Tier 1
Starter
Solo owners and small operators.
$149
/month
Best fit if:
- Transactions: under 50/month
- Monthly expenses: under $10K
- Accounts: 1–2 accounts
Industry · Restaurants
Restaurant Bookkeeping Services for Florida Owners
Restaurants run on margin, and margin runs on the numbers. SoFlo360 keeps food cost, labor, tips, and daily sales reconciled monthly so you actually know what each shift made — not just what the bank account looks like.
The Problem
Restaurant numbers move fast. The books need to keep up.
Most restaurant owners run on instinct — a sense for whether last week felt busy. But food cost can drift 3 points in a month and labor can creep without anyone noticing, and by the time it shows up on a year-end statement, six months of profit are gone. We close the books monthly and reconcile daily sales so problems are visible while you can still fix them.
What We Track
What we track for restaurants
The line items that actually move the needle in a restaurant's P&L — set up properly and updated every month.
Food and beverage COGS
Cost of goods sold split into food, beer, wine, and liquor — each category tracked against its own margin target so you can see which side of the menu is leaking.
Labor cost and prime cost
Total labor as a percent of sales, FOH versus BOH split, plus prime cost (COGS + labor) — the single number most independent restaurants live or die by.
Tip reporting and tip pools
Tips reported, allocated, and reconciled against payroll so the books match what employees actually received and what's reported to the IRS.
Daily sales reconciliation
POS end-of-day reports tied back to bank deposits and credit card batches — so the books reflect actual sales, not just what landed in the account.
Inventory and waste
Monthly inventory counts feeding actual COGS (beginning + purchases − ending) so margins stay accurate and waste shows up before it becomes a habit.
Florida sales tax and surtax
Sales tax tracked by category — prepared food, alcohol, retail — at the right state-plus-county rate, ready for the monthly DOR filing.
Specifics
Why restaurant bookkeeping is different
Most generic bookkeepers treat a restaurant like any other small business. The result: numbers that don't line up with how the operator actually runs the place.
Generic bookkeeping
Treats your books like a service business
Everything goes into broad categories. COGS is one line. Labor is one line. Tips are an afterthought. The P&L looks tidy but tells you nothing useful.
- One generic COGS line
- Tips lumped with payroll
- No daily sales reconciliation
- Sales tax handled at year-end
SoFlo360 for restaurants
Set up the way restaurants actually run
Chart of accounts built for restaurant operations. Daily sales reconciled. Tips tracked separately. Prime cost visible every month.
- Food / beer / wine / liquor split
- Tip pool and tip-out tracked
- POS-to-bank daily reconciliation
- Monthly Florida sales tax filing prep
Pricing
Transparent monthly pricing.
Same pricing structure across every industry we serve. Volume and complexity set the tier — not the kind of business you run.
Tier 2
Growth
Established small businesses ready for a real monthly close.
$399
/month
Best fit if:
- Transactions: 50–200/month
- Monthly expenses: $10K–$50K
- Accounts: 3–4 accounts
Tier 3
Scale
Growing businesses with more complexity and advisory needs.
$799
/month
Best fit if:
- Transactions: 200–500/month
- Monthly expenses: $50K–$200K
- Accounts: 5+ accounts
See the full pricing breakdown including complexity adders, cleanup pricing, and FAQ.
FAQ
Common questions about restaurants bookkeeping.
We prepare the books so the sales tax filing is ready to submit — including state plus county surtax broken out correctly. We do not submit the filing to the Florida Department of Revenue on your behalf; you or your CPA file it. If you'd rather have the filing done for you, we'll refer you to a partner who handles that.
Yes. We work with Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, and most other restaurant POS platforms. The point isn't which POS — it's that the end-of-day reports get reconciled to the bank and credit card processor every day, not weekly or monthly.
Yes. Catch-up bookkeeping is a big part of what we do — restaurants tend to fall behind faster than other small businesses because the day-to-day eats the calendar. We scope catch-up by months behind, then transition to monthly bookkeeping once the file is current.
We offer payroll support — payroll setup, running payroll for smaller restaurants, employee payment tracking, and payroll-related bookkeeping including tips. For complex multi-location payroll with tip pooling at scale, we'll often recommend pairing us with a dedicated payroll provider like Gusto or QuickBooks Payroll and coordinating with them.
Single-location independents up through small multi-unit groups. If you're a 50+ unit chain with a dedicated controller, we're probably not the right fit. The sweet spot is one to four locations where the owner is still close to the operation.
Ready for cleaner books?
Book a free consultation. We'll review where your books stand today and recommend the right next step — monthly bookkeeping, catch-up, or QuickBooks cleanup.