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Hi there! I’m Simran Jain, and I am so happy that you are here. My favorite thing in life is time spent in the kitchen. And all the better with being able to share my experience with y'all. I love everything related to food and I am always writing or cooking.

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Importance Of A Good Kitchen Layout In Your Restaurant

When it comes to opening a restaurant, the kitchen layout and design are often overlooked in favour of purchasing, marketing and staff training. Rather than making the kitchen layout more effective, majority of the funds is spent on the front-line areas visible to the guests. But, as you may be aware, a proper kitchen plan

SJSimran Jain13 Mar 2026
Operations & Workflows

How To Open A Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) In India?

Who doesn’t love fast food?Fast food is loved and enjoyed by almost the whole metropolitan population, from children to college students, vegetarians, and non-vegetarians alike. One simply seeks opportunities to make an excuse and visit a fast food joint. These restaurants specialize in fast food cuisines such as pizza and burgers, as well as items

Operations & Workflows

Ultimate Buyer’s Guide For Restaurant Kitchen Equipment

When it comes to starting a restaurant, kitchen equipment requirement tops the list along with commercial space lease, licenses, permits, and marketing expenses. Investing in good equipment is the best thing you can do for your restaurant and your staff. Getting good affordable and efficient pieces of equipment will equip your servers, hosts, and kitchen

Operations & Workflows

Top 6 Must-Follow Rules For Kitchen Hygiene In Restaurant

If you own a restaurant, you’re probably well aware of the term ‘contamination‘. It is the worst nightmare of any restaurant owner. Contamination of food due to improper kitchen hygiene standards is a sackable offense in the food industry, thus you must do everything you can to avoid it. All food handlers are required by

Growth & Scaling

7 Restaurant Interior Design Ideas for Indian Owners (2026)

Your food could be outstanding. You could still lose repeat diners to a competitor with better interiors. A study in PLOS One found that atmospherics directly shape customer satisfaction in restaurants across emerging economies like India. How your space looks and feels decides whether someone comes back. Diners in well-designed spaces spend 12-20% more per

Operations & Workflows

How Can Fast Food Restaurants Attract More Customers?

Fast food restaurants have become a part of our everyday lives. They are present everywhere from metro stations, shopping malls to universities. Stepping into these sorts of restaurants is like entering a war zone- you are literally bombarded with so many different smells, bright colors, made-up burgers, snacks, and offers to upsize. Examples of such

Operations & Workflows

How To Open A Casual Dining Restaurant (CDR) In India?

There are various types of restaurant forms and formats such as Quick service restaurants, Fine-dine, Casual-dining, bakeries, etc. In this blog, we will be discussing India’s most popular restaurant format – Casual-Dining Restaurants. It is also the second-largest food service industry in India. Hence, let’s understand Casual-dining restaurants in detail. Did you know that the

Operations & Workflows11 min read

How to Do Influencer Marketing for Your Restaurant in 2026

To do influencer marketing for your restaurant, pick 3-5 micro food bloggers in your city (10K-50K followers), offer a complimentary meal plus ₹5,000-₹15,000 per reel, hand them a brief with 2-3 talking points about your signature dishes, and track walk-ins using a unique promo code. Most restaurant owners in India notice a bump in footfall

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Industry & Business Guides5 min read

What Is Influencer Marketing And Why You Should Do It?

Influencers, Who? Food brings people together! Nowadays influencers too….. Food has always had a symbolic meaning and served as a glue that brought people together. A hot meal bursting with savory flavors, combined with a welcoming atmosphere, served as a pillar of modern social life. Influencers are basically social media celebs who actively post about

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Operations & Workflows5 min read

How To Promote Your Cloud Kitchen?

As we all know, now is an exceptional time to enter the cloud kitchen business. With the entire Covid-19 situation and a shift in consumer behavior, an increasing number of customers prefer ordering from home. People are also willing to try new restaurants and cuisines. Cloud kitchen, unlike brick-and-mortar restaurants, does not have a physical

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Operations & Workflows4 min read

How Petpooja Helped Swati Snacks During Covid-19 Crisis?

It all started with a dream…. Swati Snacks, which began as a modest street-food eatery in 1963, is now a city favorite. Minakshi Jhaveri, a single mother in Mumbai, began selling sev-puri, bhelpuri, ragda pattice, and panipuri. She would send her kids to school and then quickly take a rickshaw along with her cook to

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How To Make Your Restaurant A Great Place To Work?

Nowadays stress has become a part of modern life. It is more like an unavoidable reality of life that is present everywhere. Similarly, working for a restaurant can be extremely challenging sometimes. Stress is so ingrained in a restaurant kitchen that destressing a kitchen is almost an oxymoron. Restaurant kitchen usually has a fast-paced and

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Industry & Business Guides4 min read

What Is Your New Year Restro-lution?

It is that time of the year again when you hit the refresh button and have a new start. A new year means new resolutions for yourself and your business. After the excitement and expenses of the holiday, customers usually disappear until Valentine’s Day, making January the best time for restaurateurs to make resolutions and implement

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Operations & Workflows11 min read

How to Set Up the FIFO Food Storage Method in 6 Steps

FIFO means first in, first out. The stock that arrived earliest gets used earliest, so nothing sits at the back of a shelf until it is no longer safe to serve. One rule makes it work: older stock goes at the front, new stock goes behind it. One rule overrides it: anything past its use-by

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Operations & Workflows5 min read

Hottest Food Trends To Look Out For In 2023

Part of what makes the F&B industry so exciting is that food trends are constantly changing here. The past year was the year of cloud kitchen and online food deliveries. We also saw unique hybrid types of outlets opening. Cafe bar, anyone? And the new year brings new trends with it! And if you are

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