Bookkeeping for restaurants & cafes
Stakeville provides restaurant and cafe bookkeeping: POS reports reconciled to bank deposits net of fees, tips and payroll handled correctly, prime cost (food + labor) tracked weekly-to-monthly, and sales tax reconciled to filings.
Restaurant books have three failure points: deposits booked as sales (hiding processor fees), tips mishandled in payroll, and food cost that nobody actually tracks. Together they make a busy restaurant look profitable right up until it isn't.
We reconcile POS to bank at the batch level, treat tips and payroll the way wage rules require, track food and labor as prime cost, and keep sales tax tied to filings, so the owner sees real margin, not register optimism.
Where restaurants & cafes books usually break
Deposits ≠ sales
Processor fees and batch timing hiding the real revenue picture.
Tip handling errors
Tips misbooked in payroll, creating wage and filing exposure.
Invisible food cost
No prime-cost view, so menu pricing runs on instinct.
How Stakeville handles it
POS reconciliation
Toast, Square, Clover, and others tied to bank deposits batch by batch.
Tips & payroll
Tip income and payroll integrated correctly with your provider.
Prime cost tracking
Food and labor cost as a percentage of sales, tracked consistently.
Sales tax tie-out
Collected tax reconciled to the liability and the filings.
“Our books were 14 months behind when we found Stakeville. Three weeks later everything reconciled and our CPA filed without a single question.”
“The monthly report is one page and I actually read it. What moved, why, and what to watch. That alone is worth the fee.”
Services for restaurants & cafes
Restaurants & Cafes, common questions
Which POS systems do you work with?
Square, Toast, Clover, and most modern POS platforms, anything that exports batch and sales reports can be reconciled.
Can you track food cost percentage?
Yes, purchases and inventory are structured so food cost and prime cost report accurately every month.
Find out what your books need, free.
A 20-minute Books Health Check: we review your current setup and tell you exactly what it will take to get clean, decision-ready numbers. No pressure, no credentials requested.