Your POS, your bank, and DoorDash all show different numbers. We fix that.
You're running a kitchen. Not chasing down why Tuesday's sales don't match Tuesday's deposit. We tie your debit machine reports, delivery app payouts, and tip jars back to one clean set of books. And we've been doing it for restaurant owners — chains, independents, ghost kitchens — for over 25 years.
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These come up in almost every restaurant we work with — dine-in, takeaway, ghost kitchen. We pair monthly bookkeeping with HST filing and payroll so your kitchen, your books, and the CRA all land on the same number.
Sales don't match deposits. Ever.
DoorDash pays you net. Cash tips disappear into the drawer. Debit settlements land two days late. By month-end, you're staring at three different numbers and none of them agree.
We pull your income from the MSP/debit machine reports — not bank deposits. Cash, debit, credit, and delivery-app revenue each get their own line. So your books actually match what happened.
HST on food? It's a mess.
Prepared meals charge 13%. Raw ingredients are zero-rated. Client meals are only half-deductible with half the ITC. One wrong category across 4,000 transactions, and your HST return is off by thousands.
We tag the right HST rate to every line — 13% on prepared food, zero-rated on ingredients, 50% ITC on client entertainment. Your purchase-to-sales ratio stays in the 47-48% range CRA expects.
DoorDash says $11K. Your bank says $8K.
Platform fees ate the $3,000 difference. But CRA got the gross number directly from DoorDash. Now they're asking why your return is short.
We book DoorDash, Uber Eats, and SkipTheDishes at the gross amount from their statements. Platform commissions go on a separate expense line. Your income matches what CRA already has. No surprise letters.
Groceries end up under Meals. Equipment gets expensed.
That supermarket run for ingredients? It's sitting under "Meals." The $1,400 deep fryer got fully expensed instead of capitalized. CRA reclassifies it during an audit and you owe back tax.
We route supermarket purchases to COGS and book equipment over $1,000 as a capital asset with the right CCA class. Repair & Maintenance stays separate from Waste Management. Clean categories, audit-ready.
We won't be learning restaurant accounting on your file
Here's what we already track for every restaurant client
Income from MSP/debit machine reports — not bank deposits. The 47-48% HST purchase-to-sales ratio CRA watches for restaurants. COGS for supermarket and wholesale ingredients. The $1,000 threshold where kitchen equipment gets capitalized instead of expensed.
Waste Management vs. Repair & Maintenance (plumbers, pest control, fire extinguisher — they're different lines). Meals & Entertainment HST variants, including the 50% ITC on client entertainment. GST/HST installment handling. Tip classification and source deductions through restaurant payroll. And full ghost-kitchen bookkeeping for DoorDash-only concepts.
We've documented all of this across a 10-location chain and dozens of independents. It's not theory. It's how we work.
What restaurant owners say
“Y&A found $14,000 in DoorDash income we'd been under-reporting from year one. They rebuilt our chart of accounts for the ghost kitchen and got our HST ratio back in range that same quarter.”
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