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Restaurant Profitability & Growth Consulting · Bangalore

Your restaurant is
making money.
Just not where
you think.

We spent 8+ years inside Zomato and Swiggy, growing hundreds of restaurant partners across India. Now we run the same playbook for you — line by line, item by item, until every rupee is accounted for.

No retainer to start · First audit call is free · 45 minutes

Where the money wentTypical 1-outlet café
Monthly sales₹18,00,000
Food cost — 34%−₹6,12,000
Rent & utilities−₹2,90,000
Salaries−₹3,40,000
Aggregator commission — 24%−₹2,59,200
Packaging & discounts−₹1,44,000
Unmeasured wastage−₹74,000
Net profit₹80,800
That's 4.5% net margin on ₹18L of sales. The owner thought it was 14%. The gap sits in three lines nobody was measuring.
0Years inside Zomato & Swiggy
0Restaurant partners handled
0Avg. net margin lift
0Audit to final report
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What we do

Eight services.
One P&L.

Most firms sell you one lever. We work every lever that touches your margin — and we do them in the order that pays back fastest. Marketing runs last, not first, because spending on a menu that doesn't earn just loses money faster.

01 / START HERE

Restaurant Profitability Audit

A forensic read of your P&L, POS data and aggregator dashboards. We find the leaks, size them in rupees, and rank them by how fast they can be fixed.

  • Food cost
  • Contribution margin
  • Labour
  • Commission analysis
  • Leakage
Full profitability report →
02

Menu Engineering

Every item plotted by profit and popularity. We rebuild the menu around what actually earns — pricing, placement, combos, and the items that quietly need to go.

  • Item costing
  • Pricing
  • Combo design
  • Menu psychology
See the matrix →
03

Swiggy & Zomato Growth

We ran the other side of this table for eight years. Ranking, ads, offers, ratings, images, conversion — optimised for profit per order, not gross order value.

  • Ranking
  • Ads
  • Ratings
  • Conversion
  • Repeat rate
Platform playbook →
04

Digital Marketing That Drives Orders

No vanity metrics. Performance ads, local SEO, content and retention campaigns, all measured against cost per acquired customer and contribution margin.

  • Meta & Google ads
  • Local SEO
  • Content & reels
  • WhatsApp CRM
  • ROAS
Grow my restaurant →
05

Restaurant Dashboard

One screen for revenue, contribution margin, food cost, inventory, dead items, waste and repeat customers. Updated daily, readable in ninety seconds.

  • Live P&L
  • Item-level margin
  • Waste
  • Cohorts
Request a demo →
06

SOP Development

Written operating systems for kitchen, inventory, purchasing, staff and service — so quality holds when you're not in the building.

  • Kitchen
  • Purchasing
  • Checklists
  • Quality control
Build my systems →
07

Expansion Consulting

Unit economics before bricks. Financial models, kitchen design, hiring plans and standardisation for outlet two and everything after it.

  • Unit economics
  • Kitchen design
  • Hiring
  • Standardisation
Plan the next outlet →
08

AI for Restaurants

Demand forecasting, inventory prediction, automated cost alerts and written weekly insights — practical models on your own data, not a chatbot.

  • Forecasting
  • Inventory prediction
  • Auto reports
See what's possible →

Not sure which one you need?

Almost everyone starts with the audit. It tells us — and you — what's actually worth fixing first.

Start with the audit →
Why Syft & Co.

We've sat on the other side of the table.

Eight years managing restaurant growth inside India's largest delivery platforms. We know how ranking really works, what commission structures actually cost you, and which levers move a P&L in thirty days.

01

Operators, not advisors

We work like an external growth team, not a deck factory. Recommendations come with an owner, a deadline and a rupee value.

02

Every number is defensible

No industry benchmarks pasted from the internet. Every figure in your report is traced back to your own POS, invoices and aggregator data.

03

Aggregator fluency

Commission slabs, ad auctions, ranking signals, offer economics. We negotiated and managed these for hundreds of partners.

04

Operations and marketing under one roof

Most agencies market a broken menu. We fix the economics first, then spend — so growth compounds instead of leaking.

05

You keep the system

Dashboards, SOPs and costing sheets stay yours. If we've done the job right, you need us less each quarter.

How an engagement runs

From data handover to a fixed P&L in seven days.

DAY 1

Data handover

POS exports, purchase invoices, aggregator dashboards, payroll and rent. One call to walk through the kitchen and the numbers.

DAYS 2–6

Forensic audit

Item-level costing, contribution margin, commission analysis and leakage. Everything sized in rupees per month.

DAY 7

Report & decisions

A ranked action list — highest return, fastest payback first. We present it to you and to your team.

ONGOING

Execution

We implement alongside your team: new menu, pricing, SOPs, platform strategy, marketing. Reviewed monthly against the dashboard.

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Free. We'll WhatsApp your numbers plus the three lines we'd check first.

Indicative only. A full audit also measures wastage, discount load, item-level margin and inventory leakage.

Case studies

Same kitchen. Same rent. Different P&L.

Cloud kitchen · 3 brands · Bengaluru

Cut food cost 6.4 points without changing a single recipe

Net margin before3.1%
After 4 months11.8%

Re-costed 84 SKUs, renegotiated three vendor contracts, removed 19 loss-making items and rebuilt combo pricing around contribution margin.

Café · 2 outlets · Pune

Delivery revenue up 71% while discount spend fell

Monthly orders2,140
After 5 months3,660

Rebuilt Zomato and Swiggy listings around search intent, replaced blanket discounts with threshold offers, and fixed image and description conversion.

QSR chain · 7 outlets · Hyderabad

Found ₹9.4L a year sitting in inventory leakage

Wastage7.2%
After SOPs2.1%

Daily variance tracking, purchase SOPs, portion standardisation and a shared dashboard the outlet managers actually check every morning.

We'd been profitable on paper for two years. Syft showed us we were losing ₹1.4 lakh a month on eleven items and one commission slab. The audit paid for itself in the first fortnight.
Owner · 4-outlet café group · Bengaluru
About Syft & Co.

Every restaurant should know exactly where its money is made.

Syft & Co. is a restaurant growth consulting firm based in Bangalore. Our expertise comes from 8+ years working inside India's largest food delivery companies, managing restaurant growth across multiple cities and hundreds of partners.

We saw the same pattern everywhere: excellent food, committed owners, and a P&L nobody could read. The recipes were never the problem. The economics were.

Independent restaurantsMulti-outlet groupsCafésCloud kitchensQSR chainsFine diningInvestors & acquirers
2016First platform role — Zomato
2019City growth lead — Swiggy
2022500th restaurant partner
2024Syft & Co. founded

What we believe

Data over instinct. Margin over revenue. Systems over heroics. And no recommendation leaves this office without a rupee value attached to it.

FAQ

Questions owners ask.

An agency starts with your Instagram. We start with your P&L. If your contribution margin is broken, every rupee of ad spend loses money faster — so marketing is the last thing we turn on, not the first. Once the economics work, we run performance marketing, local SEO and retention campaigns in-house.

POS exports for the last three months, purchase invoices, your aggregator dashboards, payroll and fixed cost figures. If some of it doesn't exist yet, that's a finding in itself — and we'll help you set up the tracking.

The audit takes seven days. Menu and pricing changes typically show up in margin within the first month. Platform and marketing work compounds over three to six months. Operational SOPs take a quarter to hold.

Yes — most of our clients start as one outlet. Single-outlet businesses often have the most recoverable margin, because nobody has ever costed the menu line by line.

No. We work on a fixed audit fee and an optional monthly retainer for execution. You keep every rupee we help you recover.

Always. We sign an NDA before any data changes hands, and case studies are published anonymised unless a client explicitly agrees otherwise.

Let's find your missing margin.

A free 45-minute call. Bring one month of numbers and we'll tell you, on the call, where we'd look first.

hello@syftandco.in  ·  +91 81238 24773  ·  Indiranagar, Bengaluru

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