Murat Gurhan
Co-founder & CEO
Murat is a co-founder and CEO of dojofood. He has spent his career building and operating software companies, and started dojofood after watching restaurant teams lose margin to marketplace commissions and drown in a stack of disconnected tablets. He writes about the real economics of running a food business across every ordering channel.
Writing by Murat GurhanHow Restaurant Tips Are Taxed in Türkiye (2026)
Whether a tip creates tax in Türkiye depends on how you collect it: no VAT when charged separately, VAT when added to the bill, and withholding on payout.
Türkiye's Secure Mobile Payment System (VUK 507): Selling Without a Fiscal Register
How Türkiye's VUK 507 system (GMÖEBYS) lets businesses sell without a fiscal cash register: exemption rules, restaurant scenarios, and common myths (2026).
Türkiye's ÖKC-POS Integration Rules (2026)
Türkiye requires bank POS terminals and restaurant POS software to integrate with fiscal cash registers. Communiqué 483's four rules and 2026 penalties.
Türkiye's Cash Register and Receipt Fines: The Official 2026 Amounts
The full official list of Türkiye's 2026 fiscal cash register, receipt and integration fines: 17,000 TL per receipt, the tiered detection system, common myths.
Türkiye's Fiscal Register Rules: Who Needs One?
Türkiye's fiscal cash register (ÖKC) rules for 2026: who must use one, who is exempt, the two device types, the 30-day rule and mandatory card acceptance.
Which of your channels actually make money
Dine-in, takeaway and every marketplace net a different margin on the same dish. How to run a channel-profit audit and act on the number — without leaving the apps.
Kill the tablet wall
Four marketplace tablets, four alarms, one buried kitchen. A Friday night behind the tablet wall — and the case for pulling every channel into one order queue.
After the signature: what card processing and lock-in really cost
The fee you sign for is rarely the fee you pay. What card processing, cancellation clauses and POS lock-in really cost — and how payment orchestration avoids them.
What a delivery marketplace actually costs a plate
The real per-order math on marketplace delivery — commission, promo cost-share, marketing surcharges and the 'free delivery' sleight of hand — worked through on a €12 order.
The operator journal: what's actually broken in your day
We asked restaurant, café and kitchen teams a single question — what's broken in your day? — and the same three answers came back. Here's what operators told us.
The dojofood Resources hub is live
A new home for operator-grade guides, insights, answers and the terms operators meet — in English and Turkish, with more to come.