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Services

How does The Kitchen CPAs help your restaurant grow?

Running a restaurant takes everything you’ve got. Your finances shouldn’t. We handle the back office — bookkeeping, tax, payroll, and CFO-level guidance — so you can run the floor.
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What we do

Five ways we take the back office off your plate. Every engagement is scoped to your concept, your stack, and your stage — and everything lives under one roof, with one team.

12+ years

working in restaurants, from busboy to manager

15+ years

 in senior corporate finance

$2B+

raised for businesses across public markets, venture capital and private equity
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Why us

Your CPA hasn't worked the line. We have.

Most CPAs serving restaurants are good at accounting and decent at restaurants. We're built the other way around. Twelve years on the line — busser, cook, bartender, manager — before fifteen years in senior corporate finance. So when we look at your books, we see what a chef sees and what a CFO sees at the same time. That's not a marketing claim. It's a hiring rubric.
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Benefits

Six things you get when the back office actually works.

Kitchen CPAs is built for restaurants that need finance, not filing. Here's what changes when the books close weekly, cash flow forecasts run four weeks ahead, and someone senior picks up the phone.

Save time and money

Quarterly tax estimates, 13-week rolling cash forecasts, and proactive guidance — so you know what's coming before it arrives.

Improve cash flow

13-week rolling forecast updated weekly. You spot the shortfall four weeks before it becomes a crisis.

Reduce risk and stress

Stop reconciling at midnight. We handle bookkeeping, payroll, sales tax, and vendor management — so you don't have to.

Free up time to grow

Your job is the restaurant. Ours is everything that supports it. You handle service. We handle the back office.

Eliminate surprises

Quarterly estimates and proactive planning mean you know what April looks like by October. The cash is already set aside.

Fell supported

A real partner who picks up the phone — not a firm that emails you a P&L and disappears until next month.
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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

A restaurant CPA understands how the business actually runs — prime cost, tip credits, POS reconciliation, comps and voids — not just debits and credits. We reconcile Toast or Square to your books, claim the FICA tip credit, file Form 8027 on time, and read your P&L the way an operator does. A generalist treats a restaurant like a retail shop with a kitchen attached.

Both. We work with independents from a single location up to multi-unit groups, with a sweet spot around $2M–$50M in revenue. Whether you’re cleaning up one set of books or consolidating several entities, the systems are built to scale with you.

Yes. We’re fluent in Toast, Square, Restaurant365, MarginEdge, and QuickBooks Online, and we integrate with the stack you already run — we don’t make you switch systems or rebuild your back office to work with us.

The FICA tip credit (IRC §45B) is a federal income-tax credit for the employer’s share of Social Security and Medicare taxes paid on employee tips above the threshold frozen at $5.15/hour — and it’s claimed on Form 8846. Many restaurants under-claim or miss it entirely. We calculate it correctly and capture it — often a meaningful annual saving for tipped operations.

Talk to a restaurant CPA

30 minutes, no commitment. We’ll walk through your books, your operation,
and what we’d do differently.

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