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Whether you’re a successful restaurant concept opening a new location, or a brand new restaurateur opening your very first storefront, a shiny new restaurant is always exciting! While you’re probably thinking a lot about your dollar return on investment and what profits will look like, you may not be so focused on how the startup

Many restaurant owners set up their restaurants so that they can serve great food, not so they can spend hours working on very detailed bookkeeping. If you are spending too much time on your accounting, have no confidence in your numbers and KPIs, or – worse – your accounting is so out of date that

Calculating your restaurant labor cost percentage is essential to running a successful restaurant. The labor cost percentage is the amount of money you spend on employee wages and benefits as it compares to your total sales. This number is significant because it tells you how much profit you’re making on each dollar that comes through

You already know the benefits of offering gift cards for your restaurant: bringing in new customers, encouraging customer loyalty, and providing a “guarantee” of revenue for your eatery. Accounting for those gift cards correctly is an important part of maintaining accurate financials. In collaboration with Toast, the Fork CPAs team members Raffi Yousefian, CPA and

You may not like it, but taking consistent and correct inventory counts is essential to having actionable information. When restaurant operators skip inventory counts, they run the risk of running out of necessary ingredients, cramping cash flow with too much or the wrong inventory, and making poor menu pricing decisions. In collaboration with Toast, our

The AP process (“Accounts Payable”) is accounting jargon for processing and paying invoices as they come due. Restaurants engage many suppliers to obtain the resources and services their establishments need, from the food and beverage items served, to linens and serviceware used, to cleaning and kitchen supplies and appliances, to support services such as legal,

We’re going to share some restaurant accounting industry secret sauce: the MarginEdge EDI and Reconciliation tool. The MarginEdge EDI and Reconciliation tool helps restaurant managers and accountants process invoices and bill pay much faster than doing everything by hand by implementing AI and automation, so that all the legwork happens in the background – instead

For restaurants and other businesses that use a Point of Sale (POS) system, it’s very likely you have seen offers to borrow money from your POS vendor through a POS loan. These offers promise “fast” and “easy” money with limited application requirements. Are POS loans a great source of cash for you? Or are they