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Starting a restaurant
Bengaluru split into five corporations in 2025, enforces a Kannada signboard rule, and has frozen new bar licences since 1992. Here is what a new restaurant needs.
New formats
A café bar concept sells coffee in the morning and drinks at night from one lease. The money is made or lost in the changeover, not in the menu.
Menu, food & drink
A bar's profit margin is set by three numbers: pour cost, par levels and variance. Here are the formulas, a worked example and a weekly routine that finds the leaks.
Menu, food & drink
Venues now commonly offer something alcohol-free. Few offer something worth ordering. Here is how to build a non-alcoholic drinks menu with the same care as the wine list.
