Open a restaurant in India,
without guessing the numbers.
The nine tools
Viability Pre-Assessment
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.
- · Cuisine × city × format saturation
- · Expected food cost % range
- · Break-even day estimate
- · Top 3 format-specific risks
Break-even Calculator
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.
- · Daily and monthly break-even
- · Sensitivity table (food cost % drift)
- · Industry-default Indian cost ratios
- · Shareable result page
Capital Requirement Estimator
Format + city → kitchen equipment + interiors + deposit + licences + working capital. Real ranges by format and city tier — not generic 'around ₹25 lakh' guesses.
- · Real ranges by format (QSR / casual / cloud / café / fine dining)
- · City tier adjustments (T1 / T2 / T3)
- · Working capital sized for 30-45 day cycle
- · Licence cost line per state
Restaurant ROI Calculator
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.
- · 24-month projection with revenue ramp
- · Payback month (cumulative net ≥ investment)
- · Stress scenarios: revenue drop, cost creep, slow ramp
- · Format benchmarks and shareable result page
Menu Pricing Calculator
Dish + recipe + city → minimum viable price + recommended price using live Agmarknet mandi feed. The same data layer that powers Forkcast Supply Watch.
- · Live Agmarknet mandi prices
- · Minimum viable price + recommended margin
- · Per-city ingredient sourcing reference
- · Re-quotes flag if a key commodity has moved >15%
Location / Catchment Scorer
Pincode + cuisine + format → competitor count from Google Places + rent-to-revenue feasibility flag. Pulls real competitor density, not guesses.
- · Competitor count by cuisine + format
- · Rent-to-revenue feasibility flag
- · Top 3 nearby cuisine gaps
Licence & Compliance Checklist
State + format → FSSAI / GST / fire NOC / trade / signage / music / liquor / professional tax: cost, duration, authority. Gated PDF download.
- · Every licence by state
- · Cost + duration + issuing authority
- · Direct deep-link to official portal
- · Gated PDF lead magnet
Cuisine Demand Heatmap
City-level Zomato / Swiggy listing density → over-supplied vs gap cuisines. Decide what to open, not just where.
- · 80+ city heatmaps
- · Over-supplied vs gap cuisines
- · Updated monthly
- · Linked to viability score
First-90-Day Survival Playbook
Email-gated PDF: onboarding, hiring, supplier negotiation, first-month cash management. The playbook the 30% of survivors actually run.
- · Day 1 to day 90 plan
- · Hiring + supplier negotiation
- · First-month cash management
- · Email-gated PDF
Use them in order, or one at a time
Most pre-launch owners take the same path: viability → cuisine demand → location → cost-to-open → break-even → menu pricing → licences → playbook.
Guides from the blog
- 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 launchFSSAI licence in Maharashtra: cost, timeline, documents
FSSAI is the single most-asked-about licence for new restaurant owners. The actual process is simpler than the fixers around FoSCoS suggest. Here is what you actually pay, what you actually upload, and what trips up first-time applicants.
- pre launchCloud kitchen vs casual dining: real costs, real margins, India 2026
Cloud kitchen looks cheaper to open. Whether it actually earns more is a different question once aggregator commission, ad spend, and refund drag are layered in.
Use the tools today. Become a customer when you open.
The same calendar engine, supply watch, and recipe costing that powers the free tools also powers the Forkcast operating brain. Starter is ₹999/month from opening day.