Will tomorrow
be profitable?
Forkcast tells you the answer, with tomorrow's operating plan.
60–70% of Indian restaurants
close in year one.
The food is rarely the problem. The numbers are. Most owners don't know their break-even, price dishes by feel, and discover a bad month when the cash runs out.
Financial Blindness
No break-even awareness. Food cost climbs from 30% to 48% over weeks. The owner notices at month-end, when the money's already gone.
Demand Guessing
Ordering by memory causes 20–30% food waste. No one connects Shravan fasting to tomorrow's prep list. ₹18,000 of chicken, wasted.
Supply Blindness
LPG runs out, onion prices triple, cooking oil doubles. No warning, no buffer plan. The restaurant that was profitable on paper closes for three days.
Three steps to never guessing again
Connect your POS
Petpooja syncs nightly. UrbanPiper and Posist via CSV. Add recipe cards and fixed costs once. Zero IT, ready in minutes.
India signals, built in
Fasting calendars, mandi prices, weather, cricket. Each signal is calibrated to your cuisine type and city. No Western tool does this.
One brief, every decision in it
Tomorrow's forecast, break-even check, shopping list, staffing plan, and supply alerts. All in one daily bundle.
Every decision flows from one forecast
Connected panels for every daily decision, from what to buy this morning to which dishes are silently killing your margin.
Revenue Forecast
Tomorrow's predicted revenue with confidence range. The model explains its reasoning (festival uplift, rain effect, salary week) so you understand every number.
Break-even Check
Enter your fixed costs once. Every morning you see: "Forecast ₹24,800 › Break-even ₹15,878. Profit contribution ₹8,922." Every month: the day you hit break-even.
Ingredient Shopping List
Exact quantities per ingredient, from your recipe cards and tomorrow's forecast dish mix. Ready to forward to your sabzi vendor.
Peak-Hour Staffing Plan
Cooks and floor staff scaled to cover count. Shift hours derived from your actual hourly order pattern, not a guess.
Menu Engineering
See which dishes actually make money, not just which ones sell. “Butter Chicken: 240 orders a week but only 26% margin. Reprice ₹20 or cut portion cost.”
Supply Early Warnings
LPG, chicken, onion, oil. 2–7 days before a shortage hits your margin. Sourced from mandi prices and news signals, scanned every 6 hours.
Food Cost Tracker
Watches your ingredient spend vs revenue every week. When food cost creeps from 32% to 40% silently, Forkcast catches it before the month is gone.
The signals every Western tool ignores
Navratri cuts non-veg demand by 40%. A cricket final drives delivery 2×. Shravan month can halve a biryani restaurant's revenue for 30 days. Forkcast knows all of this, and adjusts for your cuisine type. Pick a signal to see the swing.
Shravan month
Jul–Aug · 30 daysWidespread fasting collapses non-veg demand for a full month while paneer and veg combos spike. Forkcast reshapes your prep weeks ahead.
Aarav runs a 40-seat restaurant on FC Road, Pune.
Monthly revenue ₹12L. Running 2 years. Same week repeating, every week.
Pays for itself the first week
it catches a food cost problem.
A Growth plan restaurant that catches food cost creeping 32% → 40% and corrects it saves ₹64,000/month on ₹8L revenue. The plan costs ₹2,499.
- Revenue forecast + confidence range
- Break-even calculator
- Daily ingredient shopping list
- Staffing plan (cooks + floor)
- Daily decision brief (dashboard + optional WhatsApp)
- Petpooja / UrbanPiper / Posist import
- Everything in Starter
- Food cost % tracking (real-time)
- Weekly P&L panel
- Menu engineering (Star / Plow Horse)
- Supply Watch alerts
- Forecast accuracy tracker
- Everything in Growth
- Multi-outlet dashboard
- Consolidated P&L view
- Cross-outlet benchmarking
- API access
- Priority support
All plans include a 14-day free trial · No credit card required · Cancel anytime
Live at Hindkesari, a non-veg restaurant in Pune
Connected directly to their Petpooja. Orders sync every night, automatically. Forkcast already maps the next 30 days of demand for them, factoring in fasting days, festivals, weather, and the salary cycle. No spreadsheets, no guessing.
| What Forkcast spotted | Detail | Action it suggests |
|---|---|---|
| 1 festival day | Buddha Purnima (Fri, May 1) | Cut non-veg prep ~20%, push veg specials |
| 19 fasting days | Ekadashi, Amavasya, weekly observances | Shift portions toward paneer and veg combos |
| 14 quiet days | Below-baseline projection | Lean kitchen, lunch flash offers on Zomato |
| Pre-salary lean window | Last week of the month | Promote ₹199 mini-thali and lunch deals |
| Heat-wave days | Multiple days >38°C in the window | Stock lassi and buttermilk, push delivery |
Generated from Hindkesari's 30-day forward forecast (Apr 23 to May 22, 2026). Onboarding outlet #2 and #3 next.
Know tomorrow's profit before the kitchen opens.
Connect your POS and get your first forecast, break-even check, and prep plan in under 5 minutes. No card required.