Bookkeeping for BC restaurants, cafés, and bars
Restaurants generate more transactions in a week than many businesses do in a month, and the margins leave no room for guessing. We reconcile your point-of-sale data to your deposits, keep food and liquor costs visible, and run payroll that handles tips correctly.
What makes these books different
POS to bank reconciliation
Daily sales from Square, Clover, Shopify POS, or your system of choice matched to card settlements and cash deposits, net of processing fees.
Food and beverage costs
Food, liquor, and supplies tracked as separate cost lines, so you can watch margins against menu prices.
Tips and gratuities
Tips the business collects and distributes can be treated differently from tips customers hand directly to staff, with different payroll consequences. Payroll is set up to match how your tips actually flow.
Delivery platforms
Delivery app payouts recorded at gross sales, with commissions and fees expensed, so the sales on your GST return are right.
Compliance we keep on top of
GST and PST on food and drink
GST applies to restaurant meals. BC PST generally doesn't apply to food, but liquor carries a 10% PST rate — so food and liquor sales need to be recorded separately.
High-turnover payroll
Frequent hiring means frequent onboarding, Records of Employment, and vacation pay tracked under BC's Employment Standards Act.
Common questions
Do you work with our POS system?
We work from the reports and exports that Square, Clover, Shopify POS, and most other systems produce. If your system can export daily sales and settlements, we can reconcile it.
Other industries
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