Your customers
- Passers-by
- Office workers and students
- Families in the evening
- Regulars on short credit
Hotels, restaurants and travel · Shops and showrooms
MatruOS for a street food cart
Set up the way a street food cart runs: cooked food sold by the plate on the street; parcels; small event orders. 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 street food cart deals with today, and what MatruOS sets up for it
Today
Does not know the real cost per plate as potato, onion and oil prices swing. Prepared chana, potato and pani thrown away at night.
In MatruOS
MatruOS sets up 9 routines, 1 workflow, 3 registers and 4 licences for a street food cart, 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.
- Mandi and kirana
- vendor (home prep and cart)
- customer
Your suppliers
- Wholesale vegetable market
- Kirana for oil and masala
- Pav and puri supplier
- Commercial LPG distributor
- Disposable plate supplier
Credit and cash
Buys vegetables and oil in cash daily; pav and puris on weekly credit; sells for cash and UPI
Tonight's takings buy tomorrow's ingredients; weekly pav settlement; monthly loan EMI and spot fee
Your screens use your words
OrderPlateItemPlateInvoiceBillproductDishSupplierWala
How it works
How MatruOS is set up for a street food cart
Set-up takes a few minutes. After that, you change only what is different in your business.
- Describe the business in one lineFor example "Street food cart", typed when you sign up.
- Recognised as a street food cartRoutines, 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 street food cart
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.
Suggests tomorrow's buying and prep quantity from the weekday, weather, festivals and what was thrown away
Works it out and shows you
Builds a daily and monthly sales statement from UPI and cash entries, per cart, ready to show a bank or for the SVANidhi top-up
Asks you before sending
Works out cost per plate each week and warns when margin falls below target; suggests a price or portion change
Works it out and shows you
Reminds 3 days before EMI, fee and gas dates and 30 days before renewals; keeps receipt photos
Works it out and shows you
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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
8:00 amMorning market purchase
- 1Buy as per the prep plan; check potato and onion rates
- 2Note cash spent in the khata
10:00 amHome prep
- 1Boil and mash potatoes; cook chana; grind chutneys
- 2Pani for pani puri made with RO or boiled water and kept covered
3:30 pmCart set-up at the spot
- 1Gas hose and regulator checked; cylinder upright
- 2Drinking water can, covered food boxes, waste bin, gloves or tongs in place
10:30 pmNight close and cash count
- 1Count cash; read UPI total from the app
- 2Note what was thrown away
- 3Keep tomorrow's purchase money aside
Every week
MonWeekly pav and puri settlement
- 1Match supplier's chit with own count; pay in cash or UPI
SunWeekly cost per plate check
- 1Cost of potatoes, oil, puris and gas for the week against plates sold
- 2Decide whether to change price or portion
Every month
5thLoan EMI, spot fee and gas
- 1Pay SVANidhi or SHG EMI; keep the receipt
- 2Pay spot or vending fee; book next gas cylinder
Every year
MarFSSAI registration and vending certificate renewal
- 1Renew FSSAI basic registration if it lapses this year
- 2Renew vending certificate or ID with the town vending committee
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.
Party or wedding stall order
- 1Plates and menu agreed
- 2Advance takenNeeds approval
- 3Extra prep at home
- 4Stall served at venue
- 5Balance collected
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.
Daily purchase and sales khata
Pav and puri supplier credit
Loan, fee and papers
Street food hygiene
Safe food and no trouble at inspections
Vending and gas rules
Keep the spot and stay safe
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pani puri plate (6 pieces) | 996331 | 5% |
| Sev puri and dahi puri | 996331 | 5% |
| Aloo tikki and papdi chaat | 996331 | 5% |
| Vada pav | 996331 | 5% |
| Momos plate (steamed or fried) | 996331 | 5% |
| Chole kulche | 996331 | 5% |
| Masala dosa | 996331 | 5% |
| Egg bhurji or omelette pav | 996331 | 5% |
- FSSAI food licence
- Trade licenceIf it applies
- Udyam (MSME) registrationIf it applies
- GST registrationIf it applies
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-cookBuys ingredients, cooks and serves, takes cash and UPI, deals with the municipality and police.
HelperChops and preps at the cart, washes plates, serves, pushes the cart.
Family at homeBoil potatoes and chana, grind chutneys and pani masala, knead dough.
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 street food cart?
Type one line about your business when you sign up, for example "Street food cart". 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 shops and showrooms in hotels, restaurants and travel
Run a street food cart 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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