Krish Chimakurthy

Krish Chimakurthy is the founder of OotaOS (OOTAOS PLATFORM SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED, Bengaluru) and writes about restaurant technology from the inside of building it.

OotaOS is a restaurant operating system: QR ordering, a kitchen display that tracks every dish through preparing and ready, tables, waitlist and reservations, menu management, customer loyalty, payments and reporting. Building it means working through the parts of restaurant software that rarely make it into a feature list — how a bill has to freeze its own tax at the moment it is raised rather than recalculate it later, why a per-item kitchen state beats a per-order one on a real pass, what a UPI payment looks like when it is matched against a bank SMS, and how the same product has to change shape between ten markets that each have their own tax label, tenders and payment rails.

The articles under this byline come out of that work. Where a piece explains an operating metric — food cost percentage, prime cost, break-even covers, RevPASH — the arithmetic behind the calculator on the page is the same arithmetic the platform uses, and every worked example is one you can reproduce with the numbers shown.

Every article here follows the editorial methodology: claims about OotaOS features are checked against the platform's own feature register before publication, changing facts carry sources with the date they were last checked, and each article declares the cadence on which it is reviewed. Anything touching tax, payments, law or compliance is held back from publication until a named human reviewer has read it — reviewers are never invented — and every article shows the date it was last modified.