2011
01 / 1001Founding mandate
The practice is founded
RESTO Consultancy opens with a single conviction — that hospitality in India fails on operations far more often than it fails on food. The first mandates are turnaround briefs.
Hospitality Consulting · Est. 2011
We BuildHospitality BrandsThat Scale.
End-to-end hospitality consulting for restaurants, cafés, hotels, cloud kitchens and hospitality businesses across India.
2011
Established
100+
Projects
Pan India
Operations
02Who We Are
A consultingpractice for hospitalitybusinesses.
Since 2011 we have built, corrected and scaled hospitality businesses across India — restaurants, cafés, hotels, resorts, bars and cloud kitchens. We are not a design studio and not an agency. We are operators who make hospitality businesses profitable, then make that profitability repeatable.
Strategy
Positioning, format and target economics decided before capital is committed.
Operations
The SOPs, controls and shift discipline that hold a standard once we leave.
Growth
Replication playbooks, franchise packaging and multi-unit governance.
01
1987
Founded
Fifteen years in practice
02
0+
Projects
Across every hospitality format
03
Pan India
Operations
Project teams in eleven cities
04
0
Suto Café Projects
A single client, replicated
03Capabilities
Twelve disciplines.One accountable team.
04Trajectory
Fifteen years, in sequence.
Every capability this practice offers was added because a client project demanded it. This is the order it happened in.
2013
02 / 1012Kitchens planned
Kitchen planning becomes a discipline
A dedicated kitchen design practice is formed after repeated evidence that layout, not staffing, was capping throughput across client sites.
2015
03 / 1004Outlets replicated
First multi-outlet mandate
The firm takes its first replication brief — building the playbook that lets a proven single unit be rebuilt without losing its economics.
2016
04 / 1001Of fourteen
The Suto Café partnership begins
A relationship that would run across fourteen separate projects starts with a single café format brief — concept, kitchen, menu and operating standard.
2018
05 / 1009Properties advised
Hotel & resort F&B division
The practice extends into hotel food and beverage, restructuring outlet mix and banqueting operations for resort properties.
2019
06 / 1011Cities served
Pan-India operations
Project teams begin operating across regions, taking mandates well beyond the home market and standardising delivery across geographies.
2022
07 / 1018Virtual brands
Cloud kitchen practice
A delivery-native advisory line is launched — multi-brand kitchens, aggregator economics and packaging cost models built for post-pandemic demand.
2023
08 / 1006Brands packaged
Franchise & licensing
Client brands are packaged into franchisable assets: manuals, territory models, unit-economics packs and the audit regime that holds standards.
2024
09 / 10100+Projects delivered
One hundred projects
The firm crosses one hundred completed mandates across restaurants, cafés, hotels, resorts, bars and cloud kitchens.
2026
10 / 1015Years in practice
The next decade
The practice moves toward institutional advisory — capital planning, portfolio governance and multi-unit expansion for hospitality groups.
05Why RESTO
We are measured on month twelve,not on opening night.
Launches are easy to celebrate and hard to sustain. Our mandates are written against the numbers a business posts a year after we hand it back.
Indexed contribution margin
Typical engagement arc
4.4×
Index, M1 → M12
12
Months tracked
M1
M3
M6
M9
M12
Illustrative. Actual trajectories vary by format, city and capital structure — the target curve is set during Strategy and reviewed against real numbers at month twelve.
01Margin-first
We lead with unit economics
Every recommendation is priced. If a decision does not show up in contribution margin, occupancy cost or labour ratio, it does not enter the deck.
02Floor-tested
Operators, not presenters
The team has run kitchens, floors and P&Ls. Advice is written by people who have had to execute it at 8pm on a Saturday.
03Single owner
End to end, one accountable team
Concept, kitchen, menu, manpower, launch and expansion sit with a single team — so nothing is lost in the handover between specialists.
04Documented
Built to be replicated
We document as we build. What we install can be repeated by your team in the next city without us in the room.
05Pan-India
Indian market fluency
Licensing, aggregator behaviour, regional supply chains and labour markets differ by state. We plan for the market you are actually opening in.
06Month 12
We stay past the launch
Opening a venue is the easy part. Our mandates are measured on performance at month twelve, not on launch-night footfall.
06Engagement Model
Eight stages,start to scale.
A mandate moves through the same sequence every time. Nothing is skipped and nothing runs in parallel that shouldn't.
01Stage 1 / 8
Discover
Market, site, competition and capital. We establish what is actually possible before anyone commits a rupee to design.
Outputs
- Market study
- Site assessment
- Feasibility model
07Selected Work
Businesses wemade work.
Café · Multi-outlet2016 — 2024
Suto Café
14
Outlets delivered
Pan India
- Concept
- Kitchen planning
- Menu engineering
- Expansion
Fine dining2023
Atelier Dining
31%
Food cost held
Mumbai
- Pre-opening
- Operations
- Training
Resort F&B2022
Harbour House
2.4×
F&B revenue
Goa
- Outlet mix
- Banqueting
- Departmental P&L
Cloud kitchen2022
Northline Kitchens
6
Brands, one kitchen
Delhi NCR
- Virtual brands
- Aggregator strategy
- Packaging economics
Bar2023
Cobalt Bar & Social
+38%
Average bill
Bengaluru
- Beverage programme
- Menu engineering
- Manpower
Hotel2021
The Mirabel
11
Outlets restructured
Jaipur
- Kitchen planning
- SOPs
- Training
Bakery café2024
Grainhouse Bakery
9
Franchise units
Pune
- Concept
- Costing
- Franchise pack
Resort group2024
Verdant Resorts
4
Properties
Kerala
- Expansion
- Governance
- Capital planning
08In Their Words
What operators say afterwards.
They arrived with a spreadsheet before they arrived with an opinion. Six months later our food cost was down four points and nobody had to be told twice.
Placeholder Name
Managing Director · Café group, Western India
We had opened two outlets and both behaved differently. RESTO documented the first one properly and the third opened on standard in eleven weeks.
Placeholder Name
Founder · Multi-outlet restaurant brand
The kitchen plan alone changed the business. Peak-hour output nearly doubled in the same square footage we already had.
Placeholder Name
Director of Operations · Resort property, South India
What separated them was that they stayed. The launch went well, but the month-twelve review is where the real work showed up.
Placeholder Name
Promoter · Hospitality group
Our delivery brand was busy and losing money. They rebuilt the packaging and the menu maths, and it turned contribution-positive inside a quarter.
Placeholder Name
Co-founder · Cloud kitchen, Delhi NCR
They arrived with a spreadsheet before they arrived with an opinion. Six months later our food cost was down four points and nobody had to be told twice.
Placeholder Name
Managing Director · Café group, Western India
We had opened two outlets and both behaved differently. RESTO documented the first one properly and the third opened on standard in eleven weeks.
Placeholder Name
Founder · Multi-outlet restaurant brand
The kitchen plan alone changed the business. Peak-hour output nearly doubled in the same square footage we already had.
Placeholder Name
Director of Operations · Resort property, South India
What separated them was that they stayed. The launch went well, but the month-twelve review is where the real work showed up.
Placeholder Name
Promoter · Hospitality group
Our delivery brand was busy and losing money. They rebuilt the packaging and the menu maths, and it turned contribution-positive inside a quarter.
Placeholder Name
Co-founder · Cloud kitchen, Delhi NCR
Attributions withheld pending client sign-off.
Connecting Vision. Creating Success.
Let's Build YourHospitality Brand.
Tell us the format, the city and the number you need to hit. We will tell you, honestly, whether it is achievable — and what it takes.