Billing for your sweet shop or bakery in Rajasthan
Sweets by the kilo, boxes by the piece and Saturday's wedding order, all in one bill book.
Rajasthan's districts and the sweet they take home
A sweet shop tells its visitors what the city is known for, and most of them take a box away.
- Alwar ka mawa, the milk cake, is the city's famous sweet, and it is sold at Tripolia Market and the markets near Hope Circus.
- Jaipur is known for block printing, blue pottery and gemstone jewellery, and Sitapura Industrial Area there is an export zone with wooden article makers and textile units.
- Nagaur has a huge trade in dried red chillies, and the cattle fair is held every November.
- Udaipur has the Shilpgram craft village, and it is renowned for miniature paintings and marble carvings.
- In Sikar, the Rajasthan Foundation lists dal, edible oil and cattle feed among the local industry opportunities, with granite tiles and PVC pipes.
- Pachpadra in Barmer has the HPCL refinery complex, which will process 9 million tonnes of crude a year and had about 35,000 workers engaged by February 2023.
The plate and the half kilo on one bill, tomorrow's mawa, a guest house's month
Ghewar by the piece, peda and burfi by weight, in one Diwali wait
In the Diwali queue the ghewar goes by the piece and the peda and burfi by weight. A family that wants a ghewar for the house and a quarter of each sweet waits once at one counter.
The Teej week read day by day, for the mawa deliveries
Ghewar leaves faster each morning as Teej comes close. The report keeps every day, so you see the morning the crowd peaked. Next year the mawa and milk deliveries are asked for on those mornings and not spread over the whole week.
The guest house's month on one page
Open a page for each hotel or guest house. Each morning's boxes are added with the date and the sweets in them, by weight or by piece. At the month's end the manager gets one total that lists which sweets went each morning.
Kachori at eight, sweets at noon, and mawa that will not wait
Kachori at eight, sweets by the half kilo at noon
The shop opens to a breakfast crowd that wants a plate of hot kachori, samosa or mirchi vada, paid for in cash or by UPI in a hurry. By noon the same counter weighs out peda, burfi and laddu, and at Diwali the queue for boxes runs out of the door. One scale and one counter serve two kinds of customer, and the sum is worked out in the head for both.
Fresh mawa every morning, finished in a few days
Sweets made of mawa and milk are good for a short time. What is made in the morning has to be sold in the next day or two, so how much to make is a guess made every night. Make too little and the counter is empty by noon at Rakhi or Teej, and make too much and the rest is given away.
A guest house that takes boxes every morning
Hotels and guest houses on the tourist roads send a boy every morning for a few boxes of sweets for their guests, and settle at the month's end. Ten mornings of three boxes each are ten small slips. By the end of the month the manager and the shop each hold a different count.
Tools for a counter of laddu, burfi and ghewar
Bills on your phone
A hot kachori plate paid for in seconds, and a sweet box weighed later, each on a bill of its own.
Credit book (khata)
A page for each guest house that takes boxes daily and pays at the month's end.
Orders to suppliers
The night's order of mawa and milk, made from the kilos that sold that day.
Daily reports
Kilos sold of each sweet on each festival day, to read the next year before you begin to cook.
UPI payments
At eight o'clock the breakfast queue pays by UPI against one QR, and the plate's price is already on the bill.
What Rajasthan sweet makers ask
A lot of mawa comes from a new supplier. How do I note which lot was his?
Open a page in his name and note the day and the kilos of each lot. The lot you used in the ghewar that week can be matched to the page by its day.
A guest house needs extra boxes for a wedding party staying with it. Where do they go?
Add them as an extra line on the same page, on the day they were taken. The month's page still ends in one total, and the manager can see the day of the party.
The breakfast ends by noon. Where do I read how many plates of kachori went?
Open the kachori item at noon. Its count shows the plates left from the morning's lot, and the day's sales show how many went. The peda, burfi and laddu are items of their own, so the kachori number never moves the sweets' kilos.
Ghewar at Teej and the Diwali food checks
At Teej, ghewar is the festival sweet in Jaipur, and makers now sell millet and wheat versions beside the plain and malai ones. Each version is its own item at its own rate, so the festival week's count shows which one the town wanted.
Before Diwali 2024, food safety teams in Jaipur raided several sweet and mawa shops and destroyed adulterated goods, in a drive ordered by the Chief Minister. A shop that notes which supplier sent each lot of mawa, and on which day, can answer an inspector from its own record.