Format × City
Open a Café in Mumbai
Coffee + small-plate menu, social workspace draw, 20-60 seats.
The Café × Mumbai numbers
Total capex
₹44.91 L
Monthly fixed OPEX
₹3.6 L
Total funding needed
₹56 L
QSR prime rent
₹180–420/sqft
Working capital
₹5.39 L
Based on Forkcast capex dataset (200+ Indian restaurant openings 2023-2026), with T1-tier rent and labour adjustments.
Capex breakdown
| Line | Range (₹ L) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen equipment | 6.94 | Ranges, refrigeration, exhaust, dishwasher, prep, dry storage. |
| Interiors & furniture | 8.03 | Fit-out, false ceiling, lighting, seating, signage. |
| Property deposit | 20.4 | Typically 4–12 months of rent depending on format and location. |
| Licences & approvals | 1.67 | FSSAI, GST, fire NOC, trade licence, signage — state-specific. |
| POS & tech | 0.4 | Petpooja / UrbanPiper hardware + first-year software. |
| Branding & pre-launch marketing | 1.53 | Logo, menu design, soft-launch ads, influencer seeding. |
| Pre-opening inventory | 0.55 | Dry storage, proteins, and opening-week ingredient stock. |
| Working capital (30–45 days) | 5.39 | Bridge aggregator T+7–14 settlement vs vendor cash terms. |
Next steps
Use the free tools to go deeper on the Café × Mumbai setup:
- Full capital estimator for Mumbai - toggle formats, edit size
- Mumbai cuisine demand heatmap - pick the cuisine before the format
- Viability score - Café × your cuisine × Mumbai
- Licence checklist for maharashtra
- 90-day survival playbook
FAQ
Common questions
Related reading
- pre launchCost to open a café in Mumbai and Bengaluru (2026)A café costs less than a full-service restaurant but the capex spread is still wide — ₹28L in a Bengaluru suburb vs ₹55L on Mumbai's Linking Road for the same concept. Here is the line-by-line breakdown for both cities in 2026.
- pre launchCost to open a restaurant in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, KochiTier-2 city restaurant capex runs 40-60% below Mumbai for the same format — but the savings are mostly rent and deposit, not equipment. Here is the 2026 line-by-line for Ahmedabad, Jaipur, and Kochi.
- pre launchHow much does it cost to open a cloud kitchen in India in 2026?Cloud kitchen capex is quoted as '₹10-15 lakh' in pitch decks. The real number for a single-brand, aggregator-first kitchen in a tier-1 city is ₹12-22 lakh all-in — if you don't forget packaging inventory, aggregator onboarding, and 45 days of working capital.
- pre launchFire NOC for restaurants: cost and timeline by stateFire NOC is the licence that blocks everything else — no Trade Licence, no aggregator listing, no opening without it. Cost and timeline vary sharply by state and premises size. Here is the 2026 breakdown and the filing sequence that avoids a 60-day delay.