Baba Ji Talagang is a traditional Pakistani dhaba in Talagang on a 4-kanal plot off the N-80 highway. We replaced paper books and shouted orders with a custom system covering every part of daily operations: waiter POS, kitchen display, paisa-accurate billing with printable Urdu receipts, owner dashboard live on the phone, cash shifts with Z-report, daily expenses, inventory + waste, and a Urdu-first interface across kitchen and receipts. No subscription. No lock-in.
Baba Ji Talagang is a Punjab roadside dhaba — a 4-kanal plot off the N-80 highway in Talagang, serving daily diners with traditional Pakistani food. Bookkeeping was a physical copy register; cash close at end of night took hours; inventory leakage was a feeling, not a number; the owner couldn't leave the till without losing visibility on the day.
The brief was the whole job — not just orders, but the books, the cash close, the inventory, all of it. Vendor quotes in Pakistan tend to be either absurdly expensive enterprise ERPs or shops that won't survive a year of support. We built it instead.
Daily cash close had to take minutes, not hours. Expected vs counted cash had to compute automatically. Z-report had to print on the same 80mm thermal paper the dhaba already uses.
Stock items, suppliers, recipes, waste — simple enough for staff to log a five-second waste entry from a tablet, detailed enough for the owner to see low-stock and waste-this-week on his phone.
Kitchen tickets, owner dashboard, printable receipts — bilingual, with Urdu primary where the staff lives in Urdu. Custom Nastaliq font wired through the layout, not a translation pass.
Waiter POS on an Android tablet, kitchen display screen, paisa-accurate billing with tax. Realtime sync via Socket.IO so every surface updates the moment something changes.
Cash shifts (open / close with expected vs counted), daily expenses by category, inventory with stock items + suppliers + recipes + waste log. Owner dashboard ties it together with a net-cash tile and shift banner.
Nastaliq font loaded once at the layout level. Menu items carry a nameUrdu field rendered everywhere — kitchen tickets, owner dashboard, printable receipts.
Expo / React Native waiter client. Single source of truth on design tokens. Takes and closes orders. Gated by shift state via socket events.
Every dish carries an English label and a Nastaliq Urdu name — Chai / چائے, Chicken Karahi / چکن کڑاہی, Chicken Biryani / چکن بریانی. The same record renders on the kitchen ticket, the owner dashboard, the printable receipt. Availability toggles per dish, no separate locale files.
Live KPIs, shift banner with expected drawer total, net cash tile (revenue minus expenses), inventory pulse showing low-stock count, active tables, recent orders, top dishes, range reports with day-over-day deltas, CSV export for the accountant.
Owner enters opening float in the morning. System tracks paid orders and shift-tied expenses. At close, owner counts cash; system computes expected vs counted and shows the variance — including the negative ones. Z-report prints at 80mm thermal width.
A complete dhaba operating system is now live at Baba Ji Talagang — orders, kitchen, billing, cash shifts, expenses, inventory, and Urdu-first receipts in one cohesive product the owner pays nothing monthly to use.
We're in the early-adoption window now. The harder numbers — minutes saved on cash close, order errors prevented, waste reduction — land after a few weeks of daily use. The system is built, deployed, and running every day.
We build the same kind of system for independent restaurants and small hotels worldwide — with AI layered on for new overseas builds.
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