Buffet Fusion Foods
Company Brief
Buffet Fusion Foods Private Limited is a premium frozen food company operating under the brand name “Buffet”, a trusted name built on over 40+ years of frozen food expertise Known for its commitment to quality, freshness, and purity, Buffet uses carefully selected, chemical-free ingredients to deliver products where freshness is truly sealed.
Positioned as an aspirational and premium brand, Buffet caters to health-conscious and quality-driven consumers. With a strong presence across retail and institutional segments, the brand offers 100+ SKUs in the frozen foods category, including Ready to Cook, Ready to Eat, Ready to Fry, and Heat & Serve products such as Indian Breads, Seafood, Meats, Sausages, Vegetables, and Specialty Indian Foods.
Buffet Fusion Foods manufactures, packs, and markets its products for the Indian domestic market and international markets serving the Indian diaspora, while maintaining strict adherence to food safety and regulatory standards.
Challenges
As Buffet Fusion Foods continued to expand its product portfolio and market footprint, managing regulatory compliance across multiple SKUs and pack formats became increasingly complex. The dynamic nature of food regulations, frequent authority queries, and the need for continuous audit readiness required a structured, expert-led compliance approach.
Key challenges included:
- Managing multiple FSSAI licenses and ensuring timely renewals and annual returns.
- Maintaining label compliance across a wide range of products and pack formats.
- Ensuring ongoing product compliance with evolving food safety regulations.
- Addressing random regulatory and compliance queries in a timely and accurate manner.
- Managing audit preparedness, including pre-assessment, audit coordination, and post-audit corrective actions.
- Applying for and managing Legal Metrology licenses for new products and packaging formats.
Solutioning
Buffet Fusion Foods partnered with Food Safety Works to manage its end-to-end regulatory compliance and audit requirements through a proactive and structured framework.
Our support included:
Regulatory & Licensing Support
- End-to-end management of FSSAI licensing, renewals, and annual return filings.
- Continuous monitoring of product compliance in line with applicable regulations.
- Timely and accurate handling of regulatory and authority queries.
Label Compliance Management
- Comprehensive review of product labels for FSSAI and Legal Metrology compliance.
- Implementation support for regulatory updates and corrective actions.
Audit Management & Tracking
- Pre-audit assessments to identify gaps and improve audit readiness.
- Support during audits, including documentation and coordination.
- Post-audit corrective action planning, tracking, and closure.
Legal Metrology Compliance
- Assistance with new Legal Metrology license applications.
- Verification of statutory declarations and packaging requirements.
Value Proposition
With our Food Safety Works as their compliance partner, Buffet Fusion Foods achieved a streamlined and sustainable compliance ecosystem.
The engagement resulted in:
- Improved regulatory confidence and audit readiness.
- Reduced risk of non-compliance through proactive monitoring.
- Seamless management of licenses, documentation, and returns.
- Faster resolution of regulatory and compliance queries.
- Strengthened brand credibility in both domestic and international markets.
- By integrating regulatory compliance, audit management, and labeling oversight into a single, cohesive framework, Buffet Fusion Foods continues to reinforce its position as a trusted premium frozen food brand, committed to safety, quality, and continuous improvement.