Plan your restaurant before you sign the lease.
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Inspection readiness for running restaurants.
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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
Revenue, capex, break-even, and ROI.
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 launchCost to open a café in Mumbai and Bengaluru (2026)A café costs less than a full-service restaurant but the capex spread is still wide — ₹28L in a Bengaluru suburb vs ₹55L on Mumbai's Linking Road for the same concept. Here is the line-by-line breakdown for both cities in 2026.
- pre launchCost to open a restaurant in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, KochiTier-2 city restaurant capex runs 40-60% below Mumbai for the same format — but the savings are mostly rent and deposit, not equipment. Here is the 2026 line-by-line for Ahmedabad, Jaipur, and Kochi.
- pre launchHow much does it cost to open a cloud kitchen in India in 2026?Cloud kitchen capex is quoted as '₹10-15 lakh' in pitch decks. The real number for a single-brand, aggregator-first kitchen in a tier-1 city is ₹12-22 lakh all-in — if you don't forget packaging inventory, aggregator onboarding, and 45 days of working capital.
- pre launchFire NOC for restaurants: cost and timeline by stateFire NOC is the licence that blocks everything else — no Trade Licence, no aggregator listing, no opening without it. Cost and timeline vary sharply by state and premises size. Here is the 2026 breakdown and the filing sequence that avoids a 60-day delay.
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