Know Your Prime Cost Every Week — and Your Real Profit by the 15th.

Restaurant-ready books, weekly prime cost tracking, a one-page monthly snapshot of your sales, food, beverage and labor costs, and a CPA who reviews every number. Built for restaurant and bar owners, not general small businesses.
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Sample monthly restaurant snapshot showing net sales, food and beverage cost, labor cost and prime cost
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Kinjal and her team are quick and adaptive. She started off with the bookkeeping for several of my hotels. Now her company is an important part of my plans to expand my businesses and manage the financial reporting of my companies.
Pratik Shah · Managing Member, Yuma Hospitality

Most Restaurant Books Are Built for Taxes, Not for Running a Restaurant.

General bookkeepers record transactions. Restaurant owners need to know what each location earned, where the margin went, and what to fix next week. If any of these sound familiar, your numbers are working against you:

• POS sales that never match bank deposits. Card fees, tips, comps and DoorDash or Uber Eats payouts land net, and nobody reconciles them back to sales.

• Food and labor costs you only see once a month. By the time you learn prime cost ran high, the month is already over.

• Tips, payroll and sales tax that don't tie out. Tip credits, tip-outs and sales tax on food and alcohol get recorded wrong, and turn into penalties.

• No view across locations. Comparing your restaurants takes a weekend in spreadsheets.

• Gift cards, comps and voids nobody tracks. Unredeemed gift cards get booked as sales instead of a liability, and discounts quietly shrink your margin.

One Page. Every Number That Matters. Every Month.

Sample one-page Restaurant KPI Snapshot with net sales, food and beverage cost, labor, prime cost and a monthly prime cost trend chart
By the 15th of every month, you get a one-page Restaurant KPI Snapshot alongside your full financial statements. It shows exactly how each location performed, and why:

• Net sales by category (food, beverage, catering, delivery), against last month and last year
• Prime cost: food, beverage and labor as a share of sales
• Labor cost by front and back of house
• Cash position and what's coming due
• A short CPA note on what changed and what's worth acting on

Sample snapshot shown for illustration. Yours will show your restaurant's real numbers.

You Run the Restaurant. We Handle the Numbers.

From recording every transaction to reconciling every account, your day-to-day bookkeeping is taken care of. A CPA reviews the books before anything reaches you.

  1. Free 30-Minute Consult

    Tell us about your restaurant, your systems and what keeps you up at night. We'll share what we'd fix first.

    No commitment
  2. Setup in 2–4 weeks

    We review your current books, set up a restaurant chart of accounts, connect your POS, bank, delivery apps and payroll, and clean up any backlog.

  3. Weekly updates, monthly close

    Sales and deposits reconciled as they come in, prime cost updated every week, and a full monthly close reviewed by a CPA.

  4. Your snapshot by the 15th

    Full financials, weekly prime cost and your one-page Restaurant Snapshot for each location.

  5. 30-minute monthly review

    We walk through the numbers together and agree on what to act on.

    Growth & Multi-Unit plans

Everything Your Restaurant’s Finance Function Needs, Under One CPA

Restaurant Financial Statements

P&Ls built the way operators read them: sales by category, cost of goods, labor and controllable expenses, with prime cost front and center.

Location-Level Bookkeeping

POS sales, cash, card batches, tips and gift cards reconciled to your deposits, and delivery-app payouts matched back to gross sales, so every dollar is accounted for.

Weekly Prime Cost Tracking

Food, beverage and labor costs tracked against sales every week, from your vendor invoices, inventory counts and scheduling data, so you can fix a bad week before it becomes a bad month.

Monthly Restaurant Snapshot

Sales, food and beverage cost %, labor %, prime cost and net margin on one page, compared to last month and the same month last year.

Multi-Unit & Consolidated Reporting

Each location on its own, plus your whole group in one view, with entity-level books for every LLC.

Payroll, Tips, AP & Sales Tax

Front- and back-of-house payroll, tip pools and FICA tip credit, vendor bills, and sales tax filings tracked and on time.

Works with the systems you already use

ToastSquareQuickBooks OnlineDoorDashUber EatsGrubhubCloverMarginEdge7shiftsGustoADP

Using Lightspeed, Aloha, Restaurant365 or another tool? Ask us how it connects.

Plan Ahead, Not Just Look Back

Good books tell you what happened. We also help you plan what comes next, so every big decision starts with real numbers.

Annual Budget & Forecast

A location-by-location budget built from your actual numbers, then tracked against results every month so you can adjust early.

Cash-Flow Planning

See what's coming in and going out over the next 90 days, including payroll, taxes and seasonal swings, so there are no surprises.

Tax-Season Coordination

Year-end books handed to your tax preparer clean and on time, with fixed assets and depreciation tracked all year.

Fixed Monthly Fees. Pick the Level of Insight You Need.

No hourly billing and no surprise invoices. Every package is reviewed by a CPA, with your books in your own QuickBooks Online file.

Essentials

Single location, owner-operated

Starting at$750per month, per location

  • Bookkeeping & monthly reconciliations
  • Weekly POS sales, tips & delivery-app reconciliation
  • Restaurant financial statements
  • Monthly Restaurant Snapshot by the 15th
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Most popular

Growth

Owners who want to act on their numbers every month

Starting at$1,750per month, per location

Everything in Essentials, plus:

  • Payroll, tips, AP and sales tax
  • Weekly prime cost + 30-minute monthly CPA call
  • Gift card, comp & void tracking
  • Food & labor cost alerts when you drift off target
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Multi-Unit CFO

2+ locations, lenders or expansion plans

PricingCustomquoted for your group

Everything in Growth, plus:

  • Location-level and consolidated group P&Ls
  • Optional 13-period (4-week) reporting calendar
  • Lender-ready financial packages
  • Cash-flow forecast & budget
  • Quarterly planning session: budget, cash flow and priorities
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Behind on your books? Catch-up and clean-up of past months is quoted as a one-time project before monthly service begins.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you work with franchise restaurants?

Yes. We work with independent restaurants, bars and franchise locations, from a single unit to multi-location groups.

Which systems do you work with?

We keep books in QuickBooks Online and connect your POS (Toast, Square, Clover and others), DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub payouts, inventory tools like MarginEdge, scheduling tools like 7shifts, your bank, credit cards and payroll provider. Using a different POS? Tell us and we'll confirm how it connects.

Can you report weekly or in 4-week periods?

Yes. Many restaurants close on a 13-period (4-week) calendar so every period has the same number of weekends. We can report that way, and we track prime cost weekly either way.

How do you handle tips, tip credits and service charges?

We record cash and card tips, tip pools and tip-outs so payroll ties back to your POS, and we keep service charges separate from tips because they are taxed differently. We also work with your payroll provider on the FICA tip credit.

What about DoorDash, Uber Eats and Grubhub?

We reconcile each payout back to gross sales, so commissions, fees, promotions and refunds show up as expenses instead of quietly shrinking your revenue. In most states the platform collects sales tax on those orders, so we make sure it is not counted twice.

What is prime cost, and why does it matter?

Prime cost is your cost of goods sold (food and beverage) plus total labor. It is the biggest cost you can control, and many operators aim to keep it around 60–65% of sales. We track it every week so you can act fast.

Is my data safe?

Your books stay in your own QuickBooks Online file, and access is limited to the AYKIN team. A CPA reviews every statement before you see it.

Can you clean up past months?

Yes. We start with a review of your existing books, then quote any catch-up as a one-time project before monthly service begins. We also coordinate with your previous bookkeeper so nothing gets lost in the handoff.

Do you serve restaurants outside California?

Yes. We're based in California and work remotely with restaurant owners nationwide.

How much does it cost?

Fixed monthly fees based on the number of locations and the package, starting at $750 per location. See the packages above, or book a free 30-minute consult.

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Book a free 30-minute consult. We’ll look at how your books are set up today, where your prime cost stands, and the two or three fixes worth making first. No obligation.
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