ARTEES CORPORATION

Artees developsexceptional food

and the methods
to produce it consistently

without relying on chefs,

so it can be sold at prices many can afford.

Artees owner and worker presenting food from several domains

Built for owner-operated franchises.

Every Artees store must be run by its franchise owner.

Quiet outside. Extraordinary inside.

The Structural Problem in Food

Two common ways of running a food business can face different limitations.

Chef-led outlets

  • 01

    Few achieve exceptional quality.

  • 02

    Those that do depend on individual chefs.

  • 03

    The result rarely transfers across teams and locations.

  • 04

    High skilled‑labor and operating costs limit affordability.

A top chef can make exceptional food. Why Artees? →
Industrial vs. Artees systematization →

Conventional chains

  • 01

    The food is designed to fit the system.

  • 02

    Quality depends on each manager’s commitment.

  • 03

    Split production between central kitchens and stores can compromise quality.

  • 04

    Price and efficiency targets constrain the product.

Leading food manufacturers can produce exceptional food. Why Artees? →

A plated scallop dish

Exceptional quality, chef independence, reproducibility and affordability

rarely coexist in one food business.

The Artees Solution

  1. 01

    EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY

    Proven against the strongest comparable product in the
    market before launch.

  2. 02

    WITHOUT CHEF DEPENDENCY

    The trained owner applies defined standards, so the
    result does not depend on a chef’s individual judgment.

  3. 03

    REPRODUCIBILITY

    Locked formulations and defined processes are designed to
    transfer the result across people, batches and locations.

  4. 04

    AFFORDABILITY

    Lower build-out and operating costs support more
    affordable pricing.

Combining all four in one production system is what distinguishes Artees.

How we create exceptional food

Exceptional is a claim most food businesses make about themselves.
At Artees it has to be proven before a product is allowed to launch.

  1. 01

    SET THE BENCHMARK

    Identify the strongest comparable market product, and define
    exactly what it delivers: taste, texture, consistency.

  2. 02

    DEVELOP & REFINE

    Build the Artees formulation and refine it repeatedly
    against that benchmark.

  3. 03

    COMPARE WITH THE BENCHMARK

    Compare the Artees product with the benchmark
    for taste, texture and consistency.

  4. 04

    LOCK IT ONLY WHEN IT WINS

    The formulation advances only after it outperforms the benchmark.
    If it doesn’t, it doesn’t launch.

The result is that every product in the franchise range is based on a formulation proven against the strongest comparable market product.

How we benchmark and evaluate our products → · How Artees develops exceptional food →

How we make it without a chef

At Artees, quality is decided in the formulation and protected by the production system.
People still make the food, but the result does not depend on the judgment of one chef.

  1. 01

    LOCK THE FORMULATION

    Once a product meets the development standard, its formulation is locked. The owner
    holds and applies it. Employees perform only their assigned steps without
    receiving the complete formulation or owner-only procedures.

  2. 02

    DECIDE BEFORE PRODUCTION BEGINS

    The decisions that determine the result are made in advance
    and written into the process. The owner applies the critical
    controls; staff do not have to improvise at the bench.

  3. 03

    OPERATE, MONITOR & VERIFY

    Employees carry out assigned work and operate equipment where
    required. The owner oversees production, monitors the controls
    and verifies that the standards are followed.

  4. 04

    CATCH DEVIATIONS EARLY

    Defined checks identify departures from the standard. The owner
    investigates and takes corrective action before the product
    is released to customers.

The system is designed to help reproduce the result across people, batches and locations.

How the production system works →

How we make it affordable

Food at this level normally carries the costs that come with it — a skilled kitchen,
a prime address, a setting to match. Artees reduces those costs without lowering
the standard of the food.

  1. 01

    LABOR

    The system removes the need to hire an expensive chef and
    experienced staff that food at this level would normally
    require. Trained people execute defined processes.

  2. 02

    MANAGEMENT

    Artees is built for active owner-operators. The owner works
    in and leads the business, rather than carrying the cost of
    a management layer to run it.

  3. 03

    OCCUPANCY

    Because the draw is the product rather than the address, the store
    does not have to depend on prime location foot traffic.

    What makes a sweet shop worth seeking out? →
  4. 04

    BUILD-OUT

    The value sits in the food rather than in an elaborate physical
    setting, which allows a simpler and less expensive build-out.

Artees does not make exceptional food affordable by simplifying the food.

It makes it affordable by reducing the costs around producing and selling it.

How we made it possible

Six years of hands-on development at Artees Kitchens & Labs.

Artees went beyond recipes. Over six years, products and production methods were built through
repeated formulation work, ingredient evaluation, equipment trials, process testing and documentation.

  1. 5

    Fitted Kitchens & Labs

    Working environments used to develop and test
    products and production methods.

  2. 100+

    Equipment & Appliances Evaluated

    Different equipment was tested to understand what produced
    the required result and how that result could be controlled.

  3. 700+

    Tools & Process Aids

    Tools and process aids were evaluated for how well they allowed
    a defined process to be carried out the same way each time.

  4. 600+

    Ingredients Evaluated

    Ingredients were tested across the wider Artees platform to understand
    their effect on the finished product and the production process.

Artees laboratory assistants testing finished-curd moisture and rasmalai malai viscosity

This Is Where We Built It Over Six Years.

Artees Food Platform

Artees is a food-development platform spanning multiple cuisines and product categories, built on a common discipline of formulation, process development, standardization, and documentation.

319 developed products across ten food domains.

Artees Sweets is being franchised now, and Artees Chill’n Cream and Artees CakeLab are ready next. The remaining seven have developed product portfolios, while their business models and operating structures are still being developed.

  • DomainProductsStatus
  • Artees Sweets40Franchising Now
  • Artees Chill’n Cream84Launch Ready
  • Artees CakeLab21Launch Ready
  • Artees Mahal23In Development
  • Artees CurryPoint22In Development
  • DomainProductsStatus
  • Artees EarlyEats20In Development
  • Artees Express14In Development
  • Artees Bistro23In Development
  • Artees Creamery23In Development
  • Artees Pantry & Go49In Development

Artees Food Domains1 / 4

Illustrative concept rendering for Artees CakeLab
Artees CakeLab21Products
Launch ReadyIllustrative concept rendering
Illustrative concept rendering for Artees Chill’n Cream
Artees Chill’n Cream84Products
Launch ReadyIllustrative concept rendering

Artees Food Domains2 / 4

Illustrative concept rendering for Artees Mahal
Artees Mahal23Products
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Artees CurryPoint22Products
In DevelopmentIllustrative concept rendering

Artees Food Domains3 / 4

Illustrative concept rendering for Artees Express
Artees Express14Products
In DevelopmentIllustrative concept rendering
Illustrative concept rendering for Artees EarlyEats
Artees EarlyEats20Products
In DevelopmentIllustrative concept rendering

Artees Food Domains4 / 4

Illustrative concept rendering for Artees Creamery
Artees Creamery23Products
In DevelopmentIllustrative concept rendering
Illustrative concept rendering for Artees Pantry & Go
Artees Pantry & Go49Products
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From Platform to First Brand

Artees Sweets

The platform was built across ten food domains, developing product formulations, production processes and documentation through a common discipline.

Artees Sweets is the first of those domains to reach the market and the first Artees brand being offered as a franchise.

It brings the platform’s product-development and operating work into an owner-operated South Asian sweets franchise business designed to be learned, run and reproduced across locations.

Illustrative Artees Sweets storefront
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