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A Pinch of Salt,
A Dash of Lime.

POSDOL came from this idea: a pinch of salt and a dash of lime are what make all the difference to any dish. Not the protein, not the technique — the small things. This blog is about those small things. The specific version, for people who are actually building something in food.

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Palak
Recipe  ·  Featured

The 4:2:1:0.5 Ratio — Palak Aloo

A chef at IHM taught me a ratio I have never forgotten. Four parts spinach, two parts coriander, one part mint, half a part green chilli. Not a recipe. A ratio. Which means it works at any scale, any quantity, any day. The palak aloo built on that ratio — with the story behind it.

Chef Sendhil's Ratio
4 : 2 : 1 : 0.5
Spinach  ·  Coriander  ·  Mint  ·  Green chilli
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Food Operations

Why Your Food Cost Looks Fine Until It Doesn't

Most early-stage operators review financials monthly. By the time the bank account tells the story, the window to correct it is already closed. What daily P&L tracking actually looks like in a small kitchen.

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Food & Science

What Genomics Is Starting to Tell Us About How We Should Eat

The same meal, two different bodies, two different outcomes. Preventive genomics is making personalised nutrition specific enough to be useful. What we actually know — and what we do not.

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Building & Closing

The Middle Position Problem — Why Small QSRs Are Hard

Fast food chains achieve their cost structure through volume. Full-service restaurants justify their margins through experience. A small, independent QSR has access to neither advantage. This is a structural problem.

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Recipe

Dad's Ghee Sambar — A Recipe That Comes With Instructions to Slow Down

Some recipes teach technique. Some teach patience. This one teaches both. The correct quantity of ghee in sambar is always slightly more than you think it should be.

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Menu Engineering

Launching Short Was the Right Decision. It Almost Always Is.

Eight items. The temptation to expand the menu after the first few weeks is real and almost always wrong. Expansion before the core menu is operationally solid is where most QSR concepts begin unravelling.

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Coming soon

The Platform Dependency Problem — Cloud Kitchens and the Swiggy-Zomato Trap

100% platform dependency means 100% exposure to policy changes, commission adjustments, and algorithm shifts. No direct customer relationship. This is the structural weakness that is difficult to resolve.

Publishing soon

What this blog covers

Five pillars.
All from the work.

Every post falls into one of these five areas. The writing comes from operator experience, not from reading about it.

01

Recipes

Real recipes. With the memory behind them, the technique that matters, and the ratio worth memorising.

02

Operator Reality

Cloud kitchen economics, menu engineering, vendor management, kitchen systems, P&L. The specific, not the general.

03

Food Science

Applied nutrition, ingredient function, nutrigenomics. What food does in the body, explained by someone who cooks it.

04

Building & Closing

Yellow Door, Seoul Sandwich, what the work taught. The decisions that most founder content skips over.

05

The Long Game

Personal systems, health as operations, the pattern-finding approach to building things. The philosophy behind the work.

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