The top cloud kitchens in India in 2026 are Rebel Foods, Curefoods, EatClub Brands, Biryani By Kilo and FreshMenu. Then Dil Foods, Kouzina Food Tech, Salad Days, House of Biryan and Charcoal Eats.
Rebel leads on revenue with ₹1,951.6 crore in FY26, and Curefoods follows at ₹916.2 crore. The ten below are ordered on the most recent revenue each has published, and each links to its own site and its source.
This category has consolidated since 2021, which is why this list is not the one you will find on older pages.
Key Takeaways
- Rebel Foods leads on revenue: ₹1,951.6 crore in FY26.
- Then Curefoods at ₹916.2 crore, with SEBI approval for an ₹800 crore IPO.
- Next EatClub Brands, which filed ₹749.5 crore in FY25.
- And Dil Foods rose 180% in FY25, the steepest of those reporting growth.
- Biryani By Kilo now sits inside Devyani International.
Top 10 Cloud Kitchens in India: 2026 Edition
The list is ranked on the latest revenue each company has published, as filed by September 2026. Each exact figure names its financial year. Two companies publish only a band, dated March 2025, and sit at its midpoint.
Biryani By Kilo is the one qualified entry. Devyani International, which now owns it, reports it inside the Sky Gate group rather than on its own, so the figure in the table covers three brands.
One caveat on the order. Curefoods sits above EatClub because it has filed FY26 and EatClub has not. On FY25, the only year both report, EatClub was marginally ahead at ₹749.5 crore against ₹745.8 crore.
| Company | Main brands | Operating revenue | Net loss, same year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebel Foods | Faasos, Behrouz Biryani, Oven Story Pizza, The Good Bowl, LunchBox, The Biryani Life | ₹1,951.6 crore (FY26) | ₹281.8 crore |
| Curefoods | EatFit, Sharief Bhai Biryani, OLIO, CakeZone, Krispy Kreme, Nomad Pizza, Frozen Bottle, Arambam | ₹916.2 crore (FY26) | ₹192.2 crore |
| EatClub Brands | Box8, Mojo Pizza, NH1 Bowls, Hola Pasta | ₹749.5 crore (FY25) | ₹14.6 crore |
| Biryani By Kilo | Biryani By Kilo, Goila Butter Chicken, The Bhojan | ₹277 crore (FY25, Sky Gate group) | Not disclosed |
| FreshMenu | FreshMenu | ₹125.8 crore (FY25) | ₹7.5 crore |
| Dil Foods | Virtual brands for partner kitchens | ₹89.6 crore (FY25) | Not disclosed |
| Kouzina Food Tech | The Bowl Company, Homely, Soul Rasa, Istah (licensed) | ₹50 to 100 crore (Mar 2025) | Not disclosed |
| Salad Days | Salad Days | ₹50 to 100 crore (Mar 2025) | Not disclosed |
| House of Biryan | House of Biryan | ₹25.7 crore (FY25) | Not disclosed |
| Charcoal Eats | Charcoal Eats | ₹25.5 crore (FY24) | Not disclosed |
All ten are worked through below, in the order of the table above.
1. Rebel Foods
Rebel Foods is the largest cloud kitchen company in India by revenue. Operating revenue reached ₹1,951.6 crore in FY26, up 21% from ₹1,617.4 crore. Its net loss narrowed 16% to ₹281.8 crore.
The Mumbai company did not start as a cloud kitchen at all. It began in 2011 as Faasos, a restaurant chain that took orders online. Its first delivery-only kitchen opened in 2015, and it closed the dine-in side in 2016.
Faasos now sits alongside Behrouz Biryani, Oven Story Pizza, The Good Bowl, LunchBox and The Biryani Life. On the same filing, India brought in 85.5% of FY26 revenue, and revenue from the rest of the world grew 39% to ₹283.8 crore.
What makes Rebel worth studying is not the brand count. It is that several of those menus are cooked in one kitchen, from overlapping ingredients. We pulled that model apart in our Rebel Foods cloud kitchen playbook.
2. Curefoods
Curefoods grew revenue 23% to ₹916.2 crore in FY26, from ₹745.8 crore in FY25. Its net loss was ₹192.2 crore for the year.
The brand list is long: EatFit, Sharief Bhai Biryani, OLIO, Arambam, Krispy Kreme, Nomad Pizza, CakeZone and Frozen Bottle. Several of those brands were bought rather than built.
Curefoods is also moving beyond a pure delivery model. The same filing puts it at 281 cloud kitchens, 99 kiosks and 122 restaurants, so more than two in every five of its outlets now have a counter a customer can walk up to.
Operators we work with who run delivery and a counter side by side tell us they keep two menus, because the two sell at different hours.
Entrackr reports the same company holds SEBI approval for an ₹800 crore public issue, filed in October 2025, and has since put the listing on hold in volatile markets.
3. EatClub Brands
EatClub Brands is the third of the three largest here, and on the numbers one of the most interesting. Revenue was ₹749.5 crore in FY25, up 45.4% from ₹515.5 crore, on a net loss of ₹14.6 crore.
Against that revenue it is a small loss, and the smallest ratio of the four companies here that report one.
EatClub runs Box8, Mojo Pizza, NH1 Bowls and Hola Pasta. It has stayed with a shorter brand list than either company above it.
4. Biryani By Kilo
Biryani By Kilo still cooks dum biryani to order in sealed earthen pots. What has changed is who owns it.
Devyani International runs KFC, Pizza Hut and Costa Coffee in India.
In April 2025 it agreed to buy 80.72% of parent Sky Gate Hospitality for ₹419.6 crore. It bought out the rest for ₹57.5 crore, taking Sky Gate to a wholly owned subsidiary as of February 2026.
Sky Gate holds Biryani By Kilo, Goila Butter Chicken and The Bhojan, and ran over 100 outlets across 40 cities at the time of the deal, on unaudited FY25 revenue of ₹277 crore. That figure covers the group rather than Biryani By Kilo alone, which is why the brand has no bar in the chart above.
So Biryani By Kilo now sits inside a listed group rather than standing alone. That matters if you are studying it as a model, because its funding comes from a listed parent rather than from venture investors.
5. FreshMenu
FreshMenu was founded in Bengaluru in 2014 and built its name on a chef-led menu that changed regularly instead of a fixed card.
Revenue was ₹125.8 crore in FY25, against ₹124.7 crore in FY24, and the loss narrowed by 6% to ₹7.5 crore.
It is the longest-running delivery-only brand on this list still trading under its own name, and holding revenue while narrowing the loss is a different goal from the growth the larger names are chasing.
Petpooja is India’s biggest and most price effective restaurant POS, behind the success of 1,00,000+ outlets. It has run restaurant billing for 14+ years, and the outlets on it push 60 lakh bills through a day at 0% processing errors.
6. Dil Foods
Dil Foods posted the steepest revenue rise of any company here that reports one. Revenue reached ₹89.6 crore in FY25, up about 180% on the year before.
The Bengaluru company, founded in 2022, runs a different model from the rest. Rather than build its own kitchens, it puts its virtual brands into kitchens that restaurants already run, so a partner outlet cooks Dil Foods menus alongside its own.
That keeps the capital light, and it is why the revenue line has moved so quickly from a standing start.
7. Kouzina Food Tech
Kouzina Food Tech was founded in Bengaluru in 2019 and has raised about $6 million. Tracxn puts its annual revenue between ₹50 crore and ₹100 crore as at March 2025.
It builds and runs multiple food brands, each with its own menu and identity. In May 2025 it took an exclusive licence from Swiggy to run and grow four of its brands: The Bowl Company, Homely, Soul Rasa and Istah. Swiggy transfers ownership once agreed conditions are met.
Kouzina is a name that shows up on other rankings of this category too, which is worth knowing if you are comparing lists.
8. Salad Days
Salad Days is the health-led entry, and the oldest of the newer names here. It was founded in Gurugram in 2014, and Tracxn puts its annual revenue in the ₹50 crore to ₹100 crore band as at March 2025.
The menu is built around salads, bowls and wraps rather than the biryani and pizza that dominate the rest of this list. That is a narrower audience, and it has held it since 2014.
9. House of Biryan
House of Biryan is one of the two youngest companies here. Revenue reached ₹25.7 crore in FY25, up about 135% on the year before, and it has raised $5.6 million since starting in Mumbai in 2022.
The menu is regional biryanis, with other Indian dishes added since. It is a reminder that a single-cuisine kitchen is still a route into this market, and that not every operator needs a portfolio of them to make the model work.
10. Charcoal Eats
Charcoal Eats has been running out of Mumbai since 2015 and has raised $8.53 million across five rounds. Revenue was ₹25.5 crore in FY24, up 22.6% on the year before.
The menu is biryani, kebabs, rolls and desserts, and it has broadened into other regional specialities.
Cloud Kitchen Industry Growth and Market Size in India: 2026
IMARC Group puts the India cloud kitchen market at about USD 1.39 billion in 2026. It forecasts USD 3.69 billion by 2034.
Treat that as one research firm’s estimate, not a measured figure. Research firms size this market differently. Some count only the kitchens. Others count every order placed, so the trend is worth more than the exact figure.
The gap worth noticing is between the market and the companies in it. The market keeps growing fast. The four operators here that report a bottom line are all still spending ahead of it.
Growth is not the constraint here. What each order is left with after costs is. Our piece on where cloud kitchens lose money works through what a healthy delivery profit and loss account looks like.
How Do Top Cloud Kitchens Stay Ahead?
Four habits show up again and again in the operators above, whatever their size.
They run several brands off one kitchen. One prep line and one cold room carry three or four menus instead of one. The rent and the chef are then paid for by more orders. It is the clearest cost advantage in the model, and the one Rebel built its business on. It does not follow that more brands is always better. The count only helps where the menus genuinely share a prep line.
They treat commission as a menu problem. The delivery apps take a cut of every order, and at the volumes most kitchens run it cannot be argued down. It comes off the top, before a single ingredient is paid for.
So the big brands build the menu around it. The dishes that last on a delivery listing are the ones with a food cost ratio low enough to carry that cut.
Take a kitchen billing ₹4,50,000 a month, as an example. Moving its food cost ratio by two points is worth ₹9,000 every month, without selling one extra order. Restaurants we work with on Petpooja tell us the dishes built that way from day one are the ones still listed a year later.
They know their prep times to the minute. Delivery ratings turn as much on how long food sits before pickup as on how good it is.
A kitchen display system replaces the paper kitchen order ticket (KOT). It puts a clock on every order, so a delay shows up while it is still happening.
They close brands quickly. A cloud kitchen brand costs little to switch off, which is the flip side of costing little to launch. Holding on to one that is not working costs more than shutting it.
Conclusion
The honest reading of this list is that the category is still buying growth. Each of the four companies here that reports a bottom line is investing ahead of profit, which is normal for a market IMARC expects to more than double by 2034.
The spread is what makes it interesting. The ten run from about ₹25 crore of revenue to nearly ₹2,000 crore, and between them they cover biryani, pizza, bowls, desserts and daily meals.
For anyone building in this category, that points somewhere specific. Kitchen counts and brand counts are the easy numbers to grow and the wrong ones to chase.
The operators worth copying are the ones whose second kitchen costs less to run than their first. You only know that if your billing, stock and prep numbers sit in one place.
Our guide to starting a cloud kitchen covers the setup costs and the licences before any of this applies. If the kitchen is already open, start instead with increasing online orders.
FAQs
Rebel Foods is the largest company, with ₹1,951.6 crore of operating revenue in FY26. Its best known brands are Faasos and Behrouz Biryani, alongside Oven Story Pizza, The Good Bowl, LunchBox and The Biryani Life. Curefoods is second at ₹916.2 crore.
It depends on how you count. Rebel Foods is the biggest by revenue at ₹1,951.6 crore in FY26. Dil Foods rose fastest of those reporting growth, up 180% to ₹89.6 crore in FY25. EatClub Brands filed the smallest loss against revenue of the four that report one.
Not yet at the top of the market. Of the ten companies on this list, four report a bottom line, and all four posted a loss in their most recent year. The other six do not disclose one. Smaller single-brand kitchens can run profitably, because they carry no head office and no brand-building spend. Plenty still close. Our piece on why cloud kitchens shut down sets out what usually goes wrong.
IMARC Group estimates the India cloud kitchen market at about USD 1.39 billion in 2026, reaching USD 3.69 billion by 2034. Estimates from different research firms vary widely, so treat the trend as the useful part rather than the exact figure.
A cloud kitchen, also called a ghost kitchen, is a delivery-only food business with no dine-in area. Orders arrive through delivery apps or the brand’s own channels, which lets the operator pay for kitchen space instead of a high street frontage. Most of the big operators now mix these with counters and restaurants. Our glossary entry goes into the model in more detail.
Yes. A cloud kitchen is a food business, so it needs the same licence as any restaurant. That means a Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) registration or licence, and your turnover decides the tier. Our guide to the FSSAI licence for cloud kitchens lists the documents and the fees.
Rebel Foods is the one that publishes open terms. Its franchise programme covers Faasos, Behrouz Biryani, The Good Bowl, LunchBox and The Biryani Life. You own the outlet and you run it. Oven Story Pizza is offered as a physical store instead. For the other nine, ask the company directly, which for Biryani By Kilo means Devyani International.
