The Piatto Pro Blog
Guides on POS, GST & VAT, inventory and running a restaurant or business, written to be genuinely useful.
Retail · Featured
Barcode Billing for Retail, How It Works and Why It Pays Off
How barcode billing speeds up your retail counter, cuts pricing errors, and keeps stock accurate automatically. What you need to start, and how variants and weighed goods fit in.
12 Jul 2026 · Piatto Pro Team
Restaurant
How to Reduce Table Turnaround Time (Without Rushing Guests)
Faster table turns mean more covers a night, without making anyone feel hurried. Practical ways to speed service, QR ordering, table-side billing, kitchen routing, and reading your own peak-hour data.
11 Jul 2026
GST & Tax
GST Composition Scheme, Is It Right for Your Small Business?
The composition scheme lets small businesses pay GST at a low flat rate with simpler returns, but you can't charge GST to customers or claim input credit. Here's who qualifies and the trade-offs.
10 Jul 2026
Restaurant
What Is a KOT (Kitchen Order Ticket) and Why It Matters
A KOT is the instruction that tells your kitchen what to cook. Here's how KOTs work, why they cut errors and speed up service, and how digital KOTs and a kitchen display beat paper chits on a busy floor.
8 Jul 2026
Restaurant
Restaurant Menu Pricing, 5 Strategies That Protect Your Margin
How to price a restaurant menu for profit, cost-plus, competitive, value and psychological pricing, plus how to use combos and anchors. Practical tactics with the food-cost maths behind them.
5 Jul 2026
POS
Offline POS vs Cloud POS, Which Does Your Business Actually Need?
Cloud POS or offline-first POS? Understand the real difference, why billing stalls when the internet drops, and how offline-first systems keep the counter moving without giving up the cloud's benefits.
2 Jul 2026
Restaurant
How to Open a Cloud Kitchen in India
A practical guide to launching a cloud kitchen, picking the right location, licences, aggregator onboarding, running multiple brands from one kitchen, and keeping food cost honest without a dining room to hide it.
28 Jun 2026
Restaurant
How to Reduce Food Cost in Your Restaurant
Practical ways to cut food cost without cutting quality, track it by recipe, control wastage, tighten purchasing, and use your POS data to find the dishes quietly losing you money.
25 Jun 2026
Retail
How to Start a Kirana / Grocery Store in India
A step-by-step guide to opening a kirana or grocery store, location, licences, supplier tie-ups, stock planning, and the billing setup that keeps thin grocery margins from leaking away.
20 Jun 2026
GST & Tax
What Is an E-Way Bill and When Do You Need One?
A plain-English guide to the e-way bill in India, what it is, the value threshold that triggers it, who generates it, validity periods, and how to create one straight from your invoice.
18 Jun 2026
Retail
Inventory Management for Small Businesses, A Practical Guide
Stop guessing your stock. A straightforward guide to inventory for small shops and restaurants, reorder points, stock takes, dead stock, FIFO for perishables, and the reports that show which items actually make money.
12 Jun 2026
GST & Tax
How to Calculate GST, A Simple Guide for Businesses
Learn how to calculate GST in India, add GST to a price, remove it from an inclusive amount, work out CGST and SGST, and avoid the rounding mistakes that trip up most invoices.
10 Jun 2026
GST & Tax
How to Create a GST Invoice, Format and Mandatory Fields
What a valid GST invoice must contain, GSTIN, invoice number, HSN/SAC codes, taxable value, CGST/SGST/IGST split and more, plus the difference between a tax invoice and a bill of supply.
4 Jun 2026
GST & Tax
GST Rates for Restaurants in India, 5% vs 18% Explained
Why some restaurants charge 5% GST and others 18%, how AC, non-AC, delivery and hotel-attached dining differ, what input tax credit has to do with it, and how to bill the right rate every time.
28 May 2026
Restaurant
Licenses You Need to Open a Restaurant in India
FSSAI, GST, shop & establishment, trade license, fire NOC, liquor permit, the full checklist of licenses and registrations to open a restaurant in India, what each covers, and roughly what to budget.
21 May 2026
Restaurant
Menu Engineering, Turn Your Menu Into a Profit Map
Menu engineering sorts every dish by popularity and margin into four buckets, Stars, Plowhorses, Puzzles and Dogs, so you know exactly what to promote, reprice or cut. Here's how to do it with your own POS data.
14 May 2026