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how snappy helped punjabi Chaap corner increase sales & customer retention across 15 locations

35

%

Increase in repeat customers

23

%

Increase in online orders

Punjabi Chaap Corner is Canada's best-known destination for chaap - 100% vegetarian Punjabi food built around soya chaap and plant-based meat, from afghani and malai chaap to tandoori momos, chole bhature and kulcha. What started as a single counter serving guests who wanted the taste of tandoor without the meat has grown into 15 locations across Canada, with Barrie and Ottawa opening soon. Their promise is simple: the same bold, fresh, made-to-order flavour at every corner.

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15 Locations
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100% Vegetarian Punjabi Cuisine
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Growing Canadian Franchise

Challenge

Punjabi Chaap Corner's growth created three problems that get harder with every new store: fragmented ordering channels, no shared view of the customer, and no consistent way to run the brand across franchise locations. Third-party delivery orders arrived on their own tablets and had to be re-keyed into the POS by hand, which slowed the line during dinner rush and introduced errors on a menu where a single modifier changes the dish entirely.

Payments ran through terminals that weren't tied to the POS, so every close involved manual reconciliation. Menu updates and new launches had to be rebuilt separately for each channel and each store, meaning a new item could be live in one city and missing in another. And because most new guests discovered the brand through delivery marketplaces, Punjabi Chaap Corner had no way to recognize them, reach them again, or bring them back through its own channels. There was no loyalty program, no first-party customer data, and no single dashboard showing how locations compared.

Solution

Snappy rolled out a single connected platform across all 15 Punjabi Chaap Corner locations: POS, integrated payment terminals, KDS, branded online ordering, delivery integration and loyalty, all running on the same system. Uber Eats, DoorDash, SkipTheDishes and the restaurant's own website orders now flow directly into Snappy POS and print to the kitchen automatically with no extra tablets, no manual entry, no lost tickets during peak hours. Payments are processed through terminals tied to the POS, so totals reconcile themselves at close.

Online ordering gave the brand a direct, commission-free channel it controls, with the full chaap and momo menu, modifiers and location-specific hours managed centrally and pushed to every store at once. Snappy Loyalty sits underneath all of it: guests earn and redeem the same points whether they order at the counter, from the website, or for pickup and delivery, at any Punjabi Chaap Corner in the country. For the first time, head office can see sales, order mix and customer behaviour across all locations in one dashboard and use it to decide what to launch next.

"We were growing fast, but every new location added another set of tablets, another terminal, another place where something could go wrong.

Our team was spending dinner rush typing delivery orders into the POS instead of cooking. And the hardest part was that thousands of people were trying our chaap through delivery apps, loving it and we had no way to reach any of them again.

We needed one system that could run the whole brand and actually help us build a relationship with our customers."
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- Nipun, Manager

results

“The change showed up in the kitchen first. Orders come in on their own, the tickets are right, and service is faster on our busiest nights.

Then we saw it in the numbers, people are signing up for points, coming back more often, and ordering directly from us instead of through the apps. We can launch a new item like jhol momos across every location on the same day and see exactly how it's doing.  

- Nipun, Manager

18

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Increase in average order value per customer.

3x

More loyalty member signups in the first 12 months.

7

%

Faster average order fulfillment time per location

impact

Average Order Value
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Promotions and targeted upsells on combos, sides and beverages lifted average order value by 18% per customer.

Loyalty Signups
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An integrated loyalty program that works identically in-store, online and across all 15 locations drove 3 times more member signups in the first twelve months.

Order Fulfillment Time
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Routing every delivery and online order straight into Snappy POS with integrated Kitchen Display System increased order fulfillment times.

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