Restaurants & Food Service
Your Restaurant Books Are a Mess. We Fix That.
Tip pooling, split payment types, food cost categories, and seasonal swings make restaurant bookkeeping uniquely difficult. We specialize in cleaning up QuickBooks Online files for food service businesses — so your numbers finally make sense.
Why Restaurant QuickBooks Files Get Out of Control
Tip Tracking Chaos
Tips paid out to staff, credit card tips, and cash tips all need to flow through QuickBooks correctly. Most restaurant QBO files have this completely wrong.
Mixed Payment Types
Cash, credit cards, third-party delivery apps (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub) — each deposits differently and needs its own reconciliation path.
Food Cost Categories
Food, beverage, and paper goods need separate COGS accounts to calculate true food cost percentage. Most setups lump everything into one account.
Seasonal Cash Flow Gaps
Slow seasons mean bills pile up and bookkeeping falls behind. By the time things pick up, you're months behind on reconciliations.
High Employee Turnover
Frequent payroll changes, tip credits, and tipped minimum wage rules create payroll entries that rarely match what's in QuickBooks.
Sales Tax Complexity
Food vs. alcohol vs. non-taxable items — sales tax rules for restaurants vary by state and item type, and most QBO setups don't reflect this correctly.
- Virtual service — all 50 states
- Fixed-fee pricing
- No ongoing retainer required
- CPA-ready deliverables
- QuickBooks Online specialists
QuickBooks Services for Restaurants
Fixed-fee, project-based pricing. No hourly billing, no retainers.
QuickBooks Online Setup
New QBO file configured specifically for food service — chart of accounts with proper COGS categories, sales tax items, payroll mapping, and delivery app income streams.
Starting at $950
Learn moreBookkeeping Cleanup
Fix miscategorized transactions, reconcile all payment types, correct tip entries, and get your P&L to accurately reflect food cost, labor cost, and net profit.
Starting at $1,500
Learn moreCatch-Up Bookkeeping
Months or years behind? We reconstruct your financial history from bank and credit card statements — organized by period and ready for your tax preparer.
Starting at $2,100
Learn moreReady to Get Your Restaurant Books Under Control?
Start with a free assessment. We'll review your QuickBooks file, identify what needs to be fixed, and give you a flat-fee proposal — no surprises.