Bookkeeping for Restaurants & Food Businesses
POS deposits, tips, food cost, labor, vendor invoices, delivery-app fees: a food business has tight margins and a lot of moving money. I keep it clean in QuickBooks so you know your real food and labor cost, not a guess.
Why restaurant books get messy fast
- POS deposits aren't your sales. Your processor deposits net of fees, tips, and refunds, so the real sales number is buried inside one lump.
- Tips have to be handled cleanly. Tips collected and paid out run through your books and need to be tracked separately from revenue.
- Food and labor cost are the whole game.If vendor invoices and payroll aren't categorized right, you can't see the two numbers that decide whether you make money.
- Delivery apps take a cut.DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub deposit after their fees, so it's easy to overstate sales and miss what those platforms really cost.
How I keep it clean
- POS & deposits reconciled. Sales matched to deposits and broken out from fees, tips, and refunds so your revenue is real.
- Food cost you can see. Vendor and supplier invoices categorized consistently so cost of goods actually means something.
- Labor tracked cleanly. Payroll and tips categorized so you can watch labor cost against sales month to month.
- Tax-time ready. Clean, current books your accountant or tax preparer can work from without untangling a year of processor deposits.
I keep books for businesses with messy money flow
Card-processor deposits that hide fees and tips, multiple platforms landing in one bank account, costs that have to be split to mean anything: I've reconciled exactly this kind of money flow. I set the books up so your food and labor cost are numbers you can actually run the business on.
Clean books, the right way
I'm a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor and fully insured, so your financial details stay confidential. This is bookkeeping that keeps your records tax-time ready and works alongside your accountant; I don't file taxes or do CPA work.
QuickBooks Certified by Intuit · Levels 1 & 2Want your restaurant's books handled?
Tell me a little about your place: your POS, which delivery apps you use, how you handle tips. Then I'll point you to the right plan and a real price, usually within a day.