Shaival Desai
Shaival is the Chief of Growth at Petpooja. Apart from jumping from one corridor conversation to another, you will always find curiously wandering about SaaS products, technology & food trends. Reach him at shaival.desai@petpooja.com.
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Inventory Turnover Ratio: Formula, Example and Real Targets
The inventory turnover ratio is your Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) divided by your average inventory for the same period. It tells you how many times you sold and replaced your stock. What makes the answer vary is not the maths. It is what you are storing. A hardware shop and a kitchen can run
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Cloud Kitchen Vs Dine-In Restaurants: What is The Future of The Retail F&B sector?
There has been quite some buzz about the future of the restaurant industry, especially in the current scenario. The pandemic has changed F&B retail’s approach towards business and is influencing them to revamp their traditional models to adapt to the new normal. Speaking of trends that became the silver lining during the pandemic, Cloud Kitchen
Basic Restaurant Management Tips That Will Help You Save Money
It might not seem so from the outside, but profit margins in the restaurant industry are very narrow. And so restaurateurs are always looking for ways to save money & increase their profit margins. More than 25-40% of costs are food costs. Add to it the labour costs, maintenance costs, marketing & branding costs, &
6 Restaurant Trends Of 2023 That Are Here For A Long Run
In the past few years, the Indian restaurant industry has gone through many ups & downs. A large part of the industry & its labor force suffered because of COVID-19. Many traditional restaurant trends & practices, which people assumed to be fool-proof tricks to success, fell flat on its face during the pandemic. Yet the
Provide Restaurant-like Dining Experiences To Your Customers At Their Homes
The pandemic has gotten everyone to try new things. Be it baking banana bread or marking Dalgona coffee, staying in has us doing anything to pass time & amuse ourselves. With the rise in Covid cases across the nation, people had to reluctantly switch to at-home dining or food delivery. Well, we can’t lie but
Things To Consider Before Finalizing The Design For Restaurant Menu
Every customer always is on the lookout for a place with unique & delicious food worth trying out. And do you know what is something they notice first about the outlet, the menu! A menu is the biggest marketing tool for any kind of food business. What they offer; the menu diversity; ingredients and most
Cook With Wine To Make Restaurant-like Meals At Home!
“Aged like a fine wine.” How many times have you heard this idiom before? If not anything else, the quote for sure has aged like a fine wine! But hold on for a moment. Why are we talking about wines here? Because as a catalyst, a glass of fine wine with your dining experience can
Tools to turn your restaurant’s regular Social Media into an extraordinary one!
Being a restaurant just doesn’t mean you cook fantastic food anymore. Sure, the mixture of spices and smell of herbs brought in the customers in olden times, but today along with the kitchen, social media has become an important room to make it work! Running along with the trend of social media is like sitting
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Experience Dine-in with FoodBOT (Robot) -The future of food-service
It’s 2021 and while the restaurant industry is far from its earliest incarnation, one thing that hasn’t changed is the constant drive towards greater efficiency. And efficiency requires innovation and that’s where the robots come in. The decreasing costs of hardware such as circuits and sensor boards and the real-time advancements in artificial intelligence software
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How to run a successful Cafe Business ?
Ah coffee, the sweet elixir of life. Love it or hate it, coffee has been and remains to be one of the most popular beverage choices among people. According to research estimates, people drink about an astonishing 2.5 billion cups of coffee a day! Add some trendy snacks to that and you’ve got yourself a
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How to Follow a Zero Contact Schedule in your Dine-in Restaurant?
The futuristic tomorrow is here much faster than any of us could have anticipated it to be. With the term, new normal getting older by the day and becoming a reality of life, restaurants are now preparing to change the way their diners eat out. With contactless becoming the new buzzword of our times, restaurants
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The Importance of POS Systems for Restaurant Management
With anything and everything on the tips of our fingers on our screens, why would the restaurant industry lag behind? It’s no secret that the key to the success of any restaurant operation is active management. Sometimes, for restaurants to singlehandedly ensure hassle-free, top-notch customer service, accurate inventory management, and sales tracking — elements vital
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5 Things to Keep In Mind While Starting a Cloud Kitchen
What is cloud kitchen and how does it work? A cloud kitchen is a delivery-only restaurant that has no physical space for dine-in. It relies entirely on online orders placed through online food aggregators or an online ordering-enabled website or mobile app. The flavour of the season, ‘cloud kitchens’ are the rising trend mixed with
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How to Make Your Restaurant Insta Famous
In a world where we’re obsessed with clicking and posting pictures of everything and anything we do, it’s not a surprise that Instagram has become a necessity for anyone wanting to be updated or relevant…or both! We’ve come a long way from using Instagram to post pictures of landscapes and our meals to entire businesses
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6 Best Restaurant Magazines For Every Restaurant Owner
If you are in the Restaurant business, you know that things evolve every other day. There is a constant change in food trends, technology, interiors, equipment, and whatnot! It has become increasingly difficult to keep up with it, and this is where restaurant magazines come in handy. But not to worry we at Petpooja believe in
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