Food cost, labor percentage, multi-location. We speak your language, track your metrics, and help you scale, right here in Tampa.
Food cost, labor percentage, multi-location. We've worked with dozens of restaurants & hospitality companies in Tampa. We understand your business model, your challenges, and what metrics matter most to you and your investors.
Restaurant finance is a weekly discipline, not a monthly one. Prime cost — food plus labour — moves fast enough that a monthly close tells you about a problem three weeks after it started costing money. Multi-location groups need the same numbers per site before any of it is useful.
Full-stack financial services tailored to restaurants & hospitality businesses in Tampa.
Expert bookkeeping at a fraction of the cost
Bank reconciliations, transaction categorization, and monthly close
Run a tighter ship with a controller at the helm
Process improvement, internal controls, and accounting oversight
Standard and custom financial reporting
Financial statements, custom reports, and GAAP compliance
Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis
Financial planning and analysis to drive strategic decisions
Strategic financial leadership when you need it
Financial strategy, fundraising support, and board-level reporting
Standard and custom financial reporting. Financial statements, custom reports, and GAAP compliance Tailored specifically for restaurants & hospitality companies in Tampa.
Understand your business model and reporting requirements.
Set up chart of accounts and reporting templates.
Monthly financial package with variance analysis.
Based in Boston, we work with restaurants & hospitality companies across the country.
We serve restaurants & hospitality businesses throughout the Tampa metro area. Our accounting services are available for companies of all sizes.
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Find My Solution →Prime cost is the number that decides whether a restaurant makes money, and it moves week to week with purchasing, waste and scheduling. Finding out at month end that food cost ran four points high means the money is already gone. Weekly, it is a correctable operating problem.
Booked gross with each commission, marketing fee and adjustment recorded as its own line. Recording the net deposit as revenue hides the true cost of the channel — and delivery is frequently the line doing meaningful volume at negative contribution once it is measured properly.
Bank, card and payment-processor reconciliation to zero unexplained difference; AP and AR aging tied to their balance sheet control accounts; payroll and employer taxes posted and reconciled; accruals, prepaids and deferred revenue booked; depreciation posted; a full balance sheet reconciliation with a schedule behind every account; and a variance review against budget and prior month before anything is distributed.
Ten business days is a comfortable standard for most businesses under $20M, and that is what we run to. Five is realistic for a simple single-entity company with automated feeds. If yours takes twenty, the cause is almost always sequencing rather than staffing — cash has to reconcile before AP, AP before accruals, accruals before the P&L means anything.
Yes. Budget roughly 1.5x the normal monthly rate for each month being cleaned up, with a floor around $1,500. Twelve months behind at an $800/month run rate is realistically a $10,000–$15,000 project, and it has to finish before ongoing work produces trustworthy numbers.
Yes. We work with clients across the Southeast and nationwide. Our team operates in Eastern time and can accommodate your schedule.