Run your shop on real numbers.
Restaurants, bars, quick-service operators, multi-unit chains, and F&B brands. We build the bookkeeping foundation and financial leadership that lets you run the operation with confidence behind the counter.
F&B is the rare industry where revenue lives across four or five sales channels and the books almost never reflect what actually happened that week. We fix the foundation first.
The work isn't to grow revenue. It's to make the numbers true.
Most F&B operators we meet aren't dealing with a sales problem. They're dealing with books that can't tell them how much money is on hand, where it lives, or whether the operation is actually on solid footing.
Sales are strong but you can't tell how much cash is actually available to operate with.
Revenue flows through Toast, DoorDash, UberEats, and direct channels with no unified view.
Multiple entities (S-Corp parent, operating LLC) tracked separately with no consolidated picture.
No structured monthly close, no segregated tax accounts, no real cash visibility.
Reconciliations are weeks behind and inconsistent across channels.
You're growing to multiple locations but each new unit is a financial unknown.
Financial leadership built for the way F&B actually runs.
In F&B, the work starts with making the foundation true. From there, the strategic work follows.
Multi-channel revenue reconciliation
Toast, DoorDash, UberEats, Square, direct sales — all categorized correctly and reconciled to bank deposits. One unified revenue picture, every month.
Multi-entity consolidation
Operating LLCs, S-Corp holding entities, and management companies consolidated into one performance view. Intercompany tracked correctly.
Cash architecture & segregation
Segregated buckets for operating, payroll, tax, marketing, and savings. So you know exactly what's available, where, and what's already spoken for.
Prime cost & margin tracking
Weekly food and labor cost tracking against prime cost targets. So you catch the slip in the week it happens, not in the month-end report.
Month-end close discipline
Standardized close pipeline, controller review, and a monthly performance review you can actually rely on. The numbers stop being a guess.
Multi-unit & expansion economics
Unit-level P&Ls that roll up cleanly, new-location modeling, and the financial infrastructure to know which units deserve more capital.
The Stabilization Approach.
For F&B operators with real revenue but a foundation that hasn't been built yet, we deploy a three-pillar approach: consolidate the entities, build month-end discipline, and bring real cash visibility — in that order.
Entity Consolidation
Building one source of truth
- Operating LLC reconciled across all accounts
- Holding entities reconciled separately
- Intercompany tracking and consolidation
- Single consolidated monthly performance review
Month-End Discipline
The close pipeline
- Standardized 11-step month-end process
- Bank and credit card reconciliation across entities
- Multi-channel revenue categorization
- Payroll audits and Controller First Review
Cash Visibility
Knowing what you have
- Weekly bank feed categorization
- Card sync and reconciliation (e.g., Ramp)
- Segregated cash architecture (operating, payroll, tax, marketing, savings)
- Pro-forma forecasting
It works.
Most recent example: a single-location quick-service restaurant with two related entities, multi-channel revenue across Toast and major delivery platforms, and books that couldn't tell ownership how much cash was actually on hand.
Books made true. Cash made clear. Foundation set.
We deployed the Stabilization Approach in mid-2025. Within seven months, the operation had a fully consolidated two-entity view, an 11-step month-end close on a steady cadence, segregated cash architecture across both businesses, and 2.77× the cash on hand — with the foundation now ready for forward-looking strategic work.
Curious about the underlying services?
See how our fractional CFO and financial operations services work across every industry we serve.
Confidence behind the counter.
Start with a Drake Check. We'll show you exactly where your F&B finances are leaking cash, clarity, or control — and what we'd do about it.
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