Practice Areas — Bars & Restaurants
From a single bar to a multi-venue group, we keep sales, food cost, labor, and cash reconciled — so you know what a packed Saturday really made and exactly where the margin went.
What we hear
These are the gaps that quietly cost you money, time, and confidence. We bring structure and accuracy to each one.
Daily sales never reconciled back to deposits
Food and labor cost guessed instead of measured
Delivery commissions absorbed with no line for them
Tip pooling and payroll taxes handled by hand
Vendor invoices and credits piling up unmatched
No idea which menu items actually pay the rent
The scope for you
The engagement
The first 90 days
Days 1 – 14
Access, exports, and catch-up
We connect your POS, bank, card, payroll, and vendor accounts, then take the current quarter from raw exports to recorded transactions: sales by day and shift, invoices, payroll runs, and platform payouts.
Days 15 – 45
A chart of accounts built for venues
Your chart of accounts gets rebuilt around how you operate — revenue split by channel, cost split by food, beverage, labor, and occupancy, with each location carrying its own class from the first entry.
Days 46 – 90
First close and the weekly loop
Your first full close lands with prime cost by location and margin by menu item. From there the weekly sales tie-out, invoice posting, and payroll review run on a fixed schedule you can plan around.
The rhythm we keep
Every week
Every month
Every quarter
Every year
The result
Daily sales that match the drawer, the bank, and the POS
Prime cost visible weekly instead of guessed quarterly
A real number for every menu item and every channel
Investor or lender packages produced on request
Systems we work in
We work inside the systems you already run — no POS migration, no payroll change, nothing new to learn. Where something is genuinely missing, we recommend the smallest fix and nothing more.
POS & Sales
Accounting & Payroll
Delivery & Ordering
Vendors & Inventory
Common questions
No. We reconcile from the systems you already operate, and we never change your POS or payroll without your sign-off. If something is genuinely holding the numbers back, we show you the cost of that gap before recommending anything.
Most clients arrive three to eighteen months behind. Catch-up is quoted as a fixed fee before we start, based on transaction volume, and the monthly rhythm begins once the books reach a known starting point.
Sales against deposits, food and beverage cost, total labor including taxes and tips, and prime cost as a percentage of sales — reported per venue, never as one blended group number.
Each venue keeps its own profit and loss statement, and the group rolls into a consolidated view. Comparatives show which location is carrying the others, and where the difference actually sits.
Bookkeeping, the monthly close, your reporting package, and a recurring review call. Catch-up work, controllership, and tax preparation are scoped separately, and we tell you plainly which of them you actually need.
We prepare a tax-ready year-end package and work alongside your CPA, or coordinate with a filing partner when you do not have one. Filing itself is scoped separately and never assumed.
Bars & Restaurants Intake
A few details about your venues and how you sell, so our first conversation is already grounded in your numbers.
A 30-minute discovery call. We'll map your venues' books and show you exactly where the margin is leaking.
Book an Advisory Session