What We Handle for Restaurant Groups
Full-service accounting and bookkeeping so your restaurant operation’s financials are clean, compliant, and useful for decision-making.
Prime Cost Management
Weekly food and labor cost tracking so you always know where your prime cost sits. We flag variances before they become profit leaks.
Multi-Location Reporting
P&L by location, by concept, or consolidated across your entire group. See exactly which units are performing and which need attention.
Tip & Gratuity Tracking
Accurate tip pooling, tip credit tracking, and gratuity reporting that keeps you compliant with federal and state labor laws year-round.
Vendor Payment Management
Invoice processing, payment scheduling, and vendor reconciliation so you never miss an early-pay discount or let a past-due bill slip through.
POS System Integration
Direct integration with Toast, Square, Clover, Revel, and MarginEdge. Daily sales, comps, voids, and discounts flow into QuickBooks automatically.
The Royal Revenue System
Our proprietary review process that typically uncovers $10k+ in hidden savings across vendor contracts, tax strategy, and operational waste.
See what clean books look like for your restaurant group
15 minutes. We’ll walk through your current setup and show you exactly what we’d handle.
Not Just Bookkeepers
Most outsourced bookkeeping firms hand your files to data entry clerks. We don’t.
Your books are managed by degreed staff accountants. We have CPAs on our team. Journal entries, financial statement prep, and variance analysis get done right the first time.
Month-end close, financial statement analysis, and reporting that goes beyond recording transactions. We handle the accounting work most bookkeeping firms can’t.
No DIY dashboards or AI-generated reports you have to review yourself. A dedicated accounting team that knows your industry handles everything.
Know Your Real Food Cost Percentage — Every Week
The problem: Most restaurant operators only see their food cost percentage when the monthly P&L lands, weeks after the damage is done. By then, a vendor price increase or portion drift has already eaten your margins.
How we fix it: We pull your COGS and labor data from your POS weekly, calculate prime cost as a percentage of revenue for each location, and flag variances the moment they appear. You see the numbers while there is still time to act on them.
Standardized Reporting Across Every Location
The problem: Each location runs its own way. Different chart of accounts, different coding, different timing. You cannot compare Unit A to Unit B because the numbers are not built the same way.
How we fix it: We build a standardized P&L structure across all your locations so you get true apples-to-apples comparisons on every line item. Same categories, same timing, same level of detail — whether you have two locations or twenty.
Tip Compliance That Does Not Wait Until Tax Time
The problem: Credit card tips, cash tips, pooled tips, and service charges all get tracked differently. Come tax season, reconciling it all is a scramble that risks penalties and frustrated staff.
How we fix it: We reconcile all tip types throughout the year — credit card tips, cash tips, pooled tips, and service charges — categorized correctly for payroll reporting and year-end filings. When tax season arrives, everything is already clean and compliant.
Free: The Restaurant Accounting Checklist
How to track prime cost like a CFO. Weekly COGS tracking, tip reconciliation, vendor payment workflows, and the P&L structure that lets you compare locations on the same metrics every month.
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Ready for Books That Actually Help You Grow?
15 minutes. We’ll walk through your current setup and show you exactly how we’d handle your prime cost tracking, multi-location reporting, and tip compliance.