Bookkeeping for Restaurants

Restaurant books that reconcile to the dollar — tips, POS deposits, and all.

Your Square or Toast deposits never match your sales — tips, fees, refunds, and delivery commissions all get in the way. I untangle it every month, so your revenue is real and you actually know your food cost.

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Your POS says one thing. Your bank says another.

Square, Toast, and Clover batch out a single deposit that's already net of card fees, tips, refunds, and chargebacks — so the money that hits your account is never your actual sales. Without a clearing account doing the matching, your revenue is overstated, your fees are invisible, and your food cost is a guess. I reconcile the POS to the penny every month so sales, fees, and tips each land where they belong.

Built for how a restaurant actually runs

What every month includes

POS deposits reconciled to sales

Every Square/Toast/Clover batch matched to the bank deposit — net of fees — so your revenue number is real, not the gross on the dashboard.

Tips handled as a liability, not income

Tips are your staff's money passing through, not your sales. Tracked and cleared so they never inflate your revenue — or your tax bill.

Food & beverage cost you can see

COGS categorized consistently month after month, so you know your margin — not just your sales — while you can still do something about it.

Delivery apps untangled

DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub pay out net of commission. I record the sale and the fee separately, so you see what those platforms really cost you.

Sales tax set aside, not spent

The portion that was never yours, tracked and reconciled so it's there when the filing comes due — no end-of-quarter surprise.

The watch layer

My anomaly checks run on your books each month — deposit gaps, fee drift, odd balances — and I personally investigate every flag before it becomes a problem.

Know your food cost before it eats your profit.

A restaurant can be packed every night and still bleed. When COGS and labor are categorized right every month, you can see margin slipping while there's still time to react — not in March when your CPA finds it.

Straight answers on cost

What it costs

Monthly bookkeeping
$225 – $900 / month
Set by transaction volume, number of accounts, and how much you want handled. Multi-location and high-volume restaurants quoted individually.
One-time books review
$275 – $800
Written findings on where your books stand. Credited in full toward month one if you become an ongoing client.
Cleanup & catch-up
typically $2,000 – $5,000
By how far back and how tangled. Larger projects quoted by scope.

Not sure where you'd land? The free 15-minute call ends with a real number — not "it depends."

How it starts

From "not sure" to sorted

1

Free 15-minute call

Tell me about your restaurant and your POS; I'll tell you what I'd expect to find in your books.

2

The books review

Written findings: what's right, what's off, what it takes to fix. $275–$800 by size, credits in full toward month one.

3

Cleanup, if needed

A fixed quote before any work starts. You approve the number first.

4

The monthly rhythm

POS reconciled, tips and tax where they belong, food cost visible — every month, with a one-page report.

"He cleaned up our books, he helped us to update all the mess our prior bookkeeper left and helped us get everything YTD. Mike is amazing to work with, so easy and responsive to all our needs."

★★★★★  — JEWELS CC · Google review
Fair questions

FAQ

Why don't my Square or Toast deposits match my sales?

Because the deposit is already net of card fees, tips, refunds, and chargebacks. The fix is a clearing account that matches each batch to the deposit — so your true sales, your fees, and your tips each show up separately and correctly.

How do you handle tips?

As a liability, not revenue — money passing through to your staff. Tracked and cleared each month so they never inflate your sales or your tax.

Do you handle DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub?

Yes. Each platform pays out net of commission; I record the gross sale and the fee separately so you can see what delivery actually costs your margin.

Can you work with my POS and my CPA?

That's the design. I work in your QuickBooks Online file alongside whatever POS you run, and your CPA gets a clean, documented file at tax time — no December scramble.

The next step

Are your restaurant's books actually right?

Fifteen minutes tells us both whether it's a fit — and you'll leave with a real monthly number. No pitch, no pressure, no homework.

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