Nino Foods YC Application

Summer 2021Active

Nino Foods went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2021 batch as a Consumer company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2021
Industry: ConsumerFood and Beverage
Team size: 250
Status: Active
Launched: 2021

Founders

Nishant JhaveriFounder
Pranav MehraFounder

What Nino Foods does

Nino Foods builds and operates fast food restaurants in India. We own 3 brands- Nino Burgers, Francesco's Pizzeria and KHA-Fried Chicken. We operate QSR and cloud kitchen formats and have industry leading payback period per store (<1 year). We are tripling in size yearly and are profitable. We have 20 Locations in Mumbai and service 40K orders per month. The founding team has Nishant - an Insead MBA, and Pranav-who led online revenue for Disney and Conde Nast India.

Nino Foods's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Nino Foods, Summer 2021 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Nino Foods

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Building India's fast food empire

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We build and operate fast food restaurants and cloud kitchens in Mumbai under three brands: Nino Burgers, Francesco's Pizzeria, and KHA-Fried Chicken. We focus on quick service formats that deliver quality food efficiently. Our system is optimized for quick payback per store and scaling delivery through online orders.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and operate in Maharashtra, India, and the company is based here as well.

Explain your decision regarding location.

We chose to operate in Mumbai where the demand for quick delivery and cloud kitchens is high. Being local lets us tightly control operations and iterate rapidly with our team on the ground.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Nino Foods YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from Nino Foods's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like Nino Foods would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.