Accounting Services For Restaurants

Restaurant finances are more complex than most businesses. Between food and labor cost tracking, tip reporting, payroll compliance, sales tax, inventory management, and delivery platform reconciliation, small errors can quickly impact margins. A restaurant accounting specialist understands these industry-specific challenges, helps identify costly issues early, improves financial visibility, and provides reporting that reflects how restaurants actually operate day to day.

This is one of the areas where restaurant accounting most commonly goes wrong. Delivery platforms deduct commissions, marketing fees, and adjustments before paying out, which means the cash that lands in your account is rarely the same as your actual gross sales. We reconcile platform statements properly, separating gross revenue, commissions, and adjustments so your reported revenue is accurate and your margin figures reflect reality rather than whatever the net payout happened to be.

Yes. We connect directly with Square, Lightspeed, Clover, and other major POS platforms to pull daily sales data into your accounting system automatically. Manual entry drops away, reconciliation runs on a consistent basis, and any gaps between your POS reports, card settlements, and bank deposits get flagged quickly rather than building into a discrepancy nobody can explain.

Carefully and proactively. Tip reporting and payroll compliance are areas where restaurants can easily run into IRS and labor law issues without realizing it. We help manage tip allocation, tip pooling arrangements, payroll reporting, and proper tax treatment to ensure compliance with federal and state requirements. We also monitor wage compliance and payroll accuracy to help prevent issues related to overtime, tipped minimum wage rules, and employee compensation reporting.

Each site gets its own P&L so performance is visible at the location level. Central costs are allocated properly rather than lumped into one entity and left to distort the picture. Group consolidation gives owners and investors a clear view of overall performance alongside the site-by-site detail. For franchises and mixed ownership structures, we handle the intercompany transactions and management fee arrangements that come with that complexity.

Monthly retainer packages based on transaction volume, number of sites, payroll headcount, and what you actually need from us. Every engagement starts with a conversation about your specific situation, followed by a fixed-fee proposal with no surprises built into it. As your business changes, your package can change with it.