The Financial Side of Your Restaurants, Handled.
Accounting and CFO Advisory services for restaurant owners, from one location to multi-unit hospitality groups.
- Hard Close Every Month in 10 Business Days
- Weekly Cash Flow and Forecast
- Real Margin Reporting, By Location
- Prime Cost Every Week
- CFO Advice Built on Numbers You Can Trust
Accounting
Books you can trust, using technology and human judgment.
- A hard close within ten business days, every month
- A weekly cash flow report and a rolling multi-week forecast
- Profit and loss by location, plus consolidated statements every month
- Daily sales reconciled from the register to the bank
- Prime cost by location every week, against sales and target
- Full vendor and AP management
- Payroll with tips and service charges handled correctly
- Sales tax by channel, filed on your state’s schedule
- Invoice-level cost tracking, with price changes on top items flagged
- A monthly owner’s report in plain language
CFO Advisory
Expert guidance from the team that knows your business.
- New concept financial modeling, including site economics, lease review, capital plan
- Lease-or-buy modeling when considering real-estate
- What the business is worth today and what would make it worth more
- Sale readiness, after-tax proceeds, and support through the deal
- How much capital to raise, in what form
- Tax planning and strategy
- First concept modeling and analysis
- Investor and lender packages
- Partner buy-in and buy-out structures
- Owner financial planning and wealth management through our affiliated RIA
Our Simple Four-Step Process = Less Work For You, Great Financials, and Clarity
Connect and Upload
Your point of sale, bank, and payroll connect to us once. After that, your team scans invoices and receiving documents as they come in. We tell you exactly what we need and make it easy to send.
YouWe Handle the Details
We reconcile your sales every day, code your payables, run payroll for your approval, and close your books within ten business days of month end. You run the restaurant.
We do thisYou Get Clear Reports
A profit and loss you can trust, your cash forecast every week, and prime cost reporting you can use. No spreadsheets to dig through, no questions about whether the numbers are right.
We do thisWe Talk It Through
You never have to wonder what is happening with your books. We flag what we see as the month goes along, answer questions within one business day, and sit down with you every month.
Together
Great Software + AI + Decades of Experience in Restaurant Finance
Our accounting process is built, managed, and reviewed by a team with a lifetime of experience in financial analysis and restaurant finance. And we use AI and the best software available to close your books faster and catch problems sooner. This is where our industry is going. Faster books are only part of it. The point is to help you understand and improve your margins, so your business is more profitable. We intend to stay at the forefront of what is technologically possible for the benefit of our clients.
David Lyon, CFP®, EA, CEPA®
I have spent my whole career in finance and hospitality. I started at 16 in a coffee shop, washing dishes and then learning to close. I studied finance and accounting at Boston University and worked in restaurants to pay for it.
After school I joined General Electric and spent several years in finance and accounting leadership roles in Sydney, Paris, London, and New York. At 29 I left corporate finance to do what I had always wanted to do. Over the next ten years I developed, owned, and operated a restaurant in Paris (my wife is French) and then franchise restaurants in California.
Through all of it, I came to find that my peace of mind as an operator depended on understanding my books, cash, taxes, and how the financial puzzle fit together. I started helping other owners with those questions, went back into finance to do it properly, and earned the CFP, Enrolled Agent, and Certified Exit Planning Advisor designations along the way.
How We Build Our Engagements
We Listen
A short conversation about your business, your systems, and your goals. You tell us what is frustrating you. We tell you how we can help and what the next step looks like. No fee, no obligation.
What you leave with: a clear answer on whether we are a fit.
We Assess
We review your books, your accounting processes, your prime cost, and your cash position. We learn your business and find out what is actually happening in it. We put our findings in writing and walk you through them. There is no fee, and if you stop there, the report is yours.
What you leave with: a written assessment of your accounting and what needs to change.
We Define
Together we choose the service modules that make sense for your business. You see how each one is delivered and what to expect every week and every month. Every deliverable and its monthly fee are written down before you sign anything.
What you leave with: a formal proposal.
We Implement
We put your new accounting processes in place on a set schedule, scoped to the modules you chose. A restaurant chart of accounts by location. Point-of-sale and bank feeds. Payroll and payables workflows with your approvals built in. We deliver the first clean close.
What you leave with: a reliable accounting function and a set of books you can trust.