Customer story

How S&A Global brought its back office under one partner and found $45K at a single restaurant

S&A Global runs 25 restaurants across owned and managed operations. Its accounting, bookkeeping, AP, payroll, benefits, insurance, and tax work used to sit with five to seven separate firms. Accountally brought it all under one team, and a Profit Discovery review surfaced $45,000 in annual insurance savings at a single location.

“Every time I try to explain Accountally to someone, they have the same response I originally did: that doesn't sound right, that sounds too good to be true.”

Ryan Stock · Founder, S&A Global

$45K

annual savings at one location

Insurance savings identified for a single restaurant through Accountally's Profit Discovery review.

6 → 1

back-office functions, one team

Accounting, bookkeeping, AP, payroll, benefits, insurance, and tax support that used to live across separate firms.

restaurants, one point of contact

One partner across owned and managed hospitality operations.

Challenge

Hospitality runs on thin margins, and the administrative back office, accounting, bookkeeping, AP, payroll, benefits, taxes, and insurance, is critical but unglamorous. S&A Global was handling it across five to seven different firms. Every hour spent coordinating them was an hour pulled from the guest, and insurance in particular was slow and opaque to manage.

Solution

Accountally brought those functions under one team with a single point of contact, so a question about payroll, benefits, AP, or insurance is one email or one call. Onboarding was hands-on rather than transactional, and Accountally ran its Profit Discovery review across the group's spend.

Result

S&A Global now runs its back office through one partner instead of many, with prompt answers and proactive guidance. The Profit Discovery review identified upwards of $45,000 in annual insurance savings at a single restaurant, straight to the bottom line with no operational change.

The challenge

A back office spread across five to seven different firms.

Ryan Stock has spent 25 years in hospitality, from kitchens in Chicago, Miami, and Las Vegas to overseeing P&Ls in the hundreds of millions. Six years ago he started his own group. Today he oversees 25 restaurants across owned operations and a management and development arm that takes on outside projects.

The hard part was never the food. It was the administrative side: accounting, bookkeeping, AP, payroll, benefits, taxes, and insurance, each one critical, none of it glamorous, most of it handled by a different firm. Insurance was the worst of it, opaque on pricing and slow to get quotes even for someone who had managed it for decades. Every hour spent coordinating vendors was an hour off the floor.

Accounting, bookkeeping, AP, payroll, benefits, and insurance split across five to seven firms
No single point of contact for back-office questions
Insurance pricing opaque and slow, even with 25 years of experience
Admin coordination pulling time away from the guest experience

Back office before Before Accountally

Back-office functions

5–7 firms

Single point of contact

None

Insurance pricing

Opaque & slow

Admin time

Pulled from guests

The solution

One team, one point of contact, across every back-office function.

Accountally brought all of those functions under one team. Instead of chasing five to seven separate firms, S&A Global sends one email or makes one call for anything from bookkeeping to benefits to insurance. Onboarding was hands-on, with Accountally supporting the group through each step rather than handing over a checklist and waiting.

Accountally also ran its Profit Discovery review across the group's spend, the kind of proactive review that surfaces savings an operator is not actively looking for. For Ryan, the contrast with the usual hospitality software pitch mattered: this was a real team solving real problems, not another app promising a fix.

“The fact that we can send one email or make one call and reach out to one group for any of these things is worth its weight in gold.”

Ryan Stock · Founder, S&A Global

What Accountally put in place Implemented

Bookkeeping & AP

One team

Payroll & benefits

One team

Insurance & tax

One team

Profit Discovery

Completed

The result

$45K back to the bottom line at one location, and a vocal advocate.

The Profit Discovery review identified upwards of $45,000 in annual savings on insurance for a single one of S&A Global's restaurants, with no effect on anything operational. As Ryan put it, that is liquid cash back into the business.

Beyond the savings, consolidating the back office under one partner took a real load off the operators. Ryan points to prompt responses, proactive guidance on things he was not even thinking about, and the freedom to put his attention back on guests. He has become one of Accountally's most vocal advocates.

Upwards of $45,000 in annual insurance savings identified at one restaurant
Liquid cash to the bottom line, with zero operational change
One partner and one point of contact for the entire back office
Operators freed to focus on guests instead of admin

Operating impact After Accountally

Point of contact

Savings at one location

$45K/yr

Insurance savings

To bottom line

Operator focus

Back on guests

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Ryan Stock on partnering with Accountally

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