Overview
- Ayushi Doshi’s tweet said her cook charges ₹18,000 per household per month and completes two daily meals in about 30 minutes across 10–12 homes within the same complex.
- Calculating his schedule, the cook can earn around ₹1.8–2 lakh a month, according to Doshi’s estimates.
- Users on X questioned whether one person could prepare meals so quickly for so many families and challenged the math behind the claimed fees.
- Doshi maintained in interviews that these rates are standard in well-to-do Mumbai neighborhoods and rejected suggestions of engagement farming or exaggeration.
- The online debate has prompted wider reflection on rising domestic help costs and how metropolitan service economies value skilled labor.