Bookkeeping for restaurants, cafés and food service.
Daily POS deposits, tips, food cost and a payroll that changes every week. We reconcile it all monthly so you can see food and labour cost as a percentage of sales instead of guessing from the bank balance.
Sound familiar?
These are the things we see most often in restaurants and cafés books before we take them over.
- POS totals that never quite match what landed in the bank
- Tips and gratuities mixed in with sales revenue
- Food and beverage cost unknown until it's too late to change the menu
- Delivery-app payouts arriving net of fees, with the fees never recorded
- Weekly payroll with shifting hours, and remittances filed late
- PST on some items, GST on others, and nobody sure which
What we handle for restaurants and cafés businesses
- Daily POS-to-bank reconciliation, including card settlement timing
- Tips and gratuities tracked separately from sales
- Food, beverage and labour cost reported as a percentage of sales
- Delivery-platform payouts recorded gross, with commissions as expense
- Weekly or bi-weekly payroll, remittances, ROEs and T4s
- GST and PST filed correctly across mixed-rate menu items
How we run your file
We connect your POS and bank feeds, then reconcile every settlement batch so the numbers in your statements are the numbers that actually cleared. Each month you get sales, food cost and labour cost side by side — the three levers that decide whether the restaurant works.
Works with QuickBooks Online or Xero alongside your existing POS. You keep running service; we handle the paperwork behind it.
What it costs
Flat monthly fees from $175, set after a quick look at your volume — no hourly surprises and no lock-in contract.
FAQ
Restaurants & Cafés bookkeeping questions
Straight answers before you pick up the phone.
Yes — every settlement batch, including card timing differences and processor fees, so your sales figures match reality.
Yes. Food, beverage and labour are reported as a percentage of sales in your monthly statement pack.
Payouts are recorded gross with commissions and fees booked as expenses, so your true sales volume shows up instead of the net deposit.