India, March 3 -- With nearly 50,000 joints across organised and unorganised formats, India's $27.80 Bn quick service restaurant (QSR) industry is sizzling at 9.25% to reach $47.28 Bn by 2031. As the industry scales, reducing food waste without hurting margins or customer satisfaction remains a key challenge.

QSRs worldwide typically waste 4% to 10% of the food they purchase before it reaches the table. Studies show that prep waste - ingredients wasted in peeling, trimming, batching, mis-estimation of demand, spoilage, and quality discards - is the single-largest contributor to food waste in QSR kitchens.

Delhi-NCR-based agri-food supply chain startup Fambo saw business opportunities in this faultline. Akshay Tripathi and Sushant Kumar ...