If you’re here, chances are you’re building—or fixing—a food business.
Maybe you’re an investor planning to open your first café, bar, or cloud kitchen.
Maybe you already run a restaurant, and something just feels… off.
Or maybe you’re staring at your P&L thinking, “I swear we were supposed to be profitable by now.”
Either way — you’re looking for answers.
Not a full-time partner. Not a project manager. Not a motivational quote.
Just someone who knows this industry, has seen enough of it, and can tell you what’s worth fixing (and what’s worth letting go).
That’s us. We’re Half a Bawa.
So, what do we actually do?
We’re strategic F&B consultants.
Not coaches. Not managers. Not your future COO.
We bring an external, seasoned point of view to your business — backed by real experience across restaurants, cafés, bars, and kitchens.
We come in, assess the situation, map the gaps, and hand you a clear game plan.
Then? We leave.
(Unless you want us for something else. Then we come back. Briefly.)
Our two favourite types of clients:
1. F&B Investors starting from scratch
You’ve got the capital. You want to open a café, bar, or restaurant. But you don’t want to wing it — or spend the next 6 months firefighting.
We set up the entire thing for you:
- Concept development
- Menu & bar programming
- Kitchen and layout planning
- Vendor selection
- Hiring key staff
- SOPs & training decks
- Pre-opening playbook
We plug in, build it out, hand it over.
You get a tight, well-designed F&B business that’s ready to launch — minus the rookie mistakes.
2. Existing brands needing point solutions
Already running something, but need help with one or two specific things?
That’s our jam too.
We’ve helped people with:
- Menu redesign and engineering
- Beverage Programming
- Layout feedback (before you break a wall)
- Staff SOPs and service training
- Positioning & brand story
- Growth strategy
No need for a 6-month retainer. Just real solutions, delivered fast.
What makes us different?
We’ll keep it simple:
● We don’t want to run your restaurant
We’re not here to take over ops. We’re not in your WhatsApp at 1 AM. We don’t want to be.
● We tell you what others won’t
We’re honest. If your menu sucks, we’ll say it. If your outlet location is a bad call, we’ll explain why. No fluff. No fear.
● We’ve done this, across formats
From cloud kitchens to third-wave cafés, fine dines to pubs — we’ve built, fixed, and restructured brands across India and abroad.
● We don’t overstay our welcome
This isn’t a subscription. It’s strategic intervention. We help. We hand over. We leave. (Professionally.)
What we don’t do
- We don’t manage your staff.
- We don’t run your ops.
- We don’t sit on daily calls.
- We don’t install your POS or negotiate with your fish vendor.
- We don’t build your social media calendar.
Plenty of people do that.
Hire us when you want the big-picture sorted.
A few outcomes we’ve quietly helped create
- A new café brand set up from scratch, launched under budget, and profitable within 3 months
- A menu revamp that doubled margins without changing the chef
- A high-footfall outlet that finally aligned layout with service flow (goodbye bottlenecks)
- A chaotic team that now runs on SOPs even when the founder is on vacation
(And no, we’re not naming names. But our WhatsApp is full of thank-you notes.)
Where we work
We’ve worked in Hyderabad, and Delhi — and with a few overseas brands too.
We’ve built and advised:
- Coffee bars
- Cloud kitchens
- Casual diners
- Energy pubs
- Fine dines
- Third-wave cafés
We’re not tied to one format. We’re tied to quality.
Who we’re really for
You should call us if:
- You’re investing in a new F&B concept and want to do it right
- You’re scaling up and want systems that won’t collapse with the second outlet
- You’ve hit a ceiling and want to know what’s holding you back
- You want clear, honest feedback and fast, focused solutions
- You want consulting, not co-dependency
How we work
Step 1: We talk
You tell us what’s up. We ask questions you didn’t expect. You start seeing the real problem.
Step 2: We assess
We dig in — menu, layout, ops, numbers, guest experience. Whatever’s relevant.
Step 3: We deliver
We give you a plan: what to fix, what to build, what to stop worrying about.
Step 4: We move on (unless there’s more to do)
We don’t drag things out. You get a sharp intervention. Then you execute. And win.
Final word
If you’re looking for someone to run your ops, manage your calendar, or hold hands for six months — that’s not us.
But if you’re ready to:
- Build something sharp from scratch
- Re-align a business that’s drifting
- Focus, grow, and make better calls
Then we should talk.
Half a Bawa is your outside brain — brought in just long enough to reset the game.
Let’s build smart. Then let you run with it.
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Or just message us and say “chai?”