About Pet Pooja
Starting out in 2011, Petpooja was a food delivery platform for Corporates. Think Zomato or Swiggy, but for bulk corporate orders. With this business model, it achieved a respectable mark in 2 years: serving over 200 corporates by partnering with 300+ restaurants.
But, in the process, they realized that because of the lack of appropriate technology, there were tremendous operational inefficiencies and the restaurant processes were not scalable. A close look at these restaurants’ daily struggles led us to make Petpooja in its current avatar- a coherent Restaurant Management software.
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Mission:
Our mission is to be the go-to Operating System for all F&B retail across the world!
Pricing Model:
Petpooja believes in a standardized and transparent pricing policy. No matter how big or small the restaurant business is, Petpooja’s technology works seamlessly on every scale.
The packages have been optimized to serve the partner restaurants with the best products and services at the most affordable prices.
Standard Package - ₹ 10,000 per outlet, Renewal ₹ 7500 per year
Add-on packs provide a comprehensive add-on package offering all the features & products to take the restaurant management game to the next level.
User Cohorts and their Features
Shortlisting of User Cohort
We would be shortlisting the following user cohort to find the problems faced and the corresponding solutions:
Multicuisine/ independent/ unbranded hotels
Reasons:
The customer data maintained by these restaurants is higher as compared to QSR, Cloud Kitchens, Cafes. The frequency of customer visiting these kind of restaurants is on the higher side as compared to Bars, Fine Dine and Specific Cuisine Restaurants. The order value is higher as 90-95% of the sales happens during lunch/dinner hours. Since they serve variety of food items they have an added advantage of choices for customers over other types. With families being the primary customer of this cohort, the order value is on the higher side as of Cafes or Cloud Kitchens. User Persona:
User Interviews: (Only relevant once added)
Interviewed 3 hotel owners who use Pet Pooja as a service to understand more on the a few questions and their
User Stories:
Based on the above user interview I have written down a few user stories.
As a restaurant owner:
I want to increase the customer satisfaction level, so that they visit my restaurant again. I want to track employee performance, so that I can incentivise good performance. I want the inventory to be managed, so that I do not go out of stock anytime and avoid excess wastage of food. I want to manage the hustle with dine-in and delivery orders, so that I can maximize on satisfying customers. I want to ease the staff management and customer ordering and serving process, so that I can focus on customers. Shortlisting of User Story:
Based on the efficiency scoring the user story which gets shortlisted is:
As a restaurant owner, I want to increase the customer satisfaction level, so that they visit my restaurant again.
Business Metrics and Goals:
Profits = Revenue- Operation costs- Rental Costs
Let’s understand what are the different factors affecting revenue
Revenue = f(customer base, average order value)
Revenue = Average order value per table * # of tables
Operations Costs : Daily costs for activities from inventory to labour to keep the restaurant running.
Customer Base: This consists of people who are returning customers, referred customers and ‘let’s try this restaurant’ customers.
Average order value: This is based on the demographics and the purchasing power of the locality.
Goals:
To improve the revenue we need to atleast do one of the following things:
Increase customer base
Increase the average order value
Convert more customers into loyal customers
Reduce the Operations costs
Solutions:
Based on all the above data:
Use online channels to create awareness Use offline means to create awareness Creative Marketing so that people talk about the restaurant Use local influencer/ food bloggers to talk about the bestseller dishes. Increase the average order value Increase the prices of the menu by small margin Provide discount on orders above a certain value eg: 10% off on orders worth above Rs. 1000. Increase the prices of top selling items. Introduce combos eg: Rice and Dal combos, roti-sabji combos, thali, desert, etc. Convert more customers into loyal customers Introduce a loyalty program Improve on the friction elements which causes customers to not be loyal. Reduce the Operations costs Use technology to eliminate the challenges with operations Improving resource planning We would be shortlisting the solutions based on whether Pet Pooja can accommodate and configure the new solution inside existing system.
Shortlisting Solutions:
Existing ways of doing it/ Remarks
Only one out of the following can be built as a new feature inside Pet Pooja:
Introduce a loyalty program inside Pet Pooja
There are multiple ways to introduce loyalty programs but this will be based on the data available at the Pet Pooja POS.
Pet Pooja App for Customers- The app will be only for customers. It will provide details and lists of restaurants that are registered on Pet Pooja. The restaurants, as well as the customers, will have a count of which restaurants have they visited and how many times. The restaurants will be prompted by Pet Pooja POS to provide the necessary discount at will. This app can be extended to do a lot more. Repeat Visit Reward- Every nth visit of a customer to a restaurant should be given a specific discount or a freebie from the restaurant. The restaurant owner will get notified by the POS to offer the reward according to her/his will. This is a win-win for the customers as well as the restaurants. The visit counts will be kept as separate data in the POS. Reward Points- Every time the customer visits the restaurant there will be some reward points which will be allocated by the POS based on the final bill value to the customer. These reward points can be availed at specific restaurants only.
Solution to write PRD: Repeat Visit Reward
Metrics impacted:
Scope:
Dine-In orders only.