Ambika Rasoi brings healthy home food to Dumka

Ambika Rasoi is Lawazia's kitchen in Dumka. It cooks home food, every day, for people who would otherwise eat outside.

Lunch and dinner. Roti, rice, dal, sabzi. The kind of plate a family cooks at home, made fresh in one kitchen and sent out to the people who eat from it. That is the whole idea. Ghar ka khana, har din. Home food, every day.

Why a kitchen

A lot of people in Dumka do not eat at home. Students who came from another town. Young people working in an office. Someone living alone in a rented room. For them the choice is usually a hotel plate, fried snacks, or skipping the meal.

That food fills you once. It does not keep you well across a month. Too much oil, too much spice, no idea what went into it. People eat it because there is nothing else at that hour, not because they want to.

Ambika Rasoi started for that problem. Lawazia's own team eats from the same kitchen. The food is cooked the way a house cooks: fresh that day, simple, the same dal and sabzi a mother would make. Not food made to look good in a photo and sit heavy after.

Home food, every day, for people who are not at home.

Cooked fresh that day, in one kitchen, the way a house cooks.

Healthy, without the big words

"Healthy" is an easy word to put on a poster. Here it means a few plain things.

The food is cooked fresh, the way a home kitchen cooks, not the way a hotel cooks for a crowd. The plate has roti, rice, dal, and a vegetable, so a day is not just carbohydrate and chutney. If you do not want onion, or want less spice, the kitchen knows that about you and cooks your plate that way.

It also means the kitchen does not guess at amounts. The flour for roti and the rice are weighed. The kitchen knows how much went into a plate. That is how it can tell you what you are eating instead of only promising it is good.

We are careful not to claim more than we measure. A plate of home food will not cure anything. It will feed you properly, every day, which outside food usually does not.

The plan: a community kitchen

Ambika Rasoi is the start of something bigger. The plan is a community kitchen for Dumka.

A community kitchen is one good kitchen that many people share. Students in hostels and rooms. People in offices. Families who need help on some days. Older people who cannot cook every meal. Instead of each person finding food alone, one kitchen cooks well for all of them, and the cost of good ingredients is shared.

That is harder than it sounds. A kitchen that feeds many people has to know how many are eating, what each person can and cannot eat, what it bought, and what it threw away. If it does not know those things, it either wastes food or runs out. Most small kitchens run on memory and a notebook, and that stops working as soon as the list grows.

So before the kitchen grows, the way it runs has to be right. That is where the app comes in.

Excelrs built the app

Excelrs, where Lawazia trains people and builds its products, built the Rasoi app. It lives at rasoi.lawazia.tech.

The work started in June 2026 and was written by Excelrs people. Om Kumar Choubey set up the project. Habiba Yashmin built preferences, so what you can and cannot eat is saved on you, not in a WhatsApp message the cook might miss. Varsha built the cook's page, where the kitchen sees the meal and who is eating it. Atul Kumar Rawani built the history, so you can see your own meals, and the nutrition for roti and rice, worked out from what the kitchen weighs.

What the app does for an ordinary day:

• You can mark that you are not eating today, so the kitchen does not cook for an empty seat.
• The cook sees who is eating, and each person's notes, before the pot goes on.
• Your month stays as one month. You do not order again every afternoon.
• You can look back at what you ate, and what was in it.
• The kitchen records what it buys and what it uses, so it knows whether the week paid for itself.

That last point is the community kitchen point. A kitchen that wants to feed many people has to know its own numbers. The app gives it those numbers without anyone keeping a ledger by hand.

Your month, your days away, and your meals, in one app.

And it is AI powered

The app is the record. AI is the help on top of it.

Lawazia's AI companion, Ampy, is connected to Rasoi. If you are on a Rasoi plan, you can tell it in plain words to skip tomorrow's lunch, pause your meals while you travel, start them again, or save that you do not eat onion. You do not hunt for the right screen or call anyone. Before it changes anything, it shows you what it is about to do and waits for your yes.

The kitchen side has AI too. When the cook marks who is absent, an AI agent first built by an Excelrs intern counts who is still eating, reads their preferences, and prepares what the kitchen needs to order. That agent is now being folded into Ampy, so the kitchen and the people eating from it use one assistant instead of several.

None of this changes the food. The dal is still dal. The AI is there so the kitchen spends its time cooking, not counting, and so eating well does not need a phone call.

What this is not

This is not a restaurant, and it is not a delivery app for any dish you like. It is one kitchen cooking home food on a plan.

This is not finished. The community kitchen is the plan, not a claim that it already feeds the whole city. Ambika Rasoi is proving that one kitchen can run well first.

This is not a price list. Ask the kitchen what a month includes.

Where to start

If you eat from Ambika Rasoi, your month is on rasoi.lawazia.tech, and you can ask Ampy to skip, pause, or change it.

If you want home food in Dumka every day, ask Ambika Rasoi.

If you want a kitchen like this where you are, that is the community kitchen plan, and Lawazia would like to talk.

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