Restaurant Accounting & Tax Services
Daily-sales close, prime-cost reporting, tip accounting, multi-location consolidation, and tax planning for restaurant groups, single locations, ghost kitchens, and food-service operators.
Why restaurant & hospitality businesses need accounting built for them.
Restaurant accounting requires a daily-sales close most generalist firms do not perform. Without it, weekly food cost and labor cost analysis is impossible, and prime cost (the single most actionable metric in restaurant operations) cannot be tracked. Add tip allocation under the new IRS rules, multi-location chart-of-accounts complexity, and frequent location-level financing arrangements, and most restaurant operators run blind on the metrics that matter.
What we deliver for restaurant & hospitality clients.
Every engagement combines our core accounting practice with the industry-specific knowledge restaurant & hospitality businesses need.
Restaurant Bookkeeping
Daily-sales close with weekly food and labor cost analysis.
Tax Preparation
Federal and state returns including W-2 tip allocation and tip credit calculations.
Tax Planning
Year-round planning including bonus depreciation on FF&E and entity structure across locations.
Payroll
Multi-location payroll with tip allocation and certified pay rules.
Fractional CFO
Prime cost analysis, location-level profitability, expansion modeling, and lender packages.
IRS Resolution
Representation for tip-reporting audits, cash-intensive business reviews, and worker-classification examinations.
Practice depth, documented standards, accountable people.
We hold ourselves to documented editorial standards, a published client success methodology, and the compliance posture appropriate to a U.S. professional accounting firm. Specifically for restaurant & hospitality engagements:
- Daily-sales reporting and weekly food and labor cost analysis
- Tip reporting and tip-credit calculations under FLSA and IRS rules
- POS integration: Toast, Square, Clover, Aloha, Lightspeed, Micros
- Multi-location consolidation with location-level P&L
- Section 199A and tip income tax planning
- Beverage purchase tracking against state alcohol regulations
- Loyalty program deferred revenue accounting
We are not a CPA firm. For engagements requiring CPA attestation, we coordinate with our licensed CPA partner network. We do not exaggerate credentials, and the named team on your engagement is the team that performs the work.
FAQ for restaurant & hospitality clients
Can you do a daily-sales close?
Yes. Daily sales pulled from your POS, reconciled to settlements and deposits, with weekly food cost, labor cost, and prime cost reports.
What about tip pooling?
We handle tip pool accounting and the underlying compliance work for tip credits under the FLSA. We do not adjudicate disputes between staff and management.
Do you work with single-location operators?
Yes. Single-location operators get the same daily-close discipline as multi-unit groups. The engagement is sized accordingly.
Can you help with a new-location pro forma?
Yes. Pro forma modeling for new locations is part of our fractional CFO engagement.
Three steps from here to a working engagement.
Generate a quote
Eight questions, 90 seconds, a locked final monthly price scaled to your specific restaurant & hospitality profile.
Discovery call
A 20-minute call to confirm the scope, meet your account lead, and align on the engagement details.
Onboard in 2 to 6 weeks
We rebuild your books to a clean baseline and run our first monthly close in parallel before fully taking over.