Full Plate.Restaurant AccountingFull Plate.Restaurant AccountingFull Plate Restaurant Accounting handles the bookkeeping, sales tax, and annual federal filing* for single-location independent restaurants and bars across Florida — so you can read your numbers as clearly as a Friday-night ticket rail.
*Annual federal filing means your business's federal income tax return, prepared and filed by a licensed Enrolled Agent or CPA on our team from the books we've kept all year.
Every restaurant owner we work with already has a full plate — service, staff, vendors, the fryer that won't stop acting up. Bookkeeping is one more thing on that plate that shouldn't have to be yours. That's the whole idea behind the name: we take the books, the tax filing, and the sales tax deadlines off your plate, so you're left with just the parts of the business only you can run. Here's exactly what that looks like:
Each engagement is built around how restaurants actually operate — daily sales swings and tipped payroll — not a generic small-business chart of accounts.
Pricing scales with your gross revenue, location count, and complexity. Below are typical starting points.
For single-location restaurants doing $500K–$1.5M in annual gross revenue.
For single-location restaurants doing $1.5M–$3M in annual gross revenue.
For single-location restaurants doing $3M–$10M in annual gross revenue.
| Additional service | Rate |
|---|---|
| Catch-up / cleanup bookkeeping | $75–$100/hr |
| New restaurant setup | Fixed quote |
*Annual tax prep included with active plans covers the current tax year only, filed from books we've maintained, and requires a full 12 months of active plan history — see FAQ for full eligibility terms.
**If a payment is missed, accounting software access is suspended immediately; continued non-payment will result in the subscription being canceled.
Plans require 30 days' written notice to cancel.
Most kitchens switch bookkeepers mid-year without missing a single filing deadline. Here's the four-step path.
We pull your bank, credit card, and loan documents — plus POS reports, prior filings, and any other documents needed to get an accurate picture of your finances — to see exactly where things stand before touching anything.
Historical transactions get categorized correctly and your chart of accounts is rebuilt around food cost, labor, and occupancy — the numbers that actually drive decisions.
Your POS, payroll provider, and major vendors are linked to feed data in automatically, cutting down manual entry going forward.
Books close by the 20th of each month, with a P&L and a short call to walk through what changed.
A generalist bookkeeper can keep a ledger. A Florida restaurant specialist knows which lines actually move.
Discretionary sales surtax rates vary by county, and getting them wrong is one of the most common causes of a Florida sales tax notice.
Snowbird season, hurricane season, and summer slowdowns hit revenue on a schedule most industries never see — your cash plan should match it.
Florida's tipped minimum wage rises on a set schedule; payroll needs to be recalculated on time, not caught after a pay run.
With no state income tax, Florida leans harder on sales tax enforcement — restaurants are a frequent audit target.
No — we exclusively serve Florida-based restaurants, bars, and hospitality businesses. Staying Florida-only is what lets us keep current on county surtax rates, DOR filing requirements, and the state's tipped minimum wage schedule, rather than spreading that expertise thin across other states.
We integrate with the major restaurant POS platforms and pull daily sales, tender types, and tip data directly, so nothing gets keyed in twice.
Yes — most clients switch mid-year. We reconstruct the current-year books during onboarding so there's no gap in your records or filings.
The Starter, Growth, and Professional plans above cover most single-location restaurants. Multi-unit groups or unusual setups get a fixed monthly quote after the free books review — never an hourly estimate.
It covers your current-year return, filed from the clean monthly books we've kept — not prior-year or back-filed returns. Included tax prep also requires a full 12 months of active plan history; accounts that don't meet that are billed our standalone tax prep rate. Prior-year returns and catch-up filings are quoted separately, based on the condition of those books.
Yes — our new restaurant setup service builds your chart of accounts and POS integration before you open, so your reporting is clean from the first day of sales.
Returns are prepared by a licensed Enrolled Agent or CPA on our team, not a general bookkeeper. Our service covers tax preparation and filing only — we don't represent clients in existing or future audits or disputes with the IRS or Florida DOR.
Plans require 30 days' written notice to cancel. This gives us time to hand off your records cleanly and avoids canceling mid-close. If a payment is missed, software access is suspended immediately, and continued non-payment will result in the subscription being canceled.
Professional plan clients get a direct phone/text line to their bookkeeper instead of a general support inbox, with a same-business-day response. You also get first priority for review-call scheduling, which matters most during tax season when everyone wants time on the calendar.
Send us a recent P&L or POS report and we'll walk you through where things stand — no obligation, and no jargon.