Bookkeeping for Restaurants, Bars & Cafes
Bookkeeping for Restaurants & Cafes – Stop Drowning in Receipts
Get out of the back office and back on the floor. Corviniti provides industry-specific bookkeeping for restaurants, cafes, and hospitality groups, accurately tracking your daily sales, food and beverage costs, and payroll so you never have to guess your true margins or prime costs again.
We manage your books directly within QuickBooks to maintain clean, accrual-based records. Rather than relying on messy automated data dumps that miscategorize tips and sales tax, our team knows exactly how to pull and interpret the reporting from the POS and inventory platforms you already use, including Toast, Square, TouchBistro, and Lightspeed. We reconcile your front-of-house data with your general ledger, giving you a crystal-clear, accurate view of profitability on every shift and service.
We work with various platforms common in the industry
POS-to-Bank Accuracy
Always Tax-Ready
Reclaim Your Evenings
True Prime Cost Tracking
Bookkeeping:
Simple, Fixed Monthly Pricing
Explore our pricing options tailored for the hospitality industry. Each plan is designed to provide value, whether you run a neighborhood cafe or a multi-location restaurant group.
Basics
Reliable, accurate bookkeeping every month. Best for small cafes or food trucks with < $50k monthly expenses.
$250
/month
- Monthly bank and card reconciliation
- Expense categorization with bank rules
- Monthly financial statements
Essential
MOST POPULAR
Clear numbers to support growth. Best for growing electrical businesses managing multiple vans, < $75k monthly expenses.
$350
/month
- Everything in Basics
- Light AR and AP tracking
- Quarterly performance summary
- Priority support
Professional
Comprehensive support for larger operations dealing with complex job costing, commercial bids, and inventory
$850
/month
- Everything in Essential
- Custom reports and KPI dashboards
- Accrual, payroll, and loan tracking
- Monthly statement walkthroughs
Offer Valid May 2026
ONE FREE MONTH
Discount Code!
Valid for May 2026 only, we are offering one free month of bookkeeping. Just complete click “Get Discount Code” below to get the discount code emailed directly to you. See store for details.
Specialized Bookkeeping Built for the Hospitality Industry
What makes us different
Running a restaurant means managing high-velocity, complex financial data: daily cash drops, third-party delivery payouts (UberEats, DoorDash), fluctuating vendor invoices, and complex payroll with tip pooling. Generic bookkeeping categorizes these all the same way, leaving you blind to your actual margins. Corviniti builds the specialized financial foundation restaurants need to control costs and scale profitably.
We do your core accounting directly in QuickBooks. We understand the reporting structures of top point-of-sale tools like Toast, Square, TouchBistro, and Lightspeed. By expertly translating this front-of-house (FOH) data and aligning it with your general ledger, we deliver precise margin breakdowns on food, liquor, and labor.
Why Restaurants, Bars & Cafes Partner With Corviniti
- Clean Trial Balance: Complete and fully reconciled accounting records, every single month.
- Precision Costing (COGS): We structure your ledger so you can isolate the costs of direct food, liquor, beer, wine, and paper goods.
- Clean Software Translation: We bridge the gap between your POS system and your bank account, ensuring revenue, sales tax, and tips are recognized correctly.
- Third-Party Delivery Reconciliation: We untangle the fees, commissions, and payouts from delivery apps so your revenue numbers are strictly accurate.
- Tax-Ready Year-Round: Your books are kept continuously accurate and structured for a seamless handoff at tax time.
Our Bookkeeping Services
Monthly Bookkeeping
We run a disciplined closing process to keep your general ledger current. This includes reconciling all bank and credit card accounts, categorizing food purveyor and utility expenses, and delivering clear monthly Income and Cash Flow statements.
- Account Reconciliation: Balance all bank, credit card, loan, and merchant processing accounts at the close of every month.
- Transaction Categorization: Ensure accurate coding of all income, operating expenses, and capital expenditures under clear accounting standards.
- Financial Statement Delivery: Provide timely monthly reporting packages, including the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow statement.
- Audit & Tax Readiness: Maintain clean general ledger data and supporting schedules to ensure seamless handoffs to external tax preparers or auditors.
- Advisory & Communication: Deliver ongoing support to answer day-to-day accounting questions and process necessary ledger adjustments.
Cleanup and Catch-Up
Behind on your books after a busy holiday season or a rough launch? We will reconstruct backlogged records, untangle commingled inventory purchases, fix misallocated expenses, and rebuild a clean financial trail.
- Historical Reconstruction: Process and organize months or years of backlogged transactions to rebuild missing financial periods.
- Ledger Diagnostics: Review, correct, and reclassify historical errors, misallocated expenses, and duplicate ledger entries.
- Discrepancy Resolution: Reconcile broken ties, clear old open items, and resolve differences between bank statements and your books.
- Chart of Accounts Clean-Up: Restructure your historical financial data to match your current business model and reporting needs.
- Closing Support: Deliver fully reconciled financial records and audit-ready schedules to resolve outstanding compliance or tax obligations.
Financial Planning & Analysis
Turn your historical numbers into actionable strategy. We provide forward-looking cash flow forecasting, budget-to-actual tracking, and scenario modeling to help you decide when it’s safe to open a second location or revamp the menu.
- Rolling Cash Flow Forecasting: Build and maintain forward-looking cash models to project liquidity, burn rate, and runway.
- Budgeting and Tracking: Create structured annual budgets aligned with your operational targets and tracking milestones.
- Budget-to-Actual Variance Analysis: Deliver regular budget-to-actual reporting to identify spending trends and performance gaps early.
- Custom Executive Reporting: Develop tailored KPI dashboards and financial packages for management, board, or investor reviews.
- Scenario Modeling: Evaluate the financial impact of strategic choices, including hiring plans, capital expenditures, or expansion.
For more information pricing for clean-up and catch-up services or consulting services, please contact us for more information.
Why Choose Corviniti?
Flexible Mont-to-Month Bookkeeping
Cost-Effective Financial Support
We understand the nature of running a hospitality business; new items are added to the to-do list than get checked off! Well, let us check off bookkeeping for you.
- Built for Small Businesses
- Tax-Preparer Ready Year-Round
- Simple, No-Hassle Process
- Flexible Support That Grows With You
Contact Us For
Bookkeeping Services
Call: (347) 472-1115
Email: info@corviniti.com
Contact us to learn more about our bookkeeping services and how we could be a good fit for your restaurant, bar, cafe, catering or hospitality business. A member of our team will follow up within 24 hours.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We understand the specific financial mechanics of the hospitality industry. We structure your chart of accounts to accurately separate your Cost of Goods Sold (food, liquor, paper) and direct labor from your fixed overhead (rent, insurance), allowing you to accurately track your prime costs and gross margins.
Our fixed monthly service covers your core accounting needs: bank and credit card statement reconciliation, expense categorization (including vendor payouts and utilities), and standard financial reporting. It ensures your books are accurate, balanced, and ready for tax season every single month.
We offer flexible, month-to-month bookkeeping without locking you into long-term contracts. Your services automatically renew each month to ensure uninterrupted support, but you are always free to adjust or cancel your engagement as your business needs change with a simple 30-day notice.
We do not offer API integrations, software implementations, or financial system scaling services. Instead, we focus on pure, accurate accounting. We pull the necessary reports from platforms like Toast, Square, or TouchBistro and manually translate that data into your QuickBooks ledger. This ensures total financial accuracy without the messy duplicate entries that often come from automated software syncing.
Delivery apps are notorious for muddying revenue with hidden commissions and fees. We reconcile the net deposits hitting your bank account against the gross sales reports, ensuring that the fees are properly expensed and your top-line revenue is recorded accurately.
Yes. If you utilize specialized outside vendors (such as deep cleaning crews, knife sharpening services, or equipment repair technicians), we ensure those payments are accurately coded throughout the year. We also track who has submitted a W-9, making the process of issuing 1099s at year-end straightforward.
Yes. As licensed CPAs, we can either prepare tax-ready books for your tax preparer, or we are happy to do the tax returns for you for an additional fee.
For monthly bookkeeping clients, we update and reconcile your accounts at the end of each month and provide financial reports on a consistent timeline. (We can of course update your books more frequently than that, for an increased fee.)
Absolutely. We offer historical clean-up and catch-up services. We will review your unorganized records, untangle commingled expenses, eliminate duplicate POS entries, and build a clean financial trail to get your books completely current.
Simply fill out our contact form or give us a call. We will set up a brief consultation to discuss your current sales volume, look over your existing QuickBooks setup, and provide a clear statement of work.
