Streamlined Accounting & Bookkeeping Solutions for Your Restaurant

Specialized accounting and bookkeeping services from America's leading virtual accounting firm help improve your restaurant's finances, manage cash flow, and boost profitability.
Trustpilot
400% ROI*
From small business services on average
25 Hours**
Saved during tax preparation
1 Million+***
Consultations delivered

Powerful Financial Services and Real-Time Insights for Restaurants

Rising labor costs, overhead, and the cost of goods sold (COGS) are shrinking already-low profit margins, making professional, streamlined accounting and bookkeeping solutions essential to successful restaurant operations.

Thriving restaurants use bookkeeping to thoroughly record financial data, which provides them with the best tools for up-to-the-minute decision-making and forecasting. Accountants use that data to produce financial reports, ensuring restaurant owners better understand their profitability, cash flow, and economic future with clarity.

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Restaurant Industry Bookkeeping

We track your revenue and operating expenses and share findings with easy-to-understand reporting.

Talk to Your Restaurant Accountant

Schedule a call whenever you have a question or need advice, or shoot us a quick message.

All Restaurants Welcome

Whether it's your first restaurant or the latest in your portfolio, we work with a diversity of establishments in all 50 states.

"1-800Accountant is great! All of my bookkeeping and accounting has been streamlined, and they are incredibly knowledgeable! Highly recommended."

Testimonials Stars

Nathalia L.

May 2023, Trustpilot

Actual customer testimonial. Photo is illustrative only.

Getting started is easy and free.

Connecting with 1-800Accountant, the restaurant accounting and bookkeeping experts is easy and free. Here's what to do:

1. Select a convenient date and time within your schedule to speak to one of our experts.

2. Tell us about your restaurant's goals and challenges during this 30-minute call, a $199 value.

3. Once fully onboarded, we’ll create a year-round tax strategy to combat and resolve business challenges and match you with a restaurant accountant and bookkeeper experienced in serving the distinct needs of establishments like yours, ensuring a minimal annual tax burden.

Getting started is easy and free.

Specialized Bookkeeping and Accounting Solutions for Restaurants

  • Tax Preparation and Filing
  • Sales Tax Compliance
  • Tax Advisory
  • Quarterly Estimated Taxes
  • Restaurant Bookkeeping Services
  • Entity Formation
  • Payroll Services
Tax Preparation and Filing
We do your tax planning and filing by finding every deduction you’re entitled to and ensuring your restaurant is optimized.

Restaurant Accounting FAQs

The ability to track cash flow, both inflows and outflows, allows for modeling and analyzing when your restaurant receives revenue and when it's time to pay its bills. This insight is essential to improving cash flow, particularly in an industry with low profit margins.
Our streamlined accounting and bookkeeping services for restaurants address cash flow management and budgeting by delivering important insights that support financial data interpretation and forecasting.
Accounting and bookkeeping services for restaurants give owners a complete, up-to-the-minute view of their final situation. Just as the right restaurant location and menu offer a competitive advantage, these professional financial services also do.

You can subtract deductions from your restaurant income when you file so you don't pay that tax. Your restaurant may be able to deduct operating, labor, and food costs, improvements and repairs to your building, and professional fees.

Yes, we can prepare and file your restaurant's business sales taxes on food and beverages. 1-800Accountant can customize a package for your restaurant to address your unique financial requirements.

1-800Accountant offers a robust payroll service to restaurants that handle all your responsibilities each pay period. Your payroll expert will collect and address your employees' hours, earnings, deductions, and other data required to calculate net pay. They will then distribute wages to your employees and report and remit associated taxes to relevant authorities.

Our full-service business tax preparation and filing solution ensures that you can always be confident about your tax situation. Your tax team will ensure that your restaurant is appropriately structured and classified while delivering error-free returns, maximizing your tax savings.

Our payroll service can address your tipped employees' requirements and record their hours and deductions.

Our robust payroll solution addresses employees' hours, earnings, deductions, and other data required to calculate net pay, including abiding by the rules of any state-specific wage laws.

Our accounting and bookkeeping service tracks your financial data and offers reporting and analysis to help you make critical business decisions based on accurate, up-to-the-minute data. These insights can improve several aspects of your restaurant, positively impacting profitability.

Learn How Our Accounting Services Can Streamline Your Operations

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Speak to our experts about streamlined accounting and bookkeeping for your restaurant today!

Get the most out of your restaurant by working with the professionals at 1-800Accountant. All it takes is a quick call to get started!

*Based on a $12.2k average 2022 tax refund per client, which is 4x the cost of a full-service package. Source: first-party data.

**Includes average business tax preparation, form completion and submission, record keeping, and other misc admin time. Source.

***Historical first-party data.