Kurry Up is the leader in Indian street food. This concept of traditional spicy but not spicy “Kurry” dishes optimized for fast food “Up” is being launched as a franchise with a goal of 10 franchisees in 2024. Philippe Pillet, Deputy CEO and the Kurry Up team, have just structured the concept, they share with us their method for building a rapidly scalable network and how Inpulse intervenes in this process.
NETWORK
branches in Paris
OBJECTIVE 2024
franchises throughout France
OBJECTIVE 2028
Restaurants in France
“Our concept is also based on the opportunity to operate in spaces with limited surface area, Inpulse allows us very precise inventory management.”
Philippe Pillet
Deputy General Manager
Kurry Up, a network of 5 restaurants, chose Inpulse to standardize its procurement processes and structure its network of 5 branches and future franchisees.
With 30 years of experience at Quick, Burger King and Pitaya, Philippe Pillet, Deputy CEO and the Kurry Up team structured the concept to prepare for the franchise launch. For us, he discusses the key steps required to build a fast-food network that can be quickly scaled up:
“We are leaders in Indian street food, we aim for 80 establishments in France by 2028, it will be gradual with a first level of 10 franchisees in 2024.”
“To prepare for the launch of the franchise, I set up several key processes in our branches: compliance with an architectural charter or concept store, industrialization of sauces, choice of equipment to maximize operational performance and minimize energy consumption, training employees to master know-how...
The restaurants worked in a traditional way, they made their own recipes, there were different dishes in the establishments. We standardized and designed the Recipe cards for it to work with team members who are not experts, source the ingredients for the network. Set everything up for Duplicate the concept.”
The strengths of the Kurry Up concept are numerous: we have products that are perfectly adapted to the taste of French people, a strong customer experience with homemade naans in front of customers. The concept is easy to operate by versatile employees, our cooking methods do not require a great deal of extraction, which facilitates the search for premises and therefore the opportunities for franchise development.”
“The human contact and support played a decisive role in choosing Inpulse. It is essential to offer franchisees an innovative tool and that there is a team behind it to allow us to make the best use of all the functionalities.
We now have easy access to theoretical and real material cost, at the loss rate, and we facilitate the inventories, which is crucial for good stock management. What particularly appealed to me was business forecasting. In this month of July, it's interesting, we can see strongly The impact of the weather in Paris on the sales of certain dishes.
Inpulse is a great help to us to avoid losses and ruptures especially on Friday and Monday sales, which are quite random, it was essential for us to help managers with sales forecasts for order the right quantity with our suppliers. Moreover, our concept is also based on the opportunity to operate in limited surface areas, we need to have very precise inventory management, which Inpulse allows us to achieve thanks to artificial intelligence.”
“This will allow franchisees to quickly master inventory management, avoid wet finger orders... andoptimize storage space and cash flow management. Franchisees are committed to 7 years, they need to measure their profitability, with Inpulse, each franchisee will be able to Analyze your margine, its evolution and sPosition yourself in relation to other franchisees.
With Inpulse, we provide the best tool for supplying franchisees. Our objective is for them to reach the material cost of our branches in a few weeks. They will quickly learn the tool to place the right supplier orders. We will be able to centralize the comparison of the performances of establishments, analyze losses, transmit best practices and support them so that they perform at their best.
“We want to avoid food waste as much as possible, Inpulse allows a adequate storage which limits losses and therefore unnecessary costs.”
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“Human contact and support played a decisive role when I chose Inpulse. It is essential to offer franchisees an innovative tool and that there is a team behind them to support us.”
Philippe Pillet
Deputy General Manager