Practical writing for independent restaurant owners -- costing, compliance, and how the product works.
Most restaurants lose money in small, quiet ways: a dish with no recipe, a card fee nobody recorded, waste nobody logged. A daily routine for each role, checked against real records, stops them before they add up.
Read the postAsk a restaurant owner what their profit was yesterday and most will give you a sales figure instead. That isn't carelessness. Profit depends on a dozen small records being right: what each dish costs to make, what was thrown away, what the staff cost, what the card machine kept, what was spent on supplies. If any of those is missing, the profit figure is wrong, and nobody finds out until the month ends and the bank balance doesn't match the feeling.
EasyBills runs the whole restaurant from one app. Petpooja and DotPe’s Rista need add-ons, separate products or other software for the books, payroll, purchases and staff routines. Compared from each company’s own website.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 6 minWhat happens to a restaurant’s billing, kitchen tickets and table management when the internet drops — and what to actually check before trusting a POS’s "offline mode" claim.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 5 minFrom 15 October 2026 a 0.4% MDR applies to UPI payments to merchants above ₹2,000. What it means for a restaurant’s pricing, reconciliation and books — and who is actually exempt.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 6 minHow to build a prep list that matches what you will actually sell, not a guess — par levels, using sales history, and what to do with what is left over.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 6 minA practical opening and closing checklist for a restaurant, split by who actually does each task, plus the cash and stock checks that catch problems before they become losses.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 7 minWhat Swiggy and Zomato actually take from every order once GST, payment fees and ads are added in, and how to price your menu differently on each channel without losing track of your margin.
Read →27 Sept 2026 · 6 minA restaurant AI assistant that answers real questions about your own sales, costs and staff in plain language — what it can do, what it deliberately cannot touch, and what it costs.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 7 minA practical checklist for choosing restaurant billing software in India: GST-ready invoices, offline mode, KOT, inventory, accounting, hardware and honest pricing.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 5 minMenu engineering plots every dish by popularity and margin. Learn the four categories — stars, plowhorses, puzzles and dogs — and what to do with each.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 6 minA practical walkthrough of preparing and filing GSTR-1 for a restaurant: reconciling invoices, B2B vs B2C, delivery-app orders, credit notes and due dates.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 6 minSales are not profit. These five numbers — sales by payment mode, food cost, prime cost, dish margin and P&L — tell you how your restaurant is really doing.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 6 minA practical routine for restaurant inventory: par levels, weekly counts, wastage tracking, receiving checks and linking stock to recipes so it depletes on its own.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 9 minHow QR code ordering and payment work, what QR ordering really costs a restaurant in India, and how to run it free, or with counter billing for ₹100 a month.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 7 minThe food cost formula with a free calculator, a worked example, what a good food cost percentage is, and how to cost a single dish down to the plate.
Read →19 Sept 2026 · 6 minHow GST works for restaurants in India: the 5% rate without input tax credit, the 18% exception, composition scheme eligibility, service charge and delivery apps.
Read →5 Sept 2026 · 4 minA spreadsheet works fine for a while. Here’s how to tell when it’s actually costing you money every week.
Read →28 Aug 2026 · 4 minIt’s the single most common complaint about restaurant billing software -- and it’s almost never fraud. Here’s what’s actually going on.
Read →12 Aug 2026 · 5 minTwo returns, two different jobs -- here’s what each one actually covers, and why missing one quietly costs you input tax credit.
Read →Costing templates, compliance dates, and what we’re shipping.