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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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Sound familiar?

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.

The Problem

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.

How We Fix It

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.

The Problem

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.

How We Fix It

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.

The Problem

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.

How We Fix It

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.

The Problem

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.

How We Fix It

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.”

Restaurant Owner
Independent Ghost Kitchen, GTA

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Questions we hear from restaurant owners

How does HST work on restaurant food in Ontario?
Prepared food and drinks you sell charge 13% HST. But the raw ingredients you buy at the supermarket? Those are zero-rated — no HST. So you collect HST on the finished plate but don't pay it on the groceries that went into it. And if you take clients out for a meal, that's only 50% deductible. You can only claim half the HST (6.5%) as an input tax credit.
How do I report DoorDash and Uber Eats income?
Report the gross amount from their statements — not the deposit in your bank. Platform fees (usually 20-30%) get taken out before you see the money, so your bank balance is lower than what you actually earned. Here's the thing: CRA gets the gross number directly from DoorDash. If your return shows less, they'll ask why. Book the gross as revenue and put platform commissions on a separate expense line.
Do I have to report employee tips to CRA?
Yes. But it depends on the type. Controlled tips — the ones added to bills and distributed by you — count as employment income. You withhold CPP, EI, and income tax on those. Direct tips (cash a customer leaves on the table) are still taxable for the employee, but you don't need to withhold. Getting this wrong is one of the most common CRA payroll audit triggers for restaurants.
What bookkeeping mistakes do restaurants make most?
The big ones: using bank deposits as income instead of MSP/debit machine reports. Putting supermarket runs under Meals instead of COGS. Booking cleaning under the wrong category. Missing interest and bank charges month after month. And letting your HST purchase-to-sales ratio drift past 47-48% without asking why.
How do I figure out COGS for my restaurant?
Start with your supermarket and wholesale food purchases — the ingredients you buy to resell as meals. Adjust for opening and closing inventory. Beverages, disposables, and kitchen supplies count too. A healthy restaurant COGS sits around 28-35% of sales. If yours is higher, it's usually waste, theft, or something landing in the wrong category.

Tired of three different numbers for the same Tuesday?
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