Bookkeeping for restaurants - Portland, Maine

We make the back‑of‑house add up.

Monthly bookkeeping, prime cost reporting, tip pooling compliance and payroll that agrees with what actually happened on the floor. You cook the food; we keep the ledger.

Monthly packages - Start with a POS export

Overhead view of a diner counter with a coffee cup, folded napkin and pencil

Monthly packages

Pick a package. Run the check.

Three ways to keep the books. All monthly, all built off the accounts and POS you already use. Move up a tier whenever the menu changes.

Check No. 01 / 02 / 03
Lettered above and below the fold

Guest checkNo. 01

Short Order

Books, closed monthly

  • Monthly bookkeeping
  • Payroll integration
  • Quarterly tax prep
Order Short Order
Guest checkNo. 02

The Regular

Books plus cost control

  • Monthly bookkeeping
  • Prime cost reporting
  • Menu costing
  • Payroll integration
  • Quarterly tax prep
Order The Regular
Guest checkNo. 03

The Full Spread

Everything we run

  • Monthly bookkeeping
  • Prime cost reporting
  • Tip pooling compliance
  • Menu costing
  • Payroll integration
  • Quarterly tax prep
Order The Full Spread

Not sure which one? Start with the Short Order and move up when the menu changes. Every package is monthly and runs off the accounts you already use.

Take an order

Tell us which package and send a recent POS export. We'll confirm a start date and what we need from you.

Start my order

Portland, Maine - Kitchens around it

The placemat

Order up: everything on the menu.

Six services, one kitchen. Start with whichever one is keeping you up at night and we'll build the rest around your POS and your payroll.

Tip pooling compliance

The pool has to add up to the hour.

Tip pooling is where restaurant books get loud. Cash and card tips, tipped and untipped hours, a pool that shifts when somebody covers a shift - it all has to reconcile before payroll runs.

  1. 01

    We map the pool

    Who's in it, how hours are counted, and where tips land in your POS.

  2. 02

    We reconcile the tips

    Card tips, cash tips and pooled hours sorted to the shift that earned them.

  3. 03

    We hand payroll a clean file

    Payroll integration takes it from there, and the reporting matches your books.

Ledger & Ladle
Portland, ME - Tip Pool
POOLED HOURSby shift
CARD TIPSallocated
CASH TIPSentered
SHIFT SWAPSnoted
PAYOUTpayroll ready
Counter checked01
Server at a counter terminal during service, tipping out at the end of a shift

Mid-service at the counter: the tips and the hours, before they ever hit payroll.

Take an order

Ready when you are.

Tell us which package you want and send a recent POS export. We'll confirm a start date and what we need from your books. Portland, Maine and the kitchens around it.

Diner booth with a pine edge and a set table at the end of the day

Your order

Pick a package, send a POS export, and we'll open the books for the month.

Ledger & Ladle - Portland, ME

Last table of the night, books balanced.