Guides
Running a cafe — the practical bits.
Short, honest guides for cafe and restaurant owners in Nepal — from kitchen tickets to menu pricing — written from how cafes actually run.
Using TableSathi
Your first day on TableSathi
A screen-by-screen walkthrough for a new cafe: add your menu and tables, create staff accounts, take the first order, work the kitchen screen and settle a bill.
Running a cafe
Choosing software · 8 minRestaurant POS in Nepal comparedTen Nepali restaurant and cafe POS systems side by side — what each publishes as its price, which plan includes inventory, and which ones actually say they file to CBMS. Every figure is from the vendor’s own website, with the date we checked it.Read guide →Operations · 6 minWhat is a KOT?A KOT — kitchen order ticket — is the slip that tells the kitchen what to cook. Here is what it means, how it differs from a bill, and why most cafes move from handwritten chits to printed or on-screen tickets.Read guide →Costs & pricing · 8 minMenu pricing & food costGood menu prices start with one number: what each dish actually costs to make. Here is how to work out your cost per plate, set a sensible food-cost percentage, and avoid the pricing mistakes that quietly eat your margin.Read guide →Menu · 7 minQR menu vs printed menuA QR menu and a printed menu solve the same job in different ways. Here is an honest comparison — cost, upkeep, and guest experience — so you can decide what fits your cafe, and how a QR menu actually works.Read guide →Costs & pricing · 7 minWhat billing software costsMost cafe and restaurant systems in Nepal run between Rs 6,000 and Rs 60,000 a year, and the spread has less to do with quality than with how much of the product each vendor puts behind a higher tier. Here is what the published prices actually are, and what they leave out.Read guide →Operations · 6 minKOT system in NepalAlmost every restaurant in Nepal already runs a KOT system — usually a pink carbon pad and a waiter walking it to the kitchen. Here is how the paper version works, where it leaks money, and what a printed or on-screen KOT system changes.Read guide →Choosing software · 6 minTableSathi vs RestroXRestroX is the best-known restaurant software in Nepal; TableSathi is the one built around IRD filing, printing that just works, and the phone in your waiter’s hand. Here is how they compare on price, printing, IRD and CBMS, customers and support — from both companies’ published pages.Read guide →IRD & tax · 6 minCBMS & e-billing limitsWho has to connect to CBMS, who has to use IRD-approved billing software, and when a restaurant has to register for VAT — each figure with the notice it comes from, and a plain note where only news reports back it.Read guide →