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MatruOS for a mid-day meal central kitchen

Set up the way a mid-day meal central kitchen runs: cooking cost per child per meal from the state under PM POSHAN (with foodgrains free from FCI), state top-ups (eggs, milk, fruit), and CSR or donor grants for the gap and for capital. Routines, workflows, registers, licences and an AI team that knows the work are ready when you sign up.

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Hotels, restaurants and travelReady when you sign up

  • 9routines on a timetable
  • 1workflows with approvals
  • 2SOPs and checks
  • 4registers of your own
  • 3jobs for your AI team
  • 10licences tracked

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What this solves

What a mid-day meal central kitchen deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it

01Today

School counts arrive late or wrong, so food is cooked short or wasted. Monthly claims and utilisation certificates take days and errors delay funds.

02In MatruOS

MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 4 registers and 10 licences for a mid-day meal central kitchen, with an AI team that reads your own records and prepares the work.

03What 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.

  1. Centre and state (funds and grains)
  2. kitchen operator
  3. schools
  4. children

Your customers

  • State education department (PM POSHAN cell)
  • Government and aided schools (beneficiaries)
  • CSR donors

Your suppliers

  • FCI and the state food corporation (foodgrains)
  • Pulse and oil wholesalers
  • Vegetable traders
  • LPG or piped gas and boiler fuel
  • Van owners
  • Salt and spice makers

Credit and cash

State funds come quarterly or monthly against claims and utilisation certificates, often 1-3 months late; suppliers are paid on 15-30 days credit; donors pay by grant schedule

Kitchens carry 1-3 months of food and fuel costs while state funds are delayed; capital (kitchen Rs 2-15 crore) comes from donors, CSR and state land

Your screens use your words

  • CustomerSchool
  • OrderMeal count
  • ItemMeal
  • InvoiceClaim
  • productMeal

How it works

How MatruOS is set up for a mid-day meal central kitchen

Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.

  1. Describe the business in one lineFor example "Mid-day meal central kitchen", typed when you sign up.
  2. Recognised as a mid-day meal central kitchenRoutines, workflows, registers, items, licences and the AI team for this trade are set up for you.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 mid-day meal central kitchen

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.

Operations head

Collects each school's count, flags missing or unusual counts and short or excess food, and sets tomorrow's cooking quantities per route from the norms

Reads school meal counts and cooking and dispatch log

Works it out and shows you

Store keeper

Reconciles grain issued with meals cooked at the norms, reminds about the monthly FCI lifting, and drafts the week's supplier orders

Reads foodgrain and stock register and meal counts

Asks you before sending

Accountant

Prepares the monthly claim by category, the utilisation certificate and the cost-per-meal report for donors

Reads school meal counts, foodgrain and stock register and supplier bills

Asks you before sending and signing

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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 day4

  • 3:30 amCooking startsProduction supervisor · 3 steps
    1. 1Quantities from yesterday's counts and today's menu
    2. 2Rice and dal washed in potable water; boiler pressure checked
    3. 3Cooks in caps, aprons and gloves; no sick staff
  • 6:30 amPacking and route dispatchProduction supervisor · 3 steps
    1. 1Food temperature at packing above 65°C
    2. 2Vessels sealed and labelled by school; sample kept
    3. 3Vans leave by route so food reaches schools before lunch break
  • 12:00 pmCollect meal counts and plan tomorrowProduction supervisor · 3 steps
    1. 1Get children fed per school from teachers or the state monitoring system
    2. 2Note short or excess food per school
    3. 3Set tomorrow's cooking quantities
  • 2:30 pmVessel return, washing and prep for tomorrowCook · 3 steps
    1. 1Count vessels back by route
    2. 2Wash with detergent and hot water; dry upside down
    3. 3Receive and cut vegetables for tomorrow

Every week1

  • SatWeekly stock count and supplier ordersStores keeper · 2 steps
    1. 1Physical count of grain, dal, oil, salt, spices
    2. 2Order dal, oil, spices and vegetables for next week

Every month2

  • 5thMonthly foodgrain lifting from FCIStores keeper · 2 steps
    1. 1Lift allocation against the release order; check quality and weight
    2. 2Stack on pallets, first-in-first-out
  • 7thMonthly claim and utilisation certificateAccounts person · 3 steps
    1. 1Total meals by category from school counts
    2. 2Prepare claim, utilisation certificate and grain account
    3. 3Submit to the block or district PM POSHAN officer

Every year1

  • MarAnnual social audit, inspections and renewalsKitchen manager · 2 steps
    1. 1Social audit and the district's annual review; boiler inspection; FSSAI renewal
    2. 2Donor and CSR annual reports

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.

Count to cook to claim

  1. 1Previous day's count receivedRoute driver
  2. 2Quantities set and food cookedProduction supervisor
  3. 3Delivered and tasted at schoolRoute driver
  4. 4Count entered for the claimAccounts person
  5. 5Monthly claim approvedKitchen managerNeeds 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.

  • School meal counts

    School · Date · Route · Enrolled · Primary meals served · Upper primary meals served · Tasted by teacher and two adults · Food short or excess

  • Foodgrain and stock register

    Date · Item · Received · Issued to kitchen · Balance · Source or challan

  • Cooking and dispatch log

    Date · Menu · Rice cooked kg · Dal cooked kg · Food temperature at dispatch · Dispatch time · Sample retained · Supervisor

  • Monthly claims

    Month · Primary meals · Upper primary meals · Claim amount · Utilisation certificate filed · Received · Received on

  • Central kitchen hygiene and food safety

    No child falls ill

    5 steps with checks

  • Nutrition norms per child

    Each child gets the meal the scheme promises

    3 steps with checks

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.

ItemHSNGST
Hot cooked meal, primary (cooking cost) · meal9963370%
Hot cooked meal, upper primary (cooking cost) · meal9963370%
Egg or banana (state top-up) · item9963370%
Milk serving (state top-up) · glass9963370%
  • FSSAI food licenceFSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India)
  • Trust or society registrationCharity commissioner, sub-registrar or registrar of societiesIf it applies
  • 12A and 80G registrationIncome Tax Department (12A / 80G)If it applies
  • FCRA registrationMinistry of Home Affairs (FCRA 2010)If it applies
  • Boiler registration and certificateState Boiler Inspectorate (Boilers Act 2025)If it applies
  • Factory licenceState factories departmentIf it applies
  • Fire NOCState fire and emergency servicesIf it applies
  • Pollution consent (CTO)State Pollution Control BoardIf it applies
  • PF registration (EPFO)EPFO (Employees' Provident Fund Organisation)
  • ESI registration (ESIC)ESIC (Employees' State Insurance Corporation)

Your people

The people who run it, each with their own login

Each person sees the screens and reminders for the work they do.

Kitchen managerRuns the kitchen, deals with the district PM POSHAN officer, signs claims.
Production supervisorQuantities, cooking, quality, temperatures, samples.
CookCooking in cauldrons and kettles, cutting and cleaning.
Stores keeperGrain lifting and stock, issue to kitchen, supplier receipts.
Route driverDelivers vessels to schools, brings back vessels and meal counts.
Accounts personClaims, utilisation certificates, supplier payments, donor reports.

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 mid-day meal central kitchen?

Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Mid-day meal central kitchen". 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.

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