Practice Areas 

F&B Consulting 

From cloud kitchens to large scale industrial operations — Tunefork has been directly involved in approximately 15 restaurant, kitchen and catering projects. Wrong kitchen layout or cost structure means daily losses, not one-time ones. We diagnose before we recommend.

F&B Business Development 

Your F&B business works — but the ceiling is closer than you think. We help restaurants, cloud kitchens and food businesses scale through revenue strategy, operational systems and building businesses that work without the owner doing everything.

International Trade & Market Entry 

International brands entering India underestimate the regulatory complexity or miss South India entirely. Tunefork brings senior level trade body connections across Asia and Europe — and 25 years of South India F&B operator relationships — to get your brand in market the right way.

Events & Food Solutions

 Outdoor and event catering companies have the capability but often lack a consistent pipeline of corporate orders. Tunefork uses its corporate connections to source confirmed event briefs and channel them to the right catering partners — turning existing capability into confirmed revenue.

 F&B Strategy & Investment Advisory 

Banks reject underprepared plans. Investors pass on businesses that cannot show scalable unit economics. Tunefork works both sides of the table — preparing your business for investment and making the right introductions to HNIs, angels and family offices across South India.

Managed Tuck Shop 

Setting up and managing micro cafeterias and tuck shops for corporates — covering vendor selection, food cost management, operations setup and daily oversight. Everything handled. Zero distraction for your team.

"First session free — 90 minute diagnostic" 

 The only F&B advisor who understands both the kitchen and the boardroom" with a kitchen image 

 The F&B Consulting Journey 

THE F&B CONSULTING JOURNEY — CONCEPT TO GRAND OPENING

What does a TuneFork F&B consulting engagement actually look like?

Every engagement starts with a business plan that serves as the master reference document — every cost locked, every number calculated, every assumption tested against reality. Only then comes project planning, site investigation, legal groundwork and cost estimates — so by the time the first brick is laid, the business model is already stress-tested. From systems planning through to grand opening, TuneFork stays in the room at every stage.

Who do you work with across the journey?

Everyone the project demands. Architects, civil contractors, equipment suppliers, interior designers, software vendors, licensing authorities, recruitment teams and investors. The value TuneFork brings is not just knowing each of these disciplines — it is knowing how every decision in one area directly impacts the others. We coordinate across all of them so nothing falls through the gap between stages, and the client never has to chase ten different people for one answer.

What does a successful engagement look like?

A South India cloud kitchen chain — grew from ₹36 Lakhs to ₹3 Crores in annual revenue in three years, scaling to 10 outlets through menu repositioning, operational restructuring and scalable systems. A government facility internationally — 40,000 sq ft designed from scratch to a European standard, delivering 10,000 meals a day. A hospital group across four cities — kitchens designed and set up from scratch, every recipe individually costed, food costs reduced by 15% and a standardised operations manual created so the entire F&B function ran without burdening hospital management. A leading eye care hospital — full kitchen design, equipment specification and operational handover delivered to an institution with no prior internal F&B capability.

The grand opening is not the end. It is where the work proves itself.