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22 Small Business Ideas in India: Costs and Licences
What small business can you start in India? This list gives you 22 shop and service businesses. By our estimate, nine open for under ₹5 lakh and five need ₹10 lakh to ₹20 lakh. Most are shops or simple services that small Indian business owners can run themselves. Which idea suits you comes down to
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rakshit acharya30 Oct 2026
How to Create a Restaurant Business Plan in 9 Steps
How do you create a restaurant business plan? You build it in 9 steps, starting with your concept and ending with how much money you need. Each step answers a question you, or anyone funding you, will ask. A strong plan is not a long one. It is one where the costs come from real
How to Create a Tea Stall Business Plan in 6 Steps
How do you create a tea stall business plan? You build it in 6 steps, from choosing your stall and spot to working out how many cups you must sell to cover your costs. For a small stall, the plan does not need to be long. What decides whether the plan works is the cost
Restaurant Banner Design: 8 Ideas and Printing Costs
Looking for restaurant banner design ideas? Eight designs cover what most Indian outlets need, and each one does a different job. They are the hero dish, price, festival, thali or combo, new dish, grand opening, scan-to-order and time-slot banners. Which one you need depends on what you want people to do: walk in now, try
How to Increase Restaurant Sales During Uttarayan
How do you increase restaurant sales during Uttarayan, Gujarat’s kite festival and its name for Makar Sankranti? Sell to the terrace, not the dining room, and take undhiyu pre-orders by the kilo. Sell combos and party food packs for kite flying. Win bulk orders from housing societies. The timing matters because people start looking early.
How to Increase Restaurant Sales During Lohri
How do you increase restaurant sales during Lohri, the Punjabi winter festival of the bonfire? Book the parties early, starting with first Lohri parties held for a new baby or a new bride. Host a bonfire night with a set menu, and sell gajak and rewari, the sesame and jaggery sweets of the season. What
How to Increase Restaurant Sales During Pongal: A 4-Day Plan
How do you increase restaurant sales during Pongal? Give guests a festive reason to come in. Sell a Pongal meal built around Sakkarai Pongal, take pre-orders for family packs, and book tables for the last day. Price each one to add to the bill, not to cut it. This is not a Tamil Nadu sale
100 Restaurant Name Ideas by Cuisine, Outlet and Trend
Looking for restaurant name ideas for 2026-27? The 100 below are grouped by outlet type, cuisine and trend, and each one comes with a short reason it works. A good name hints at your food or your feel, is easy to say and spell, and is not already someone else’s trademark. What makes a name
Avani Joshi
How to Get Found for Navratri Thali Near Me Searches
How does a restaurant show up when a guest searches “navratri thali near me”? Google picks the results partly on how well your Google Business Profile matches the search. So start with a vrat dish on your profile, named the way guests search. Correct festive hours and good reviews help too. Guests search this way
Avani Joshi
8 Ways to Increase Retail Sales This Festive Season 2026
How do you increase retail sales this festive season? You get ready before the rush, not during it. That means having your stock, counters and prices set before the first busy weekend between Navratri and Diwali. The reason is timing. Retailers tell us festive buying bunches up on a handful of heavy days. On those
rakshit acharya
16 Navratri Special Menu Ideas for Restaurants in 2026
What should a Navratri special menu for restaurants include? It needs a short vrat (fasting) section, made from the ingredients fasting guests eat and cooked with no onion or garlic. It also needs a kitchen that keeps those dishes apart from the rest of the menu. Whether it sells comes down to two things. Fasting
rakshit acharya
Diwali Offers: 5 Ways to Increase Restaurant Sales in 2026
How do you increase restaurant sales with Diwali offers? Use offers that add to the bill rather than take money off it. Five offers do this well: a festive combo, a free sweet on bigger bills, a pre-booked set menu, gift vouchers and offers sent only to your regulars. The first four add value instead
Nisarg Kansara
Diwali Menu Ideas for Restaurants: 7 Ways to Boost Festive Sales in 2026
What are the best Diwali menu ideas for restaurants? Not a new menu, but a few festive changes to the one you already have. Add a short Diwali specials section and a thali or combo. Put sweets in front of every guest. Then make the menu easy to see and order from in a rush.
Nisarg Kansara
Why Jaipur Is India’s Next Big Food Business Opportunity
Jaipur gives a food brand something most cities cannot: metro-scale footfall on a tier-2 cost base. The state economy behind it is projected to grow 16.7% in nominal terms this year. Rajasthan also draws 17.9 crore domestic visitors a year, and Jaipur sits at the head of that circuit. What decides whether that works for
Hardik Gandhi
Franchise Conclave Jaipur 2026: 3 and 4 October
Franchise Conclave Jaipur runs on 3 and 4 October 2026 at the Rajasthan International Centre, Jhalana Doongri, on JLN Marg. Doors open at 10:00 AM on both days. It is Rajasthan’s first dedicated food and beverage franchise forum. Every stall on the floor is an F&B brand. Every visitor registered as a franchise seeker rather
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