Case study · The Bhukkad Café
Eight years of The Bhukkad Café, moved to delEat in a day.
On 23 September 2026 we moved The Bhukkad Café’s menu, its recipes and its sales history back to January 2018 from its previous UAE cloud POS into delEat, in one migration window. Its outlets have not switched over yet: this page is about the move, and what preparing it taught us. The Bhukkad Café is our own group’s restaurant brand.
The restaurant and the move
What moved, and where things stand.
Every figure here comes from the move itself. Sales are left out on purpose.
- The restaurant
- The Bhukkad Café, an Indian restaurant brand in the UAE. One outlet is the brand’s own; the others are franchised, each under its own company.
- The relationship
- The same group. The Bhukkad Café is The Hungry Inc.’s own restaurant brand. This page is about our own restaurants, and says so.
- Status
- Data moved; outlets not switched yet. No Bhukkad outlet sells on delEat yet. We will update this page when the first one does.
- Moved from
- Its previous UAE cloud POS, in one migration window on 23 September 2026: the menu that morning, the rest of the data that night.
- History kept
- Sales history back to January 2018, so the first report after the switch starts full.
- Menu
- 228 items created and 342 updated in the morning import.
- Recipes
- 186 recipes costed from the head chef’s recipe manual, so food cost follows the kitchen’s own specifications.
- Photos and tags
- 155 dish photos and 48 vegetarian tags added in October.
- Per outlet
- 41 shisha items set as not sold at the outlet that does not serve shisha, while the menu stays whole for outlets that do.
The migration
One day, two windows.
What we learned
Five things preparing the switch taught us.
Each one is fixed in the product for every restaurant that moves after The Bhukkad Café.
- Entities
- Every outlet is its own company. The first data setup put every outlet under one outlet’s TRN. delEat now keeps a legal entity and TRN per outlet, and will not sell at an outlet until its own TRN is accepted.
- Availability
- Availability is stated, not assumed. The imported menu marked every item available everywhere, which would have put shisha on menus that do not sell it. The move now sets availability item by item, for every channel.
- Business day
- Late service crosses midnight. Testing showed “today” following the server’s clock. It now follows the outlet’s business day and time zone, kitchen safety logs included. Fixed 16 and 17 October.
- Food cost
- Food cost comes from the kitchen. Recipe costs now come from the head chef’s manual, and a renamed dish keeps its cost history. Fixed 5 October.
- Printing
- Kitchen tickets need network printers. Testing showed tickets not reaching printers on the network. Print Agent 1.3.0 added them on 18 October.
Questions
The questions people ask first.
Has The Bhukkad Café moved to delEat?
Its data has. The menu, recipes and sales history back to January 2018 moved into delEat on 23 September 2026. Its outlets have not started selling on delEat yet.
How long does moving the data to delEat take?
The Bhukkad Café’s move took one window: the menu in the morning and the rest of the data that night. Our team does the move for you as part of onboarding.
Does sales history come across?
Yes. The Bhukkad Café’s sales history was imported back to January 2018.
Is The Bhukkad Café a paid customer?
No. The Bhukkad Café belongs to the same group as delEat. We say so on this page because a case study should.
Pricing
One price per outlet. No cut of your sales.
Plans from AED 149 per outlet per month on a 2-year term. Thirty days free, no card.
See pricingThirty days free
Bring your menu and your history with you.
No card. Thirty days free, then from AED 149 per outlet a month on a two-year term, 169 billed yearly or 199 monthly.