Bookkeeping for Restaurants and Cafes
Your POS rings up hundreds of small sales a day. We reconcile it to the bank, track your food and labour cost, and handle tips in payroll, all inside QuickBooks Online, so your numbers stay current every single day.
★★★★★ 5.0 from 80+ Google reviews
Where restaurant books get messy
A restaurant is not a typical business on paper. You push a high volume of small tickets through a POS such as Square, Lightspeed, or Toast, and each day that POS has to line up with the cash in your bank, the sales tax you collected, and the card payouts that land a day or two later. Miss a step and your margins blur, your HST and GST look off, and you cannot tell a slow week from a costing problem. Our restaurant bookkeeping keeps all of it reconciled and current.
Restaurant bookkeeping, handled in QuickBooks Online
Daily POS reconciliation
We match every day of POS sales to your bank deposits, card payouts, and cash, so nothing slips.
Talk to us →Food and labour cost tracking
We track cost of goods and labour as a share of sales, so you can spot a margin leak fast.
Talk to us →Tips and payroll
We run your payroll and handle tips correctly, including CPP and EI on controlled tips.
Learn more →Sales tax kept clean
We separate the HST and GST you collect from your sales, so filing is straightforward.
Learn more →Supplier and invoice tracking
We record what you owe food and beverage suppliers, so payables never catch you off guard.
Talk to us →Inventory and waste
We keep your inventory and waste in the books, so cost of goods reflects what really happened.
Talk to us →Monthly reporting
Clear monthly financial reporting that shows sales, food cost, labour, and profit at a glance.
Learn more →Full monthly books
All of it rolls into complete monthly bookkeeping services in QuickBooks Online.
Learn more →From POS chaos to clean books in four steps
1. We connect your POS and bank
We move your restaurant onto QuickBooks Online and connect your POS, bank, and card processor so daily sales flow in automatically.
2. We reconcile every day of sales
POS totals get matched to deposits and payouts, with HST and GST split out, so each day balances and nothing goes missing.
3. We cost your menu and labour
We track food cost and labour cost against sales and flag the weeks where a number drifts, before it eats your margin.
4. You get numbers you can run on
Every month you get clean books and a plain report, and when it is time to file we hand off to our tax for restaurants service.
Rated 5.0 by our clients on Google
Bookkeeping that speaks kitchen
We know the POS
Square, Lightspeed, Toast, and more. We know how each one exports and how to tie it back to the bank cleanly.
QuickBooks Online only
We work exclusively in QuickBooks Online and onboard or switch you over, so your books live in one modern, connected place.
Fully virtual, zero drop offs
No paperwork to bundle up and no trips to an office. Everything runs through secure digital records, wherever you are in Canada.
One firm, ready for tax season
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Ready to get your restaurant books under control?
Book a free 30 minute consultation. We will look at your POS, your current setup, and show you exactly how we would run your books in QuickBooks Online.
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