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Accounting solutions for restaurants and food businesses
A 15-lb brisket at $5/lb costs $9.38 per servable pound after trim and shrinkage — cost wood, fuel, and overnight labor into every plate or watch margin burn.
Colorado HB25-1090 lets restaurants keep service charges if every menu, website and phone quote states the amount and who gets it before the guest orders.
IRS and state auditors start with the gap between your POS Z report and your drawer count. Log paid-outs, deposit intact, book the rest to Cash Over and Short.
Donuts cost cents to make, yet profit leaks through 4 a.m. labor, fryer oil, and day-old waste — track each line to hold food cost under 30%.
Florida's minimum wage hits $15.00 ($11.98 tipped) on September 30, 2026. Update payroll rates, tip notices, and posters before the midweek changeover.
SITCA trades POS-verified tip reporting and an annual report for protection from employer FICA liability on unreported tips under Section 3121(q).
Zero-proof spirits cost as much as full-proof at wholesale with no well tier — price by value, cost every build, and bank January's surplus.
Section 170(e)(3) lets any business deduct donated food at cost plus half the markup, capped at twice cost — with a 15% net-income limit, a five-year carryover, and a Good Samaritan liability shield.
A step-by-step end-of-day close for retail and restaurants — X-read, tip adjustments and card batch settlement, Z-report, a blind drawer count, and the three-way match of POS expected against counted cash against bank settlement. Covers over/short thresholds, why overs signal shortchanged customers, posting variances to a cash-over-short account instead of adjusting sales, and the wage-deduction rules that make docking pay for a short drawer risky.
Sushi food cost hides in fish yield loss of 45-60%, making $8/lb wholesale fish cost $16/lb usable. This guide covers yield testing, rice portion control, prepaid omakase deferred revenue, gift card breakage rules, itamae labor economics against the 60% prime cost benchmark, and a weekly bookkeeping routine for sushi operators.
A bundled dinner theater ticket is two sales — a taxable meal and an admission many states exempt from sales tax but hit with a separate admissions or amusement levy. This guide covers the three state models (split the ticket, operator-as-consumer, tax the whole bundle), the complimentary-drink rules that tax comps at your cost, and a chart of accounts that keeps ticket, bar, and deferred revenue auditable.
Under the ADA a service animal is a dog individually trained to perform a disability-related task; emotional support animals do not qualify. Businesses may ask only two questions, cannot demand papers, vests or fees, and may remove a dog only if it is out of control or not housebroken. Covers the staff script, the FDA Food Code kitchen line, why housing (HUD) and airlines (DOT) differ, the 35 state fake-service-animal laws, and how to track compliance costs.
