Abhishek Deshpande

Category: Nagpur

  • How to Start Delivery Kitchen – Part 1

    How to Start Delivery Kitchen – Part 1

    Disclaimer: This is all my kida for learning how things go in this Modern world. Please Consult your CA or CS for your queries.

    Little Back Story
    Every time Kartik (My school mate with 10+ Years of experience in Continental foods) came to India, we discussed starting a food venture. We did some research, discussions and his duty calls him back to Bread butter Business. This time, he’s again for some months, and the past few days we are studying some feasible Business model for our Venture.

    Delivery Kitchen is the one we choose, here’s why
    1. One can Start Delivery Kitchen based on Lean Model principles. So No huge Investment to start.
    2. Delivery Partners like Zomato, Swiggy, Uber Eats and Food Panda are providing a great platform to startup. One has to worry less about Acquiring Customers as on Discussion with these Partner Onboarding Executives, and they help you understand the regional scenario. And Optimize the Menu for Better sell.

    What you need to signup at any Online Food Delivery Platform.
    1. Shop Act registration
    Standard Business Disclosure, One can use Maitri Portal from Maharashtra Govt. costs around Aprx. INR 24 /-
    It won’t take more than a day to get a Gumasta (Shop Act Licence)
    Sign up here – https://maitri.mahaonline.gov.in/

    2. FSSAI Licence
    Food Safety and Standardization licence mandate for every food business in India. For Starters, it costs you around Rs. 2000. You can get it done from the Official website. Which is awful, so we got it done from Authorized vendor who charged double to us.

    Thanks to Digital India, Licence was in our Mailbox on Day 3.
    Try your luck at – https://foodlicensing.fssai.gov.in/index.aspx.

    3. PAN & GST Details
    PAN Card is mandated at any online store. If you are not eligible for GST, you can share a self-declaration for same.

    Where to Signup as Delivery Kitchen
    Zomato – https://www.zomato.com/business
    Uber Eats – https://www.ubereats.com/restaurant/signup
    Swiggy – https://www.swiggy.com/partner-with-us/

    What’s ahead for us?

      • Onboarding with Food Delivery Platforms.
      • Understanding the day/night requirements of delivery areas
      • What to cover in Menu that will work in our planned areas.
      • How to keep our cost low.

    I hope I can write about the experience soon enough. If you like to share your journey Feel free to DM me on Twitter or Facebook.

  • Nagpur is turning to be happening place!

    Nagpur is turning to be happening place!

    Nagpur seems to be happening place to me!

    Yes, it’s true if you are Nagpurkar who left the city for work, you remember the city as senior citizen paradise. Nothing “happening” thing happens here.

    Weekends in winter that I remember usually start with Cricket at Tilak Nagar ground or a Morning walk in VRCE, followed by discussions at Dharampeth Coffeehouse (miss this place) / Gokul Vrindavan. Daytime is spent with family or watching some movie or TV Series or some long drive with friends towards the forest or waterside nearby. Evenings mostly ends at Saoji places or trying some different type of food. Combination of some of above activities and it’s pretty much same every time. Whereas in Pune (My Second home), there’s a lot to learn on weekends and many places to discover.

    Past few days were held up with heavy travel plans, travelled around 10 cities in past 40 days. The experience was amazing. I’ll keep this post about Nagpur, not about my travel experience, will publish another post about WordCamp Nashik, WordCamp Ahmedabad & CloudBazaar.

    Returned to the city last weekend, and I’m surprised to see so many activities going in the city. There was CKP Food Festival on last weekend, it was the heavenly place for foodies, around 52 types of CKP delicacies.

    Nagpur Techies Meetup – Kickstarting Your Agile Journey

    Finally, after a decade I met the Duo Sameer and Meghana. Their journey is pretty amazing. They conducted a half-day workshop about Agile methodology. Explaining how Agile software development method can be used to improve the performance of individuals and teams. Right from the roots of Agile Manifesto to Scrum and Kanbans in current scenarios of attending techies. A lot more to learn from them, looking forward to Techies hangout session.

     

    It was well spent Thursday afternoon, YES Thursday afternoon that too with 20+ Techies, Not bad for the change.
    That’s not all, weekend has lot more to offer

    Global Nagpur Summit 2017 – 17th & 18th Nov
    GNS 2017 is a citizen-driven initiative with active support from the City & State Administration, Mayor’s office, political leaders, Business fraternity, Professionals & Non-residential Nagpurkars. Conference for the growth of the city by the people of the city.

    All India Yog Sammelan – 17,18 & 19th Nov 
    National level Yog conference Hosted this year at Nagpur By JSYog. it’s a must-attend conference for yoga practitioners, takes you from various aspects of Yog & lifestyle.

    AOMSI 2017 – 15,16,17 and 18th Nov
    Annual Congress of AOMSI – Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons of India. Its been 3 years working in Clinical Trials domain, the amount of knowledge shared at this conference is unmeasurable. Around 190+ Paper Presentations, 100+ Speakers. This is altogether new level of a conference I’m witnessing, glad this year it is hosted in Nagpur.

    Too many conferences for learning, there are some fun events too.

    Third MotoJoJo Gathering on 18th Evening
    Motojojo gatherings are the best place to spend the evening fill up with Nostalgia of the road & connect with people who love travelling just as much as you. With the Lovely singer-songwriters/musicians who’ll share songs, you’ve never heard before. Along with some super awesome story-tellers & spoken word poets and all of this wrapped in a sense of freedom and love.

    Hackerspace Nagpur’s First Meetup – 18th Afternoon
    Yes! hackerspaces in Nagpur 😉 Good to hear that right?
    Nikhil with his 3-year-old Daughter who goes wow! at the sight of mechanical toys, In this first meetup plans to take us from setting basic Arduino / AVR toolchain on Mac / Linux machines and go ahead with controlling a servo or a stepper motor.

    That’s not all, I heard about some overnight hackathon in planning. its good to hear, specifically in the city which sleeps at 11 PM.

    Too much for a single week, I’ll prefer to spend the Sunday resting at home and trying new food joints like The Waffle Boss Co.

    Life in Nagpur is changing. Nagpur is turning to be happening place at least for me!

  • WordCamp Bhopal – WWWP5k And ViaLux

    This Weekend had many things happening around. WordCamp Bhopal and ViaLux Anomaly in Mumbai were on the same day 24th Sept 2016. I was supporting offline to my team in my Second Ingress Anomaly. The result is here Mumbai is Blue.

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    For detail, here’s the Mumbai scorecard.

    WordCamp Bhopal was my first WordCamp in Central India. All camps those I attended were in West Part of India. (I missed Jabalpur and Delhi). Despite living in Nagpur(Center of India), I’ve never been to Bhopal. I hardly discover the Madhya Pradesh. WordCamp Bhopal and #WWWP5k was a great plan to explore the unknown city.

    Train Journey Begin around 1 PM. I reached Bhopal by 7.30 PM.  Mobile Networking took me some time to figure out that Vodafone Calling is working fine and Airtel’s Internet is working in Bhopal. It seems mobile network is some big-time issue in Capital of Madhya Pradesh.

    The initial plan for #wwwP5k walking in Lake Capital Bhopal was to complete Bhopal Religious mission and some Portal upgrades in Bhopal with @Maximus175. Due to some medical emergency, he was not available, so aborted the Mission, just upgraded portals. After upgrading Portals, I joined Milesweb Team at Lake Side Ashoka’s Thus the Urban Socialite at Bada Talab.

    Photo by Chinmay at Bada Talab

    Lovely Food at beautiful Location, We talked about city & community activities.

    Day 2 Bhopal.

    Day Started little late at 7.30, so we rushed toward the WC Venue.

    Skipping the Bheed Bhad Joined the WordPress India Community people for Chai Pani.

    The day was great filled with Talks From Puneet, Alex, Aditya, Rahul, Nirav, Swapnil, Amit, Saurabh.

    Rahul shared how his team solves the Vicious circle. Good to know how rtCamp managed it.

    Apart from talks, it was a great pleasure meeting people from SwiftIdeas, InkThemes, ThemeIsle. Various Conversation about themes, development strategies continued throughout the day.

    I was disappointed to know students at LNCT do not know that “Nagpur was Capital of Madhya Pradesh”. 🙁
    Nagpur has its charm. At the end of day Announcement from LNCT College was the Great. An official Meetup Place in Bhopal.

    Overall WCBhopal was a great day spent. Meanwhile, Amit and I were monitoring ViaLux Activities in Intel Map & Telegram. We enjoyed the winning moment.

    I started my return journey, with Chattisgarh Express at 7 PM with some Delhi University geology students visiting MP for Educational Tour. I was surprised to see their knowledge about wildlife. Conversion continued the late night. Reached Nagpur By 3 AM. This was the Time I started with my #WWWP5K Walk playing Ingress from Station to Famous Zero Mile Stone of India, so no photos of #WWWP5K Walk.

    Aditya Picked me up From Zero Mile, we had some next week planning on Jalebi Poha at Shankar Nagar and ended into Bed.

    I’m still exchanging thoughts with new connects from Bhopal, I look forward to meeting them in WordCamp Nashik

  • MotorCycle Trip – Nagpur to Pune

    I know I’m posting after decades, these are some of my life events need to be logged on my blog.

    15 June 2013, Morning 5.30 Alone I Started my journeys towards Pune, 800Km drive in one day was the Objective with no idea of upcoming hurdles. hardly I’ve crossed Butibori Industrial Estate, heavy rain washed me out, Luckily I’d packed my baggage nicely(usually i don’t). You can visualize what kind of heavy rain it was in Nagpur that day, same evening Cities prime area was flooded. Video here

    Intentionally I decided to use state highway as National Highways has heavy rush. Decision was not wrong but I underestimated the power of wind as Dhamangaon to Malegaon is fully open agricultural land. I couldn’t drive my Pulsor 150 above 50Km/hr.

    Here’s route i drove

    Nagpur to Pune Route

    There are lots of places to enjoy your journey.

    • Kelzhar – Lord Ganesh Temple on hill, first stop you can have on 40 Km from Nagpur.
    • Wardha Bypass Route – nice scenary at Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (80Km From Nagpur)
    • Pulgaon – nothing much except ordnance factory & farms (couple more 30-40 km from wardha)
    • Dhamangaon – This town is known for railway station in this area, you can find nice Chai & kachori (20 Km from Pulgaon)
    • Karanja lad – religious old city, birth place of Nrusiha Saraswati, truely devine if you can catchup with Maha Prasad at Guru Mandir. Unfortunately I reached Karanja at 10.30 AM, Not good time for Lunch. (80Km from Dhamangaon). this town does make you feel you are back in Maratha Era.
    • Malegaon – more over industrial market place, refuel your engines 😛 (60 Km From Karanja Lad)
    • Mehkar – place with Famous Balaji Temple and Haunted Palace – Kanachani cha Mahal (not sure, but locals keep saying avoid that place). Also place has some British Construction to view. (60 Km from Malegaon)
    • Sindhkhed Raja – Home town of Jijau (JijaBai) – Mother of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, fort and Monuments in this city are truely amazing and really well maintained. (40 Km from Mehkar)
    • Jalna – Big city you reach after Nagpur Crossing around 400+ km in greenery,

    Rest 300 km route is all national Highway passing through Aurangabad, Devgad, Pravara Sangam, Ahmednagar, Shirur, Ranjangaon.

    Over all it was Great experience Riding 800+ KM Alone in a Single Rainy day. Food at Dhabha’s & talks with Chaiwalas It refreshed me from my daily work schedule.

     

  • Happy New Year – My list of things to focus on in 2013

    New Year is already started; I usually don’t do New Year resolutions at least not like will give more time to family, no more long sitting in front of PC, losing weight etc. You can call it annual plan. 😀
    Here is the list based on Priority.

    Nagpur Sites Network
    Discussing & planning since last three years, partially executed. Now it’s time to start with new phase. Shortly will be announcing three more websites dedicated to my hometown Nagpur.

    Peenak – Team Development
    It’s been one and half year we started Peenak Solutions, Our Own office Building construction has started, hopefully to be completed by April 2013. We will be keen to work on team as our new ventures from Gulf Breeze, London, Pune & Mumbai are going to flood our plates.

    Opencart Contributions
    Last two month we are developing custom solution based on Open Cart – Open source PHP based shopping cart solutions. It’s time to contribute to community.

    Android Applications
    I feel it’s never too late to jump in Android Market, A Pending Application From Nagpur Hackathon is waiting to be finished. And some more Ideas in brain are waiting to come out.

    Meetups
    In 2012, I missed Meets a lot. Meeting new people, sharing ideas, recharges me. This summer I need meets in Nagpur. Or I’m going to travel for this 😀

    Blogging
    I know my writing skills are too poor, unless I write how I am developing my writing skills. So at least someone can understand what I’m trying to say.

    Nothing wrong with spending more time with the family! It’s just that I don’t believe in making those kinds of promises at the turn of a new year. 🙂

    So, now that I’ve written my plan for 2013 down on paper and published it for the world to see, all that remains to do is do it!

  • India Against Corruption – Civil (Jan) lokpal

    In India, it’s said, a clever should not step in Police station or judiciary.
    Then for whom these stuffs are made for??

    For those who have not yet understand difference between Government lokpal and Anna’s Civil lokpal, take a look at following document.

    For those who want to read more about current govt. lokpal get the scanned document available at India against corruption’s Download Section.

    Do you know why did government ban 25paisa coin?
    Ek Anna toh sambhaal nahi sakte, 4 Anna kaha se sambhaalenge.

    Well it’s not time to pass such jokes, it’s time to act, find activity in your city.

  • Top 25 SEO Hubs in India

    India is Emerging Search Engine Optimization power house. Just had a small analysis on basis of some analytic data from Webmaster / SEO related websites. Following are the Top 25 Cities in India with Great SEO Jobs :

    1. New Delhi
    2. Mumbai
    3. Chandigarh
    4. Noida
    5. Hyderabad
    6. Calcutta
    7. Ahmedabad
    8. Pune
    9. Jaipur
    10. Chennai
    11. Bangalore
    12. Gurgaon
    13. Bhubaneswar
    14. Bhopal
    15. Ghaziabad
    16. Indore
    17. Coimbatore
    18. Vadodara
    19. Mahape
    20. Nagpur
    21. Lucknow
    22. Panipat
    23. Cochin
    24. Ludhiana
    25. Trivandrum

    So for those who are looking for SEO Jobs, These Hubs are your destinations.
    😉

  • Events around me – June 2010

    May Month was heavily loaded with fun in my life. Nagpur First Twitter meetup then Facebook Application development at PHP user group, Nagpur and at Last with heavy loads my Cousin wedding kept me pretty busy. I don’t even updated my blog, doing all efforts tonight !!

    This May was pretty hot in Nagpur, Now in June, we Nagpurians are still waiting for Monsoon to come and let people relax.

    Some Event’s Around Me :
    Samaradhna Din @ JSYOG on 9th June :
    Being a Volunteer at JSYOG, I spend my whole day at Mandal, Day begin ‘s with Great Suryanamaskar and other Asanas rest is full of celebrations. Last year I missed this event, Thanks for Subodh Da for the snap below.

    JSYog

    This year I’ll be attending and will have some snaps for him as he is in Pune.

    TechCrunch Meetup, Nagpur #TCNGP on 11th June :
    Celebrate five incredible years in tech with TechCrunch Meetups Everywhere! Its happening in 328 Cities around the world and In Nagpur too. So if you ever Go through TechCrunch.com, I’m looking forward to meet you on this Friday. You can share your opinion & RSVP at Meetups. Click Nagpur TechCrunch Meetup Page to Attend it.
    #TCNGP is Hashtag for the Event! just waiting for Exciting Friday.

    Nagpur PHP User Group Meetup on 19th
    Every month Nagpur PHP user group organize a meetup got some new experiences for all. This month its Hands-on on CakePHP Framework. RSVP For Nagpur PHP Meetup over Here

    TechMarathi ‘s First Meet on 19th
    Unfortunately I’ll be in Pune from 14-19th, won’t be able to attend Nagpur’s PHP meet, A chance to meet some new people in new Place. Will be all about New trends in Software Development and many more.

    Wow, I have already schedule my next two weeks !
    God me some grace !!

  • Nagpur PHP Meetup – Developing Facebook Application

    In Last Nagpur’s PHP User group meetup, Me and Chetan presented Facebook application development – basic introduction. Main motive was to introduce User group with Development environment, FBML, FQL , FJS and Library.

    Just check out following presentation

    Also had a small app – Nagpur PHP meet Test App presented live, small Application code can be downloaded. Click to download Facebook Test Application

    There are lots more happening in Nagpur now a days, if you are interested in PHP Meetups !!
    Feel Free to Contact.

  • Nagpur’s First Twitter Meetup

    Twitter Meetup – really an excuse to have an informal get-together and some fun. A reason for us to get away from keyboards and make new friends in meat-space.


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