Restaurant Guides
Practical guides for running a restaurant in India — tax and compliance, cost control, choosing software, and cutting the commission you pay to delivery platforms.
GST on Restaurants in India: A Practical Guide
How GST works for Indian restaurants — the 5% and 18% slabs, when input tax credit applies, what to put on an invoice, and how aggregator orders are taxed.
How to Reduce Swiggy and Zomato Commission
What aggregator commission really costs an Indian restaurant per year, and the practical levers for cutting it without losing the discovery the platforms bring.
Food Cost Percentage: How to Calculate It and What to Do About It
How to calculate food cost percentage, what a healthy figure looks like by restaurant format, and the operational reasons the number drifts upward over time.
KOT Systems for Restaurants: A Complete Guide
What a Kitchen Order Ticket system does, how printed KOT compares with a kitchen display screen, and how to route tickets when you run multiple kitchen sections.
How to Choose a Restaurant POS System in India
A buyer's guide to restaurant POS systems in India — the requirements that actually differ between vendors, what the pricing model hides, and how to run a trial.
Restaurant Billing Apps: What They Do and When You Need More
What a restaurant billing app needs to do in India — GST invoices, UPI, KOT printing — and how to tell when you have outgrown one and need a full POS.
POS vs Billing Software: What Is the Difference?
POS and billing software are not the same thing. What each actually covers, which one your restaurant needs, and the signals that you have outgrown billing alone.
Billing Software for Small Restaurants and Dhabas
What billing software a small restaurant or dhaba actually needs, what to ignore, and why complexity is why small kitchens abandon software they paid for.
Petpooja Alternatives: An Honest Evaluation Guide
Why restaurants look for Petpooja alternatives, what Petpooja genuinely does well, and how to compare the options without switching to something worse.
How to Create a Free QR Code Menu for Your Restaurant
How to make a QR code menu for your restaurant, the difference between a PDF menu and an ordering menu, and what free QR menu tools usually charge for later.
FSSAI Licence for Restaurants: What You Need and How to Get It
Which FSSAI licence your restaurant needs, the documents required, how to apply on FoSCoS, and the renewal and display rules that catch people out.
How to Register Your Restaurant on Swiggy and Zomato
What you need to list a restaurant on Swiggy and Zomato, how the onboarding actually works, and the decisions to make before you go live.
How to Open a Restaurant in India
The sequence for opening a restaurant in India — concept, location, licences, kitchen, staffing and launch — and the order that avoids expensive rework.
What It Costs to Open a Restaurant in India
How to build a realistic budget for opening a restaurant in India — the cost categories, which ones people underestimate, and why working capital decides survival.
How to Start a Cloud Kitchen in India
What a cloud kitchen actually costs to start in India, how multi-brand operations work, and why discovery — not rent — is the real economic challenge.
Restaurant Profit Margins in India
What restaurant profit margins actually look like in India, the cost structure behind them, and the levers that move the number in practice.
Menu Engineering: Building a Menu That Makes Money
How to classify dishes by popularity and contribution, what to do with each category, and the menu design choices that shift what customers order.
ONDC for Restaurants: What It Is and Whether to Join
What ONDC is, how restaurants list on it, how the economics compare with Swiggy and Zomato, and an honest view of where the network is today.
Restaurant POS Transaction Fees: What They Really Cost
How per-transaction POS fees work, what they add up to over a year, and the questions that reveal the true cost of a system before you commit.
How to Register a Restaurant or Cloud Kitchen on Zomato (2026)
What Zomato charges to onboard a restaurant or cloud kitchen — registration fees, commission rates, the FSSAI and GST documents needed, and approval time.
Petpooja Software Price & Total Cost of Ownership (2026)
What Petpooja costs in India — annual subscription pricing, per-outlet and add-on module charges, hardware lock-in, and the total you actually pay in year one.
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