Inventory Tracking
Food and beverage cost tracked where the margin is decided.
Inventory Tracking
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Daily sales, tips, food and beverage cost and vendor invoices, reconciled on the rhythm a restaurant actually runs on rather than a generic monthly template.
A restaurant does not run on a monthly cycle. It runs on a week, and inside that week the numbers that decide whether it works are food cost, beverage cost and labour as a share of sales. A generic small business bookkeeping template reports none of those usefully.
We build restaurant files around the week. Daily sales imported and reconciled against the settlement record, tips handled correctly, food and beverage cost tracked separately, vendor invoices entered as they arrive, and payroll on the weekly cycle most kitchens run.
Food, beverage and labour as a share of sales is the number a restaurant lives or dies on, and by the time it appears in a monthly report the week that caused it is long gone.
A file built around the week puts that figure in front of you while there is still something to be done about it.
Independent restaurants, cafes, bars, food trucks and small catering operations. Single-site owners who are working in the business as well as on it, which is nearly all of them.
The version of this that hurts most is the operator who knows sales are up and cannot say why the account balance is not. Almost always the answer is in food cost or in third-party delivery fees being netted out before the revenue ever reaches the books.
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Imported and reconciled against the settlement record, so fees are recorded as fees and revenue is the real figure.
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Food and beverage vendors coded separately, which is what makes the cost lines mean anything.
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On the cycle you already use, with tips handled correctly rather than approximately.
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Prime cost and margin visible weekly, not discovered at the end of the month.
Food service is one of two specialisms we name on this site, and we name it because we have built files this way rather than because it sounds good on a services list. Restaurants around Humble and the wider Houston area run tight enough that a two-point swing in food cost is the difference between a good month and a break-even one, and it is invisible unless the file is built to show it.
Where it exports in a form the accounting file can use, yes. We reconcile against the settlement record rather than trusting a summary screen, because the summary rarely accounts for fees, refunds and adjustments the same way the deposit does.
Tips are recorded and run through payroll correctly rather than treated as an off-ledger pass-through. Anything that requires a licensed tax professional stays with one.
Because they behave differently and they fail differently. A single cost of goods line tells you the number moved. Two lines tell you which one moved and what to do about it.
Yes. Delivery revenue and the platform's fees are recorded separately, which is frequently where an operator's missing margin turns out to be sitting.
On a cycle a working kitchen can actually keep. Weekly for high-cost or fast-moving lines, less often for the rest. A cycle you keep beats an ideal one you abandon.
Food and beverage cost tracked where the margin is decided.
Inventory TrackingWeekly payroll on the cycle a kitchen already runs.
Payroll ProcessingThe month assembled on top of a file built around the week.
Monthly Financial Reporting PackageA consultation with the owners, a straight read on what this would take, and a scope in writing before anything starts.
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