Bookkeeping for Restaurants

The books behind a well‑run kitchen.

Bistro Bookkeeping Services keeps your restaurant's numbers as tight as your line — daily sales, food costs, payroll, and remittances, handled by a CPA who speaks restaurant.

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✓CPA‑led
✓Restaurant & Hospitality focus
✓Square, Toast & Lightspeed friendly
✓Based in British Columbia
Our Approach

Most bookkeepers tell you what happened last month. We tell you what your restaurant can afford to do next.

Restaurant finances move fast — thin margins, daily cash, tips, and a dozen delivery platforms all landing in one bank feed. We build a bookkeeping rhythm that keeps up, so your numbers are ready the moment you need them, not scrambled together at tax time.

"Clear books. Calmer kitchens."

Bookkeeping Services

Built around how restaurants actually run

Whether you need ongoing monthly support or your books need to be brought back from the brink, here's how we help.

Ongoing

Monthly Bookkeeping

  • Daily sales & POS reconciliation (Square, Toast, Lightspeed, TouchBistro)
  • Bank & credit card reconciliation
  • Food & beverage cost tracking (COGS) by category
  • Third‑party delivery reconciliation (DoorDash, Uber Eats, SkipTheDishes)
  • Tips, gratuities & tip‑payout tracking
  • Monthly financial reports, including prime cost

A dedicated bookkeeper on your numbers every month, so you always know your food cost, labour cost, and margin — not just your bank balance.

One‑Time

Clean-Up & Catch-Up

  • Review and recategorize months (or years) of transactions
  • Bank & credit card accounts fully reconciled
  • Chart of accounts rebuilt for a restaurant P&L
  • POS and payment processor accounts untangled
  • GST/PST review and correction
  • Tax‑ready financials handed off to your accountant

Ideal if you're behind, switching bookkeepers, or getting audit- and year-end-ready before moving to monthly support.

Independent Restaurants

Single-location cafés, bistros, and full-service restaurants that need clean, reliable books without hiring in-house.

Multi-Unit Operators

Owners running two or more locations who need consolidated reporting and consistent numbers across every site.

Bars, Cafés & Caterers

Any food & beverage business juggling high transaction volume, tips, and tight margins.

Pricing

Transparent pricing. No surprises, just reliable books.

Flat, predictable pricing based on your restaurant's size and transaction volume — never a surprise invoice.

— Bistro Bookkeeping Services · Rate Card —
Monthly Bookkeeping $500–$1,000/mo

Priced by transaction volume, number of locations, and payroll complexity.

Clean-Up / Catch-Up 50% × months behind

Calculated as 50% of your quoted monthly rate, multiplied by the number of months to bring current.

QuickBooks File Repair Quoted separately

For structural fixes — chart of accounts, bank connections, opening balances, or POS integration issues.

✦ Add-Ons ✦
Payroll for tipped staff GST/PST filing WorkSafeBC remittances Year-end support for your accountant

Every engagement starts with a $200 Diagnostic Review — credited toward any service you move forward with.

Mohit Bains, CPA
Mohit Bains, CPA Founder & Principal
About Bistro Bookkeeping

A CPA who understands the rhythm of a kitchen.

I started Bistro Bookkeeping Services because standard small-business accounting wasn't built for restaurants. Restaurants run on high transaction volume, tight margins, perishable inventory, and constant daily cash flow — things most generalist bookkeepers treat as afterthoughts.

As a CPA, my focus is delivering the financial clarity restaurant owners need to make confident decisions every week, not just at tax time.

— Mohit Bains, CPA
CPAChartered Professional Accountant
BCBased in British Columbia
100%Dedicated to Restaurants & Hospitality
How We Work

A clean, predictable process from day one

Step 01

Diagnostic Review

We perform a deep dive into your current accounting file, POS setups, and bank connections to identify errors, missing data, and structural needs.

Step 02

Clean-Up & Setup

We rebuild your chart of accounts for restaurant reporting, untangle payment processor feeds, and bring past months up to date.

Step 03

Monthly Rhythm

You get weekly sales recons, monthly margin reports, and tax-ready financials delivered directly to your inbox with zero hassle.

Contact

Let's discuss your books.

Schedule a free 20-minute consultation to talk through your current accounting, pain points, and how we can support your restaurant.

Location British Columbia, Canada
Focus Restaurants, Bars, Cafés & Caterers