Your customers
- Truck drivers and cleaners
- Transport companies (khata)
- Bus passengers
- Car travellers and families
- Local workers
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MatruOS for a dhaba or highway restaurant
Set up the way a dhaba or highway restaurant runs: meals, rotis, parathas, tea and snacks sold round the clock; bus-halt passenger sales; packaged water and snacks; truckers' monthly credit; sometimes bath, rest rooms and parking. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.
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What this solves
What a dhaba or highway restaurant deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Cash goes missing between the day and night shifts. Bus halts cost driver food and cash but nobody knows which buses pay.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 7 licences for a dhaba or highway restaurant, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.
What changes
The right person is reminded at the right time, approvals wait for whoever decides, and every licence has a renewal reminder. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Where you sit
MatruOS starts from how your business earns
Who you sell to, who you buy from, how credit moves and where you sit in the chain decide how your screens, reminders and reports are set up.
Your suppliers
- Atta and grocery wholesalers
- Dairy (milk, paneer, curd)
- Vegetable traders
- Commercial LPG distributor
- Water tankers
- Diesel for generator
Credit and cash
Walk-ins pay cash or UPI; fleets settle a monthly khata (often 30-60 days late); dairy paid daily or weekly; grocery and gas 15-30 days
Daily cash across two shifts; the trucker khata ties up Rs 50,000-5 lakh; bus-halt payments to drivers are daily cash
Your screens use your words
ItemDishInvoiceBillproductDish
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a dhaba or highway restaurant
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Dhaba / highway restaurant", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a dhaba or highway restaurantRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
- Bring your dataCustomers, items and balances come across from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others. For Tally, our team helps you move the data while Tally import is checked on the live app.
- Approve and runThe AI team prepares the routine work. A person approves anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes.
Your AI team
What the AI team does for a dhaba or highway restaurant
Each job goes to a member of your AI team. It reads your own records and prepares the work. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval.
Matches each shift's cash and UPI with sales and pay-outs, flags shortfalls above the limit and patterns by cashier
Works it out and shows you
Works out sales per halt against driver food and cash for each operator and suggests which tie-ups to keep or drop; suggests cooking quantities for expected halts
Works it out and shows you
Prepares each fleet's statement with chit photos and drafts reminders; flags fleets past 60 days
Asks you before sending
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How you run
Your routines, already on a timetable
Each routine has a time, a person and its steps with the checks that matter. MatruOS reminds the right person and keeps the record. Open one to see its steps.
Every day
6:00 amDay shift opening and handover
- 1Count cash and UPI with the night cashier; sign the galla
- 2Dough, curd and dal soaking started; tandoor fired
8:00 amBus-halt tally
- 1List buses that halted, passengers, sales and cash paid to drivers
- 2Drop operators whose halts do not pay
9:00 amMorning purchase
- 1Buy vegetables, paneer and milk by yesterday's sales and today's bus schedule
- 2Check gas cylinders and diesel
3:30 pmKitchen and toilet hygiene round
- 1Clean tandoor area and drains; cover raw and cooked food
- 2Toilets and bath area cleaned
6:00 pmNight shift handover
- 1Count cash and UPI; sign the galla
- 2Note bus halts expected tonight
Every week
MonTransporter khata statements
- 1Total each transporter's chits; send a statement with chit photos
- 2Stop credit for fleets past 60 days
Every month
1stStaff salaries and advances
- 1Pay salaries less advances; record new advances
Every year
MarFSSAI, health licence and scale verification
- 1Renew FSSAI, health trade licence and fire NOC; get scales verified
Workflows
Each stage goes to the person who handles it
Work passes stage by stage to the right person. Stages marked for approval wait for the person who decides.
Trucker chit to settlement
- 1Driver signs chit with truck number
- 2Chit entered in khata
- 3Monthly statement sent to fleet
- 4Payment received and khata settledNeeds approval
Registers and SOPs
Your registers and standards
Registers hold the fields this trade records. SOPs carry the steps and checks, so work is done the same way every time.
Galla (shift cash)
Bus halts
Transporter khata
Shift cash handover
Stop cash leakage between shifts
Dhaba food safety
Safe food on a dusty highway, and a clean inspection
Items and licences
Your first bill is right, and no licence lapses
Starter items arrive with unit, HSN and GST rate. The registrations this business usually needs are listed with a reminder before each one expires.
| Item | HSN | GST |
|---|---|---|
| Dal fry or dal makhani | 996331 | 5% |
| Tandoori roti | 996331 | 5% |
| Aloo paratha with curd and butter | 996331 | 5% |
| Shahi paneer or kadhai paneer | 996331 | 5% |
| Veg thali (truckers' meal) | 996331 | 5% |
| Tea | 996331 | 5% |
| Lassi | 996331 | 5% |
| Packaged water, 1 litre (MRP) | 2201 | 5% |
| Bath and toilet use | 999799 | 18% |
- FSSAI food licence
- GST registration
- Health or eating-house licence
- Fire NOCIf it applies
- Shops and Establishments registration
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Weighing scale stamping
Your people
The people who run it, each with their own login
Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.
Owner (seth)Galla, buying, bus operator tie-ups, transporter khata, licences.
Shift managerRuns the shift, cash handover, staff, bus halts.
Head cook (master)Menu, gravies, dough, kitchen staff, quantities.
Tandoor manRotis, parathas, naan.
Waiter and cleanerServe, take orders, clean tables, charpais and toilets.
Not covered yet
- Sending messages, bills and reminders on WhatsApp from MatruOS is not live yet. Today they go by link, QR code or email, and from your own phone in one tap.
- Live bank and UPI feeds are not connected yet. Upload a bank statement and MatruOS reads it into payments for you to confirm.
Questions people ask
How long does it take to set up MatruOS for a dhaba or highway restaurant?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Dhaba / highway restaurant". MatruOS picks this business type and sets up everything on this page in a few minutes. You then get a 7-day free trial, no card needed.
Do I have to type all of this in?
No. The routines, workflows, registers, items, licences and AI team on this page arrive already set up. You change what is different in your business, and bring your customers, items and balances from Zoho Books, Vyapar, Excel and others, with our team's help for Tally data.
Can I change the routines and workflows?
Yes. Every routine, workflow, register and SOP is yours to rename, retime, switch off or add to. MatruOS keeps the rest of the system in step with your changes.
What does the AI team do without asking me?
It runs routine checks and prepares drafts. Anything that sends, pays, signs, files or deletes waits for a person's approval. The one exception you can choose is payment reminders, which go out on their own once you have checked them and switched them on.
Hotels, restaurants and travel
Other services in hotels, restaurants and travel
Run a dhaba or highway restaurant on one system Set up for your trade when you sign up.
Describe your business once. MatruOS sets up your apps, brings in your data and puts Muni and the AI team to work, with your approval on every step that matters. 7-day free trial, no card needed.
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