For restaurants

Will tomorrow be profitable?

Forkcast turns your POS sales, the Indian calendar, and live supply signals into one number for tomorrow: forecast vs break-even. Then it generates the shopping list, the staffing plan, and the supply alerts — before you go to bed.

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The real problem

60–70% of Indian restaurants close in year one

The food is rarely the problem. The numbers are. Owners price by gut, order by memory, and discover bad months when the cash runs out. Forkcast fixes this with one daily loop.

Financial blindness

No break-even awareness. Food cost climbs from 30% to 48% over weeks. Owner notices at month-end, when the money's gone.

Demand guessing

Ordering by memory causes 20–30% food waste. No one connects Shravan to tomorrow's prep list. ₹18,000 of chicken — wasted.

Supply blindness

LPG runs out, onion prices triple, cooking oil doubles. No warning, no buffer plan. Three days of closure during a busy weekend.

What you get

Six panels, one daily question answered

Each panel is built from your POS data and India-specific signals. No spreadsheets, no manual mapping after onboarding.

Tomorrow's revenue forecast

POS sales + festivals + fasting days + weather + IPL → tomorrow's revenue with a confidence range.

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Break-even check

Tomorrow's forecast vs your daily break-even. One number tells you if tomorrow is profitable.

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Food cost % tracker

Real-time food cost %, weekly P&L, and food-cost-creep alerts before you lose a month.

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Menu engineering

Star, Plow Horse, Puzzle, Dog. Repricing recommendations on the dishes that bleed margin.

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Supply Watch

LPG, onion, oil, paneer, chicken — 2 to 7 days of advance warning when supply breaks.

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Daily shopping list

Tomorrow's exact ingredient quantities, derived from the forecast and your recipes.

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How it works

Three steps to never guessing again

Connect your POS

Plug in Petpooja directly (zero daily effort) or upload a CSV from UrbanPiper or Posist. Auto-detection maps your sales history in minutes.

Forkcast knows India

Festivals, fasting days, weather, salary cycles, IPL fixtures, and live mandi prices feed the model alongside your sales.

Daily brief, one tap

Each evening you get tomorrow's forecast, break-even check, shopping list, staffing plan, and any supply alerts — on the dashboard or WhatsApp.

A day in the life

Aarav's restaurant, before and after

40-seat non-veg casual dining on FC Road, Pune. ₹12L/month. Two years running. Same week repeating, every week.

Without Forkcast

7 AM — orders 'same as last week'. Doesn't know Shravan starts in 4 days. Non-veg drops 45%.
10:30 PM — counts ₹9,200. 'Decent day'. Break-even is ₹12,400. Today was a loss.
Month end — ₹12L revenue, food cost 41%, net ₹36,000 — he doesn't know this number.

With Forkcast

Previous evening — 'Tomorrow ₹16,800 (-44% Shravan). Break-even ₹12,400 ✅. Skip extra chicken. 4 staff.'
10:30 PM — ₹15,400 actual (forecast 92% accurate). Profit contribution ₹3,000 above break-even.
Month end — food cost 33%. Forkcast flagged twice at 37%. Net ₹1.44L. He sees the number daily.

Pricing

Pays for itself the first week it catches a food cost issue

Plans from ₹999/month. Catching food cost creep from 32% to 40% on ₹8L revenue saves ₹64,000 in a month — the plan costs ₹2,499. See full pricing →

FAQ

Restaurant owner FAQ

Does Forkcast work with my POS?

Forkcast integrates directly with Petpooja and accepts CSV exports from UrbanPiper and Posist (Restroworks). If your sales data lives in Excel, we have an auto-detect importer that handles most common layouts.

What's the smallest restaurant that benefits from Forkcast?

We've designed Starter for new outlets running ₹1.5L–₹8L/month. Even at this size, a single missed festival forecast or onion crisis can wipe a month's margin — Forkcast pays for itself the first time it catches one.

How is Forkcast different from a Petpooja or Posist dashboard?

Petpooja and Posist report yesterday — what you sold, what was billed. Forkcast advises on tomorrow — what to buy, how many cooks to schedule, which dishes to push. We sit on top of your POS, not in place of it.

Will it understand the Indian calendar?

Yes — that's the whole point. Forkcast's calendar engine knows Shravan, Navratri, Ekadashi, Eid, Ganesh Chaturthi, Onam, Pongal, Christmas, IPL match days, salary cycles, and wedding muhurat. Western forecasting tools have none of this.

What if I'm planning a restaurant and don't have POS data yet?

Use our free pre-launch tools at /start — break-even calculator, capital estimator, viability score, menu pricing with live mandi prices, and a state-by-state licence checklist. Once you open, we onboard you to Starter on day one.

Is my data safe?

Yes. Data is hosted on Vercel and Supabase with primary region in Mumbai. Encryption at rest and in transit. We don't share or sell data. Forkcast is fully aligned with India's DPDP Act, 2023.

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