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Dangerous Curves Ahead The Indian restaurant market is booming. Foreign restaurant companies like Domino's and McDonald's are taking part in a $48 billion market explosion. This enormous market expansion has been ignited by a variety of factors. The Indian population has grown to 1.2 billion and has shifted from a more rural demographic to an increasingly dense urban concentration. The newly urbanized Indian consumer is a younger double-income-earner with less time, traveling internationally and exposed to a wide variety of Indian and international concepts and cuisines. 34% of the Indian urban population eats out more than once a week, with 12% eating out daily. Restaurant company management hears the same cry in every boardroom around the world. "Let's go! We don't want to be left behind. India is another China. We must be part of this boom. What are you waiting for?" CAUTION! DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD! This is not the West. This is India. What will the Rupee buy tomorrow? Will the courts enforce my franchise agreement? Can I get fresh fruits and vegetables for my menu? Will the courts enforce my franchise agreement? How can I ensure my building plans will comply with local regulations? Maybe...yes. Maybe...no. Maybe...maybe. Welcome to the Indian sub-continent. There are many curves in the road. A foreign business plan must be converted into an Indian business plan to navigate these curves. Only an Indian insider who has been down a curvy Indian road can foresee the curves ahead. 1. A scarcity of talent. The attrition rate in the Indian restaurant industry approaches 25%. This has a dramatic impact on employee efficiency by eroding consumer loyalty and creating a vacuum in middle management. With more employees required to do the same job, the cost of wages soars. When the economic growth rate exceeds 5%, new industries raid employee pools by offering easier jobs for more pay. The shortage of trained employees is staggering and not likely to improve in the near term as the economy expands at such a rapid rate.   2. Inconsistent availability and fluctuating costs of raw materials. The availability of standardized products required by food chains is lacking. Commodities, fruits and vegetables are only available locally and seasonally. Import duties drive commodity prices even higher. They vary from 0% to 150% with an average duty rate of 11.9%. Traditional menu planning and pricing is impossible for foreign companies without a restaurant consultant in India who understands the hidden costs behind importing food ingredients.   3. Limited outsourcing. In India, the supply chain is poorly integrated, posing challenges at each step. Critical linkages like reefer transport and on farm infrastructure are almost non-existent. Despite the obvious need for improvement and new government initiatives to stimulate growth, private investment is in short supply. Until shipping and handling catches up with processing, reliability of product for menu creation will remain problematic.   4. Expensive real estate. The urban population in India has grown from 79 million in 1961 to 350 million in 2010 and is estimated to exceed 590 million by 2030. This is perhaps the most dramatic mass migration within a single country the world has ever seen. Housing and commercial construction struggles to keep pace. Restaurant rents on High Street or in a mall in Mumbai, for example, are $2,004 for 300 square feet. A 2,500 sq. ft. restaurant property would command $10,000/month plus $2,200 for utilities. Although these statistics approximate other major cities in the developed West, they do not tell the whole story. Many neighborhoods are in the process of renewal and present a mixed message to potential customers. Value in Indian real estate can be highly questionable. The real estate factor requires an expert to assess value in this fluid market.   5. Unclear and non-transparent licensing issues. Another unforeseen curve in the road for western restaurant companies is obtaining all the relevant permits to open a restaurant. Unscheduled and unforeseen costs for required licenses from the local municipal corporations have gone up by 100%. A typical restaurant license serving alcohol should not cost more than 3.5 lacs or $5,600. But today, with additional unscheduled expenses, it costs approximately $33,600. A seasoned hospitality consultant can negotiate such fees and work diligently through his network to minimize their impact.   6. Insufficient franchising guidelines and laws to protect the franchisor and franchisee. Here's a curve I know you didn't see coming. There are no Indian laws governing franchising. The franchising contract is made from excerpts of various laws such as competition laws, intellectual property laws, consumer protection laws and labor laws. 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VELKOPOPOVICKY KOZEL - Babcock's Dinner Party I have wasted a good part of my adult life listening to one Thomas P. Babcock Esq. explain the difference between a drinkable pint and a great beer. For the past ten years, Tom and I have met every night after work at the Cambridge on Charing Cross Road and enjoyed a pint and a bite to eat before heading home to family. Tom loves beer. He REALLY loves beer. He has even applied to be admitted to the British Guild of Beer Writers. "Tonight, I have a special surprise for you," he began before I could get my umbrella down and stow my Macintosh. He took a half-step back from the bar and stared at a glass of dark beer sitting alone on the bar in front of him. "This, my friend, is a true nectar," he announced with theatrical flair. "As you know, I have spent my entire life searching for ale perfection. I have come close many times, have I not?" he asked with a touch of gravitas. "I imagine," I muttered, staring at the glass of dark beer that was obviously the object of Tom's new affection. "Please allow, therefore, T.Q. Babcock, Esq. to introduce VELKOPOPOVICKY KOZEL CERNY," he said with a sweeping gesture of his arm and a bow to the lonely glass of beer sitting on the bar. "This one is special," he said picking up the glass in his left hand, covering the glass with his right, swirling the beer gently, then bringing the glass close to his nose to test the aroma. "Perfect," he said. "I am about to buy you a glass of Kozel from the Czech Republic. I know. I know. It's not a British beer. But wait till you taste it. This beer has little hints of bitterness from hops, yet retains the caramel sweetness of the barley sugar. These Czech brewers are doing something that no one else does. Just taste this beer," he invited while signaling the bartender to bring another. Ten days later, Tom Babcock and I were heading south out of Prague on Rte. 1 in the Central Bohemian District of the Czech Republic toward the town of Velke Popovice, the home of the Kozel Brewery. As insane as this was, I was glad to be driving in the summer sunshine through the beautiful rolling fields of barley and wheat that glided gently past on either side of the highway. Rivers and streams, lakes and springs refreshed this country and somehow made you feel clean as you left the city behind. The Babcock party was booked for a private "Follow the Goat" tour of the Kozel Brewery. I'm not sure what Tom presented as our credentials, but the old guide treated us like visiting royalty, and Tom showed no reluctance for acting the part. "No secrets," our guide muttered under his breath as he led us to the masher. "You will know how we make our wonderful beer from grain to glass. This is where it all begins. The crushed malt is added to the hot liquor here in this tank." "Liquor?" I asked. "You add malt to liquor?" "In brewing, water is referred to as 'liquor'...never, 'water.' 'Water' is for washing. 'Liquor' is for brewing," the guide explained. "Our water is always, and only, from the purest local springs. This is one of the secret ingredients that make our Kozel Beer No. 1 in the world." "What exactly is malt?" Tom asked as if he already knew, but I would need further education. "Malt is barley that has germinated, then it is toasted," the guide explained to me, with Tom nodding knowingly in the background. "The liquor (Bohemian natural spring water) gradually extracts the sugar, the colours and flavours from the barley making what is called sweet wort. It is brought to a boil in these coppers. Then we add the hops." "Hops," Tom said knowingly, glancing from me to the hops the guide was holding. "Hops are the thing," he asserted pointing at them. "Both the barley and the Saaz hops are grown right here in this region so we are assured the finest quality. The hops add bitterness and balance the sweetness of the wort. Later we add whole flowerhops for aroma." We then travelled to the cold side of the plant where the fermentation rooms were located. "In these stainless tanks we add yeast to the hopped wort and wait at least seven days for the yeast to turn the sugars to alcohol and release naturally occurring carbon dioxide into the beer. The beer is then transferred to the lager tanks where it develops delicacy and balanced taste. The barley malt gives the beer caramel sweetness and the hops add a touch of bitterness. Our second addition of exotic hops adds a fruity flavour and a citrus aroma that creates our signature grassy finish." After work the following Monday, Tom extended an unusual invitation to dine at his flat and have a ceremonial taste of Velkopopovicky Kozel Cerny. "For our inaugural meal, I was able to order theKozel from Halusky.co.uk, the Czech importer on the Upper Richmond Rd.," he announced. "Tonight, the Kozel will be complimented with traditional Czech pickled sausages with onion, meat brawn, and Spiss Frankfurters all imported from the Czech Republic by Halusky.co.uk. 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