Abstract:

Urbanization has resulted in an increase of road side food vendors and hawkers as the movement of people from rural to urban areas has led to the need to feed large number of people away from their place of residence. In many foreign countries, street vendors prepare the first meal of the day for people belong to low income. Statistics reveals that approximately 30% of house hold food expenditure were devoted to purchase readymade meal from outside, also reports says that, upto 20% of the households budget is spent in this way. Since food industry is an emerging as well as evergreen field, by which it can able to create and provide employment opportunities to many, on the other hand it can able to serve large number of people who are travelling a long distance, and this is the main advantage of food industry.


Keywords: Road Side Vendors, Food Industry, Informal Sector, street vendor, Economic Growth. ;