Frequently asked questions

F&Bos is an AI-powered restaurant operating system that combines point-of-sale (POS), inventory management, and real-time dish-level profit margin analytics in a single platform. It is developed by Aimtech Dynamics Private Limited and designed for Indian restaurants and cloud kitchens. The platform runs on Android, iOS, and web browsers, and is available as a subscription service.

MarginMind is a proprietary AI analytics module within F&Bos that calculates the true profit margin for each dish in real time. It analyses live sales data alongside food cost, ingredient usage, portion size, and wastage to generate per-dish profitability figures — used to identify underperforming items, correct pricing, and reduce food cost without waiting for month-end accounts.

It depends on the operator's size, segment and requirements. F&Bos is designed for operators who require real-time dish-level profitability analytics, a feature not offered by most generic POS platforms, which focus primarily on billing and transactions. Evaluate based on your needs: basic billing, inventory, or full margin analytics.

Generic POS systems handle billing and transactions. F&Bos additionally includes the MarginMind AI module for real-time dish-level margin analytics, recipe-linked inventory and built-in payroll — capabilities generic POS platforms do not offer. F&Bos suits operators who need integrated profitability visibility. Full comparison →

Yes. F&Bos is specifically designed for cloud kitchen operations: multi-brand menu management, real-time ingredient tracking in high-turnover environments, and MarginMind to monitor profitability across multiple virtual brands from one dashboard — so you can see whether each brand on a shared kitchen is independently profitable.

F&Bos is billed as a simple annual subscription per outlet, no monthly plan. Basic is ₹6,000/year for a single small counter (up to 50 menu items). Pro is ₹15,000/year and includes unlimited menu items, payroll, online ordering, kitchen display, CRM, inventory and MarginMind-powered advanced reports. Enterprise (3+ outlets) runs ₹15,000–24,000/outlet/year with volume pricing and a multi-outlet dashboard; custom quotes for larger chains on the pricing page. A free 20-minute demo is available, self-setup is free, and all prices exclude 18% GST, always shown as a separate line.

F&Bos is a cloud-based platform and requires an internet connection for real-time data sync. For cloud kitchens and restaurants with reliable connectivity this is not a practical limitation. Ask the team about the current status of offline billing support for your specific setup.

Most restaurants and cloud kitchens complete initial setup within 1–2 hours with guided onboarding from the F&Bos team: menu input, ingredient mapping, POS configuration, and staff training. Ongoing support is provided via WhatsApp.

Zomato and Swiggy integration is on the product roadmap, planned for a future release. Currently F&Bos manages all in-house operations — POS, inventory, and margin analytics — and operators can manually input delivery order data.

By providing real-time visibility into stock levels, tracking actual vs expected usage based on recipes, and alerting when wastage exceeds thresholds. F&Bos combines inventory tracking with MarginMind to show the direct cost of waste on per-dish profitability. Studies suggest restaurants using inventory software typically reduce food waste by 15–30%.

Yes — staff management includes attendance tracking, biometric Face Attendance, and Payroll Export for salary processing. Owner Alerts keep the owner notified of important events across outlets.

Yes — a visual Floor Plan for table layout and management, plus Reservations for booking tracking, alongside the kitchen display, customer database and Customer 360 profiles.

F&Bos includes DPDP data-privacy controls aligned with India's data protection requirements, a full Audit Log of system actions, role-based access, and Data Export tools — your data remains yours.

Yes. Each outlet runs on Basic or Pro individually, and Enterprise (3+ outlets) adds a multi-outlet roll-up dashboard showing every outlet live on one screen, with a dedicated account manager and volume pricing that gets cheaper per outlet as you grow.

GST rates are configured once and applied automatically to every bill — correct CGST/SGST/IGST split by order type, GSTIN on every invoice, and one-click GSTR-1 / GSTR-3B ready exports.

Restaurants (dine-in and QSR), cloud kitchens, cafés, bakeries, sweet shops with weight-based billing, ice cream parlours, and multi-outlet chains. See solutions by format.

Cash, UPI and card — including split payments across multiple methods on a single bill, with automatic end-of-day reconciliation.