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Every outlet.
Every shift.
Profitable. Consistent. Compliant.

Running a food and beverage business at scale means the same standard enforced at every outlet, every shift — kitchen consistency, food cost control, supplier quality, hygiene compliance, and brand standards. One outlet with a food cost problem is a margin problem. One supplier delivering substandard ingredients is a brand and safety risk. One missed FSSAI renewal is a regulatory exposure. Hubler is the execution layer for F&B and QSR networks — governing outlet operations, food cost, procurement, compliance, and franchise standards from one platform.

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Food cost control · Inventory & wastage management
Outlet SOPs · Supplier quality · Procurement governance
FSSAI compliance workflows supported
New outlet opening · Franchise governance

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Complex farm-to-home F&B operations across 400+ cities. Result: Zero manual processes in procurement and delivery operations.

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The Problem

F&B operations break
where performance meets scale.

A single-unit restaurant manages food cost, wastage, and compliance manually and gets away with it. A network of 50, 200, or 500 outlets cannot. The same kitchen standard, food cost discipline, supplier quality, and hygiene protocol — enforced at every outlet, every shift — requires a system. Without one, performance is invisible until the month-end P&L, and compliance is reactive until an inspector arrives.

Food cost leaks silently

Ingredient wastage, over-portioning, unrecorded spoilage, and variance between theoretical recipe cost and actual consumption accumulate into margin erosion. Without outlet-level food cost tracking, the problem is visible only at month-end — by which point weeks of leakage have already occurred.

Inventory and wastage are untracked

Perishable ingredients expire unnoticed. Over-ordering causes spoilage. Under-ordering causes stockouts at peak service. Without structured inventory tracking, cycle counts, and expiry management, food cost and service consistency both suffer simultaneously.

SOP consistency breaks across outlets

Kitchen SOPs, food preparation standards, hygiene protocols, and service standards exist on paper. Whether they are followed at every outlet, every shift, by every team member is unverifiable without a system. Brand standards erode in the gap between the document and the outlet floor.

Supplier quality is ungoverned

Ingredient quality and food safety begins at the supplier. Without structured vendor compliance tracking — approved supplier lists, quality certificates, delivery performance, and food safety documentation — substandard ingredients enter the kitchen undetected and untraced.

Food safety compliance is reactive

FSSAI audits, hygiene inspections, and food safety incidents are discovered reactively — when an inspector arrives or a customer complaint surfaces. The compliance gaps were invisible between visits.

Franchise governance is inconsistent

Franchise networks carry brand and regulatory risk at every node. A franchisee operating below food safety or brand standards creates liability for the brand owner. Without structured audit programmes and corrective workflows, franchise governance runs on trust rather than evidence.

The F&B Execution Loop

From supplier to outlet.
Food cost governed at every stage.

Hubler runs the F&B execution loop — connecting approved suppliers through procurement, inbound quality, kitchen operations, and outlet performance, while governing food cost, wastage, compliance, and franchise standards simultaneously. POS sales feed back into consumption variance analysis and procurement triggers, closing the loop between what sold and what should be ordered.

ASP
Approved Supplier Programme
Vendor qualification · Quality documentation · Food safety compliance
1
Procurement Execution
Demand signal → PO generation → Three-way matching → Invoice governance
2
Inbound Quality Check
GRN at outlet · Temperature and quality confirmation · Discrepancy workflows
3
Inventory & Wastage Management
Stock tracking · Near-expiry management · Wastage recording · Cycle counts
POS Sales Data — feeds consumption variance analysis and procurement triggers
4
Kitchen Operations
Recipe adherence · Portion control · Food cost tracking · SOP compliance
5
Food Safety & Compliance
Daily hygiene checks · Temperature logs · FSSAI documentation · Audit readiness
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Food Cost & Operations AI Agent
Monitoring continuously — variance detected → investigation workflow triggered
6
Franchise Governance
Brand standard audits · Food safety compliance · Corrective action tracking
7
Cost Governance
Rent · Utilities · Maintenance per outlet — governed and benchmarked
Outcomes Fed Back into Planning and Procurement
Actuals → Next order cycle smarter · Waste patterns → Supplier and menu decisions
What Hubler Governs

Nine F&B execution domains.
One governed platform.

Capability 01

Inventory, Wastage & Food Cost Control

Know your food cost before month-end

Food cost is the single largest variable cost in F&B operations — and the one most commonly governed by month-end reports rather than daily visibility. Ingredient wastage, over-portioning, unrecorded spoilage, and variance between theoretical and actual consumption accumulate silently. Hubler governs inventory, wastage, and food cost at the outlet level — tracking consumption against expected recipe usage, flagging near-expiry stock, recording wastage, and surfacing food cost variance before the P&L closes.

What's governed
  • Ingredient stock tracking per outlet — opening stock, receipts, consumption, and closing stock per shift or per day
  • Recipe-level consumption benchmarking — actual usage compared against theoretical recipe consumption, variance flagged
  • POS integration — sales data connected to consumption expectations, driving procurement triggers and wastage analysis
  • Near-expiry management — ingredients approaching expiry flagged before use or write-off, FIFO compliance confirmed
  • Wastage recording — all wastage recorded by category, quantity, and reason — spoilage, over-preparation, incorrect portioning
  • Food cost variance investigation workflows — outlet-level variance above threshold triggers workflow assigned to outlet manager
  • Stockout prevention — low stock alerts triggered before service windows at configured thresholds
  • Cycle count workflows — scheduled and unscheduled stock counts with variance detection and adjustment approval
The outcome

Food cost visible at outlet level every day — not only at month-end. Wastage patterns identified and acted on before they become structural margin loss.

Capability 02

Outlet SOPs & Kitchen Consistency

The same dish. Every outlet. Every shift.

Kitchen consistency is what a QSR brand sells. Recipe adherence, portion control, preparation temperature, plating standards, and service sequence must be identical whether the outlet is in Mumbai or Bengaluru, company-owned or franchised. Hubler deploys your SOPs as structured operational workflows at the outlet level.

What's governed
  • Opening and closing checklists — kitchen prep, equipment startup, hygiene confirmation, and clean-down with evidence
  • Food preparation SOPs — recipe adherence, portion control, temperature compliance, and presentation standards with photo evidence
  • Portion control audits — random checks on portion weights against recipe specification, variance logged and corrective action triggered
  • Service and front-of-house standards — service sequence, cleanliness, and customer experience checkpoints
  • Shift handover documentation — open issues, temperature readings, equipment status, and inventory levels passed to incoming shift
  • Corrective action workflows — SOP deviation detected → assigned to outlet manager → resolved and documented
  • SOP version control — updated SOPs deployed to all outlets simultaneously with confirmation of staff briefing
  • Brand audit scoring — outlet performance against brand standards scored, trended, and visible to area managers in real time
The outcome

Brand standard enforced at the outlet level — not assumed. SOP deviations surface and close before they become customer complaints or compliance gaps.

Capability 03

Food Safety & FSSAI Compliance

Every outlet. Audit-ready. Every day.

FSSAI compliance for a multi-outlet F&B network is a daily operational discipline, not a once-a-year audit exercise. Hubler supports FSSAI documentation and renewal tracking, deploys food safety checklists, governs temperature logging, and maintains a complete compliance record per outlet — so every outlet is audit-ready when an inspector arrives.

What's governed
  • Daily food safety checklists — kitchen hygiene, surface cleaning, equipment sanitisation, waste disposal, and pest control with photo evidence
  • Cold chain and temperature logging — refrigeration temperatures logged at configured intervals, breach alerts with immediate corrective workflow
  • HACCP-aligned critical control point monitoring — temperature checks at cooking, cooling, and storage stages logged each shift
  • Date-code and expiry management — near-expiry ingredients flagged before use, disposal records maintained
  • Staff hygiene compliance — daily health confirmation, PPE compliance, food handler certification tracking
  • FSSAI licence and registration renewal tracking — renewal alerts at configured lead times, documentation repository per outlet
  • Statutory compliance register — FSSAI, local health permits, fire NOC, trade licence — all tracked with renewal workflows
  • Audit readiness — complete food safety record exportable on demand for FSSAI inspectors or platform food safety reviews
The outcome

Every outlet audit-ready — not prepared in a scramble when an inspector is announced. FSSAI renewals tracked and actioned before they lapse.

Capability 04

Procurement & Supply Chain Execution

Standardised menu. Governed supply chain.

QSR and F&B procurement is centralised for a reason — standardised ingredients at consistent quality and competitive cost. Hubler's Procurement AI Agent governs the full procurement cycle from demand signal or POS consumption trigger to approved payment, with three-way matching on every invoice and full traceability from the purchase order back to the menu item it supports.

What's governed
  • Demand-driven and POS-triggered procurement — outlet consumption or POS sales data triggers replenishment requests
  • Centralised PO generation — purchase orders generated with approved supplier, contracted price, and correct tax treatment
  • Multi-level approval routing — by value, category, outlet, and business rule
  • Supplier delivery management — delivery scheduling, GRN confirmation at outlet, discrepancy workflows
  • Three-way matching — PO, delivery note, and invoice matched at line level before payment
  • Food safety documentation at receipt — temperature at delivery, batch codes, and expiry dates logged for traceability
  • ERP integration — confirmed transactions posted to your system of record automatically
  • GST and TDS compliance for Indian F&B operators
The outcome

Demand signal to approved PO in minutes. Every invoice matched before payment. Full food safety traceability from supplier delivery to kitchen.

→ Full procurement execution — Procurement AI Agent and Three-Way Matching
Capability 05

Vendor & Approved Supplier Management

Every ingredient. From an approved supplier.

Food safety and food cost both begin at the supplier. Hubler governs the approved supplier programme — vendor qualification, food safety documentation, delivery performance, pricing compliance, and ongoing quality tracking — so every ingredient entering your kitchen comes from a verified, approved, and actively monitored supplier.

What's governed
  • Approved supplier programme — vendor qualification against food safety, quality, and commercial criteria before activation
  • Food safety documentation — FSSAI licence, quality certificates, lab test reports, and cold chain compliance tracked for renewal
  • Vendor onboarding — legal entity verification, GST/PAN validation, bank account verification, food safety certification
  • Delivery performance tracking — on-time delivery rate, temperature compliance at delivery, quality acceptance, and rejection rate per supplier
  • Vendor portal — suppliers submit invoices, delivery documentation, and food safety certificates without calling your procurement team
  • Supplier non-conformance management — quality rejections and food safety failures through a governed resolution workflow
  • Pricing compliance tracking — invoiced prices compared against contracted rates, variances flagged before payment
The outcome

Every supplier qualified, documented, and tracked. Food safety documentation current. Pricing compliance confirmed before payment.

Capability 06

New Outlet Opening

Every outlet opens food-safe and ready.

Opening a new F&B outlet is a compressed, high-stakes project. Hubler governs the full new outlet opening as a project — from site through lease, fit-out, compliance, and launch — so the first service runs food-safe, compliant, and stocked.

What's governed
  • Site evaluation — location scored against catchment, rental benchmark, and competitive proximity
  • Lease acquisition — ingested into the Lease AI Agent from day one
  • Fit-out project management — milestones tracked, vendor payments matched to completion, kitchen equipment registered during installation
  • Pre-opening compliance — FSSAI registration, trade licence, fire NOC, health permits confirmed before opening
  • Equipment commissioning — kitchen equipment tested and food-safe certified before first service
  • Staff training compliance — all FSSAI-required training completed and documented before opening
  • Opening inventory — ingredient stock received, temperature-verified, batch codes logged, and confirmed accurate
  • Pre-opening readiness checklist — every critical item confirmed before go-live approved
The outcome

Every outlet opens food-safe, FSSAI-compliant, fully stocked, and staffed to standard — not improvised under time pressure.

→ See the full outlet lifecycle — from site selection to ongoing operations
Capability 07

Franchise Governance

Your brand standard. At every franchisee.

Franchise F&B networks carry significant brand and regulatory risk at every node. Hubler governs franchise compliance through structured audit programmes, corrective action workflows, and real-time network visibility — so the brand standard is enforced, not assumed.

What's governed
  • Franchise onboarding — brand standards, FSSAI obligations, and training requirements structured and confirmed before activation
  • Brand standard audit programme — scheduled and surprise audits with structured checklists, photo evidence, and scoring
  • Food safety audit programme — FSSAI-aligned checklists deployed at franchisee outlets at configured frequency
  • Audit scoring and trending — franchisee performance scored, trended, and visible to the brand management team
  • Corrective action workflows — audit finding → assigned to franchisee → resolution within SLA → closed with evidence
  • Escalation for persistent non-compliance — franchisees below minimum score escalated to brand leadership
  • Franchisee compliance portal — franchisees see their audit scores, open actions, and compliance calendar
The outcome

Franchise brand and food safety standards enforced with evidence. Non-compliance discovered in audit cycles, not customer incidents.

Capability 08

Equipment & Asset Management

Every fryer. Every refrigerator. Tracked.

Kitchen equipment failure mid-service is an operational incident and potentially a food safety event. Hubler tracks every kitchen and front-of-house asset, schedules preventive maintenance, and triggers corrective workflows before failures occur.

What's governed
  • Asset register per outlet — every piece of equipment with condition, maintenance schedule, service history, and warranty
  • Preventive maintenance scheduling — triggered automatically by asset age, usage, and manufacturer guidelines
  • Equipment fault reporting — reported via mobile, routed to maintenance team with resolution SLA
  • Cold chain equipment monitoring — temperature breach alerts with immediate corrective and food safety escalation
  • Annual equipment certification — food safety-critical equipment certifications tracked and renewed
  • Equipment lifecycle management — replacement decisions supported by maintenance cost history
The outcome

Equipment failures prevented before service disruption. Cold chain equipment monitored continuously. Maintenance costs governed and benchmarked.

Capability 09

Rent, Utilities & Outlet Cost Governance

Every outlet cost obligation. Governed.

Each F&B outlet carries rent, utilities, maintenance, and licensing obligations. Across a network of dozens or hundreds of outlets, untracked costs accumulate into margin erosion. Hubler governs every cost obligation per outlet.

What's governed
  • Rent payment scheduling from lease terms — governed by the Lease AI Agent
  • Rent escalation management — applied automatically at the agreed schedule
  • Lease renewal alerts — configured lead times before renewal windows
  • Utility bill management — electricity, water, gas validated against meter readings, anomalies flagged before payment
  • Maintenance and service contract payments — matched to service confirmation before release
  • Cost performance per outlet — occupancy cost, utility spend, and maintenance tracked and benchmarked across the network
The outcome

Every outlet cost obligation tracked and governed. Lease renewals never missed. Utility anomalies caught before payment.

→ Every outlet lease governed for its full life — by the Hubler Lease AI Agent
F&B AI Agents

AI agents that govern
your F&B network.

Seven prebuilt AI agents for F&B and QSR operations — each one governed, auditable, and connected to your existing stack. Approvals, human-in-the-loop controls, audit trails, and role-based permissions built in. Not bolted on.

AgentWhat it doesBusiness outcome
Store Operations AgentMonitors SOP completion, food safety checks, hygiene audit outcomes, and equipment status across every outlet continuouslySOP deviation → Corrective workflow, automatically
Food Cost AgentMonitors ingredient consumption against recipe benchmarks, wastage recording, stock variance, and outlet-level food costFood cost variance → Investigation workflow
Procurement AgentReads demand signals and POS consumption triggers, generates POs to approved suppliers, routes approvals, matches invoicesDemand signal → Approved PO in minutes
Compliance AgentTracks FSSAI renewals, food safety obligations, licence expiry, and audit requirements across every outletCompliance gap → Escalation before inspection
Vendor AgentMonitors supplier delivery performance, food safety certification status, quality rejection rates, triggers supplier management actionsSupplier non-conformance → Governed resolution workflow
Finance AgentReviews supplier invoices, matches payments, prepares journal entries, escalates exceptionsInvoice → Approved payment workflow
Lease AgentTracks outlet lease obligations, monitors renewal deadlines, prepares IFRS 16 calculationsLease event → Compliant obligation management
Every F&B Format

QSR. Casual dining. Cloud kitchen.
Franchise. Delivery-only.
One platform governs all.

QSR Chains

Centralised procurement, standardised menus, food cost control, high-volume outlet operations, and FSSAI compliance workflows across hundreds of locations — governed from one platform with outlet-level execution and HQ visibility.

Casual and Fine Dining

Recipe adherence, premium ingredient sourcing, supplier quality governance, food cost tracking, FSSAI compliance workflows, and brand standard audits across managed and franchise locations.

Cloud Kitchens

FSSAI documentation tracking, kitchen hygiene audits, food safety SOPs, procurement from approved suppliers, wastage management, and platform partner compliance — governed with the same rigour as a physical outlet network.

Franchise Networks

Brand standard audits, food safety compliance programmes, franchisee onboarding, corrective action tracking, food cost visibility, and commercial compliance — with HQ visibility and franchisee-level accountability.

D2C Food & Beverage Brands

Supplier quality governance, cold chain compliance, procurement execution, wastage tracking, and regulatory compliance — for brands distributing direct-to-consumer through their own and third-party channels.

Proof

F&B and food supply chain operations
already running on Hubler.

Country Delight · Farm-to-home F&B · 400+ cities
Challenge

Complex procurement and delivery operations across a perishable food supply chain — dairy and fresh produce — requiring food safety governance and vendor compliance at every stage.

What Hubler did

Procurement workflows, vendor management, and supply chain operations governed through the execution layer.

Zero manual processes in procurement and delivery operations
Licious · Fresh protein — seafood, meat & poultry
Challenge

Procurement across perishable supply chains requiring precise vendor coordination, temperature compliance, and three-way matching at high volume.

What Hubler did

Procurement execution and vendor management governed through Hubler, with food safety documentation tracking at every stage.

3× improvement in order-to-vendor mapping accuracy
Quick commerce & food fulfilment network
Challenge

SOP compliance and operational consistency across a rapidly expanding dark store and food delivery network — with platform aggregator compliance requirements at every node.

What Hubler did

SOP compliance workflows deployed across the dark store and fulfilment network.

Measurable improvement in operational consistency and compliance visibility
Who It's For

Every team across
your F&B network.

Head of Operations
The problem

"I am responsible for every outlet running to the same standard — kitchen consistency, food cost, and compliance. I find out there is a problem when an audit happens, a customer complains, or the month-end P&L shows a food cost variance I cannot explain."

What Hubler gives you

Real-time outlet operations dashboard — SOP completion rates, food cost variance by outlet, inventory and wastage tracking, hygiene audit scores, and open corrective actions. Problems surface before they become costs.

Food Safety & Quality Manager
The problem

"FSSAI compliance across a multi-outlet network requires daily hygiene checks, temperature logs, and documentation at every outlet. Manual processes mean I am never fully confident in our audit readiness."

What Hubler gives you

Structured daily food safety checklists with photo evidence, temperature logging, HACCP critical control point monitoring, FSSAI documentation and renewal tracking, and a complete audit-ready record per outlet — exportable on demand.

Head of Procurement
The problem

"We run centralised procurement for our standardised menu. In practice, approvals run on email, invoice matching is manual, and I have no visibility into which suppliers are delivering to our food safety and quality standards."

What Hubler gives you

Procurement AI Agent from POS consumption signal to approved payment, approved supplier programme governance, food safety documentation tracking per supplier, and three-way matching on every invoice.

Head of Franchise
The problem

"I manage a franchise network where every franchisee carries our brand. Whether they are meeting our food safety and brand standards — and controlling food cost — between audits is unknown."

What Hubler gives you

Structured brand and food safety audit programme, corrective action workflows, audit scoring and trending, and food cost visibility across all franchisee outlets.

Chief Financial Officer
The problem

"Food cost, wastage, occupancy costs, and utility spend across a network of outlets — I see the P&L at month-end, not in real time. By then the leakage has already happened."

What Hubler gives you

Outlet-level food cost variance tracking, wastage recording, occupancy cost and utility governance — the cost obligations that drive outlet economics, visible and governed before they become actuals.

Connected to Your Stack

Hubler connects to every system
in your F&B stack.

ERP & Finance
SAPOracleMicrosoft DynamicsNetSuiteTallyQuickBooksZoho Books
POS & Order Management
POS SystemsOrder Management SystemsPlatform integrations via API
POS Integration — How it works

POS sales data feeds consumption benchmarking and procurement triggers in Hubler — connecting what sold at the outlet to what should be ordered next, and surfacing variance between expected and actual ingredient consumption automatically.

Planning & Demand
AnaplanSAP IBPAI Models via REST APIExcel
Communication
WhatsApp BusinessEmailSlackTeams
Compliance (India)
FSSAI documentation & renewal trackingGSTTDSeWay Bill
Questions

What F&B and QSR operations
teams ask.

How does food cost and wastage control work?
Hubler tracks ingredient stock at the outlet level — opening stock, inbound receipts, consumption, wastage recording, and closing stock — per shift or per day. Actual consumption is compared against theoretical recipe usage based on POS sales data, and variances above configured thresholds trigger investigation workflows assigned to the outlet manager. Wastage is recorded by category, quantity, and reason, giving operations and Finance teams visibility into the specific ingredients and outlets driving food cost variance. Near-expiry stock is flagged before it becomes write-off. The result is food cost visibility at the outlet level before the month-end P&L, not after.
How does FSSAI compliance management work across multiple outlets?
Hubler supports FSSAI documentation and renewal tracking across every outlet — each with a compliance register containing every licence, local health permit, fire NOC, and trade licence with expiry date, renewal alert lead times, and a document repository. Daily food safety checklists run at outlet level with photo evidence and sign-off. Temperature logs, hygiene audits, and HACCP critical control point records are maintained. The complete food safety record for each outlet is exportable on demand for FSSAI inspections, third-party audits, or platform food safety reviews.
How does the approved supplier programme work?
Suppliers are qualified against your food safety, quality, and commercial criteria before activation — FSSAI licence, quality certificates, lab test reports, and cold chain compliance documentation collected and stored. Delivery performance is tracked per supplier — on-time rate, temperature compliance, quality acceptance, and rejection rate. Food safety documentation renewals are tracked with automated alerts. Pricing compliance is monitored — invoiced prices compared against contracted rates, variances flagged before payment.
How does POS integration work with procurement?
POS sales data connects to Hubler's procurement and inventory modules. When sales data is ingested, Hubler calculates expected ingredient consumption based on recipe benchmarks for the dishes sold, compares this against actual stock movement, and surfaces variances for investigation. The same consumption data drives replenishment triggers — when stock reaches threshold based on expected consumption for the next period, replenishment requests are generated automatically and routed for approval.
How does franchise food safety governance work?
Brand and food safety audit checklists are deployed to franchisee outlets at configured frequency — scheduled or surprise. Each audit produces a scored record with photo evidence and identified corrective actions assigned to the franchisee with resolution SLAs. Persistent non-compliance escalates to brand leadership. The brand team has a real-time view of every franchisee's audit scores, open corrective actions, and compliance status — governance based on evidence, not relationship.
Does this work for cloud kitchens?
Yes. Cloud kitchens operate under the same FSSAI obligations, food safety requirements, and procurement governance as physical outlets — in some cases with stricter platform compliance requirements from aggregators. Hubler governs cloud kitchen food safety, hygiene audits, FSSAI documentation tracking, procurement from approved suppliers, inventory and wastage management, and operational SOPs with the same framework as the physical outlet network.
How long does it take to deploy?
The first F&B workflow is typically live in 4 weeks — most commonly outlet SOP management and food safety compliance workflows, or procurement execution. Additional modules including inventory and wastage tracking and food cost management are added in subsequent phases. New outlets added after the initial deployment inherit the full configuration from day one.
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