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Inspection readiness for running restaurants.
Featured · Inspection readiness
Interactive FSSAI inspection checklist for running restaurants. Zone-based self-audit with readiness score, top fixes, and shareable results.
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Demand, competition, and location.
Cuisine + city + format + budget. Get a saturation score, expected food cost %, break-even day, payback months, and the top 3 risks for your specific format-city combo.
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City-level Zomato / Swiggy listing density → over-supplied vs gap cuisines. Decide what to open, not just where.
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Pincode + cuisine + format → competitor count from Google Places + rent-to-revenue feasibility flag. Pulls real competitor density, not guesses.
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Economics
Profit, food cost, revenue, break-even, and ROI.
Enter revenue, food cost, staff, rent, and utilities — get net profit, margin %, prime cost, a health score, and India format benchmarks. Daily, weekly, or monthly.
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Ingredient cost + selling price → food cost %, gross profit per plate, and the recommended menu price for your target %. Deep-link to live mandi recipe costing when you need more.
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Seats, turns, ATV + delivery orders → daily, monthly, and annual gross revenue. Format presets for QSR, casual dining, cloud kitchen, and more.
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Pick your city and format — see what you'll spend upfront, what you'll pay each month, and how much cash to keep aside before opening day.
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The most important number on a restaurant P&L. Enter rent, salaries, utilities, and variable cost rate — get your daily and monthly break-even. Public extract of the in-product panel.
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Capex + revenue ramp + P&L costs → 24-month cash-flow projection, payback month, annual ROI %, and stress scenarios. Answers whether the investment comes back in a timeline you can survive.
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Launch
Licences and the first ninety days.
State + format → FSSAI / GST / fire NOC / trade / signage / music / liquor / professional tax: cost, duration, authority. Gated PDF download.
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Email-gated PDF: onboarding, hiring, supplier negotiation, first-month cash management. The playbook the 30% of survivors actually run.
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From the blog
- pre launchHow much does it cost to open a restaurant in India?National 2026 bands by format, with construction/fit-out as its own line — then city posts for Pune, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Chennai. Run the free estimator for your city.
- pre launchHow much does it actually cost to open a restaurant in Pune in 2026?Most ‘restaurant cost’ blogs stop at ‘around ₹25 lakh’. Here is the line by line breakdown for a 60 seat casual dining restaurant on FC Road or Kothrud: equipment, interiors, deposits, licences, working capital, and the four numbers most owners forget.
- pre launchCost to open a restaurant in Mumbai (2026): line by lineMumbai's restaurant capex runs 1.4-1.7× a comparable Pune opening; the deltas are rent, deposit, and contractor rates. Here is the line by line for a 60 seat casual dining in Bandra/Andheri/Lower Parel.
- pre launchCost to open a restaurant in Hyderabad (2026): line by lineHyderabad capex sits at 0.85-1.1× Pune; surprisingly affordable for a T1 metro. Banjara Hills and Jubilee Hills are the rent ceiling; HITEC City and Madhapur are the IT corridor sweet spots. Here is the line by line.
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