your feet up and relax through the weekend, you have someone to take care of the laundry for you; crave something special from Ludhiana, worry not, hot and fresh it would be delivered on your table in the Tricity!

What a NET-work!


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Heading out for a summer vacation and forgot your favourite sunnies back home, it shall be picked and dropped right at the airport to you; wanna put your feet up and relax through the weekend, you have someone to take care of the laundry for you; crave something special from Ludhiana, worry not, hot and fresh it would be delivered on your table in the Tricity!

Gone are the days when one had time to run errands, tend household chores or hang out at one’s favourite eatery waiting for the table to get free... the new generation wants everything no more than a click away.

At your service

Now who doesn’t get caught in dual responsibilities of home and office? And, not all of us have personal assistants to run errands for us. So comes in MyBuddy.Vishal Bhardwaj has been a regular patron of this city start-up and banks on buddy assistant for everything — right from dropping a cheque, paying utility bills or picking up his favourite dal makhani and paneer from Vaishno Dhaba-8. “I came to know about this service through a Facebook post and found it rather good. The moment I ask for it, there is a text and I can track my personal assistant real time. It saves the hassle and the work is done for Rs 50 most of the time,” says this entrepreneur, who uses this Tricity service for anything, right from fetching medicines to food from eateries that don’t deliver! 

“At times when I am away and some papers are needed urgently at office, I just send an email...print-outs taken, they are delivered well in time wherever I want,” says Vishal, who dials MyBuddy often.

Wash it down

Mandeep and Supreet Singh are like any modern-day couple; he a software engineer, she a blogger and the long hours put in through the week gave them little time for each other. Come weekends and the laundry took up major chunk of the time…till Mandeep got a referral for washoncall.com. “One sure doesn’t want to give one’s fine clothes to a dhobi, but a professional facility like this is convenient, cost-effective and just a click away,” reasons Mandeep, who has outsourced all washing to this service that duly picks, cleans and delivers steam-ironed clothes within 48 hours flat! “If it comes to cooking one can understand you want to do it yourself, according to your individual tastes, but washing requires same results regardless of who does it,” shares 

this techie, who is quite pleased with the antiseptic wash, quality check and neat packaging that washoncall.com provides and that too at reasonable rates.  

Food for thought

Now how can food be far behind? Craving butter chicken from Baba chicken, dry lemon chicken from Aman or seekh kebab from Manga, the famous eateries from Ludhaina...well, place the order before 1:30 pm and have it on your table before 8 pm! “There are some specialties that one only gets only in Ludhiana and how nice to have them while in Chandigarh,” shares Harpreet Sachdeva, who swears by FoodManchester, which delivers specialities from all old good places. “I am especially fond of the famous desi ghee Jammu pooris that they offer on Sunday brunch.” Now if you think getting food delivered from another city would cost a bomb or might go bad considering the heat, this foodie puts all the queries to rest, “FoodManchester only charges some Rs 50 extra per dish and their icepacks deliver food really fresh!” Well, as soon as they offer specialities like Makhan ki fish or Sunder ka mutton tikka from Amritsar, we would be tempted to try!

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