The short plan for Franchise Conclave Jaipur, on 3 and 4 October 2026, is this. Use Saturday to walk every category once. Use Sunday to go back to the four or five brands worth a second conversation. Keep the 2 o’clock slot on either day in mind, because that is the one fixed item on the timetable.
That works because of how the event is built. There is no stage, no MC and no panel programme. Nothing on the floor competes with anything else for your attention, so the only thing you are managing is your own time.
This post sets out the timetable, a plan for three hours, half a day and both days, and when the floor is at its busiest.
Key Takeaways
- The floor is the whole event. With no sessions to catch, a brand you want to meet is never busy somewhere else.
- The 2 o’clock B2B matchmaking slot is the only fixed item on either day. Everything else is the floor.
- Eight categories and 40+ stalls. Walking them in category order beats wandering, because it stops you comparing a dessert brand against a QSR.
What Does the Franchise Conclave Jaipur Timetable Look Like?
Both days run from 10 in the morning, but they open differently, and that difference decides how you use them. Saturday starts with registration and puts you on the floor at 11. Sunday puts you on the floor at 10 and adds demos and tastings at noon.
Saturday 3 October
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Registration and badge collection opens |
| 11:00 | Exhibition floor opens |
| 14:00 | B2B matchmaking |
| 18:00 | Floor closes |
Sunday 4 October
| Time | What happens |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Exhibition floor opens |
| 12:00 | Demos and tastings |
| 14:00 | B2B matchmaking |
| 17:00 | Forum closes |
Two things follow from that table. Both days give you seven hours on the floor, so neither is the short one. But Sunday ends an hour earlier, so a plan that saves the serious conversations for Sunday evening runs out of room.
How Much Time Do You Need at Franchise Conclave Jaipur?
It depends on what you are coming for, and the honest answer ranges from three hours to the full two days. Pick the band that matches your stage rather than trying to do all of it. Plan for a busy floor. The first edition, in Ahmedabad in June 2026, drew 9,000+ investors according to the event’s own site.
If You Have Two to Three Hours
Come Sunday, when the floor opens at 10 rather than 11 and you start an hour earlier. Walk the categories you have already shortlisted, skip the rest, and aim to have three real conversations rather than twelve short ones. You will not see the whole floor, and that is the correct trade.
If You Have Half a Day
Come Saturday at 11 and stay through matchmaking at 2. That gives you three hours to walk all eight categories at a steady pace, then a structured block to meet the brands you flagged. This is the band most first-time investors need.
If You Have Both Days
Saturday is your sweep: every category, notes on each, no decisions. Sunday is your shortlist. Back to four or five brands, the questions that matter, and the demos at noon to see a format running. Two days is what it takes to leave with something you can act on rather than a bag of brochures.
Whichever band you pick, the shape is the same: cover first, then go back. What changes is how much you can afford to go back to.
How Do You Work the Floor at Franchise Conclave Jaipur?
You walk it in category order, and you do it once before you talk to anybody properly. This is an exhibition-only floor with no stage, so it removes the usual expo problem of missing a brand while you sit in a session. It replaces it with a different one: nothing tells you when to move on.
Three habits make the difference on a floor like this one.
- Do a full lap before your first real conversation. Forty-plus stalls is roughly forty minutes at walking pace. Doing that lap first means your third conversation is as informed as your tenth.
- Stay inside one category at a time. The eight categories are grouped, and comparing a dessert brand against a QSR tells you nothing. Comparing two dessert brands tells you a great deal.
- Write the number, not the impression. Whatever a brand tells you about setup cost, staffing or its expected food cost ratio, write it down at the stall. By stall fifteen the conversations blur. The one you remember best is rarely the best one. Those figures are what you will measure against later, once the outlet is open and billing through a restaurant POS.
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Which Categories are at Franchise Conclave Jaipur?
Eight, and knowing them in advance is what lets you plan a route instead of a wander. The floor is curated to F&B only, so every stall on it is a food or beverage brand.
- QSR
- Café and tea
- Cloud kitchen
- Fine dine
- Desserts
- Bakery
- Ice cream
- Beverages
We have listed a selection of confirmed brands below to help you plan. Check the event page for the full and latest line-up. That page covers what the event is, who exhibits and how to register. This one is about what to do once you are inside.
In the QSR and quick-format space, those confirmed include Jumbo King, La Pino’z, Burger Monk, 34 Chowringhee Lane, Mr Sandwich and UBoat Gourmet Subs. On the ice cream side there are Vadilal, Bombay Kulfi and Desi Mastaani Matka Kulfi.
When is Franchise Conclave Jaipur at its Busiest?
Sunday’s midday window, across both the food court and the floor. That is the one crowd point the organiser names, and it is worth planning around rather than walking into.
The rest of the timetable is steadier than most expos, because the format has no sessions. Nothing empties the hall and refills it, so the floor does not swing between packed and deserted.
| Window | What is happening | Best used for |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday 11:00 | The floor opens, an hour after registration | Your first full lap, before the day fills |
| Both days, 14:00 | The B2B matchmaking slot | Meeting the brands you flagged on your lap |
| Sunday 12:00 to 13:00 | The busiest window of the two days | Tastings, if that is what you came for |
| Sunday after 16:00 | The last hour before a 17:00 close | Final questions and exchanging details |
The matchmaking block is the one scheduled item on either day. It is a meeting slot between investors and brands rather than a session anybody watches, so nothing runs on a stage against it and the floor carries on.
What About the Food Court?
It sits at the far end of the hall at the Rajasthan International Centre, Jhalana Doongri, and it is the only zone on the floor where selling is permitted. That makes it more useful than it sounds, because it is the one place you can taste a product rather than hear about it described.
Time your visit to it for Saturday if you want it quiet. On Sunday it fills at the same time as everything else, and the tastings land in that window too.
Use it as a break between categories rather than at the end. A twenty-minute stop halfway through your lap is the natural point to read back your notes. The early conversations are still fresh, and the later ones have not blurred them yet.
Conclusion
The plan comes down to three decisions. Walk the whole floor once before you talk seriously to anyone. Use the 2 o’clock matchmaking slot for the brands you are serious about. Go back on Sunday to the brands that survived Saturday.
If you only have a few hours, come Sunday morning and cut the list rather than the depth. Depth is what you came for; coverage is what a brochure gives you.
What to carry with you and which questions to ask at each stall are covered in our franchise investor guide. If you are weighing a stall rather than a visit, the exhibitor case sets out when one is worth booking.
And the numbers you write down at those stalls are only worth taking if something checks them later. That is the job a restaurant POS does once an outlet is open.
Frequently Asked Questions
Register in advance on the event site. Visitor passes are approved rather than issued on the spot, and the floor is built around verified franchise seekers rather than walk-ins. Registration and badge collection at the venue opens at 10 on Saturday, an hour before the floor.
You can, and most conversations happen at the stalls themselves. The matchmaking block is one route rather than the only one, so use it for the brands where you want uninterrupted time.
Yes, and Sunday is the better single day for that. The floor opens an hour earlier, the demos let you watch a format run, and you are not spending your first hour orienting yourself.
The numbers a brand quotes you on setup, staffing and supply, written down at the stall rather than recalled afterwards. Our franchise operations manual template shows the shape of the document a serious franchisor should be able to hand over.
Run your own numbers first, so you are comparing brands against a budget rather than against each other. Our restaurant franchise cost calculator puts the fee, the fit-out and the working capital in one place.
