Cafés, restaurants, bars and venues run on thin margins and long hours. We handle the wages, the BAS and the tax so you can run the floor – and we keep an eye on the numbers that decide whether a busy week is actually a profitable one.
Book a Chat Call (07) 5593 6060What we take care of for cafés, restaurants, bars and venues:
Hospitality runs on some of the thinnest margins in business. After wages and the cost of food and beverage, there often isn’t much of each dollar left – so small things move the result in a big way. A venue can be packed every night and still go backwards if the rosters, the pricing and the buying aren’t tight. Most accounting advice is built for businesses that don’t live this close to the line. Ours is built for businesses that do.
Two numbers decide most of it. Your wage cost as a percentage of sales, and your food and beverage cost percentage – together they’re your “prime cost”, and in a healthy venue they sit somewhere around 60-65% of revenue combined. When prime cost creeps to 70% and beyond, the profit quietly disappears, and the owner is usually the last to know because the bank account still looks busy. We track these with you, period by period, so a bad fortnight is something you see early – not something you discover at tax time.
None of this is exotic – it’s just specific. Once the wages, the prime cost and the cash position are watched properly through the year, hospitality stops feeling like a guess and starts feeling like a business you can actually steer.
Payroll set up against the right hospitality award – penalty rates, casual loadings, split shifts and allowances – with Single Touch Payroll and super handled correctly.
POS-connected bookkeeping in Xero or MYOB, the GST-free vs taxable food split done right, and BAS and IAS lodged on time.
Wage-to-sales and food and beverage cost tracking, broken down so you can see where the margin goes and act while it still matters.
Tax planning timed around your trade, the right structure for one venue or several, and sensible fit-out and equipment decisions.
Labour is the biggest controllable cost in any venue, and it’s also the easiest to get wrong. We set your payroll up properly against the award that applies to you, so penalty rates, loadings and allowances are built in rather than guessed at – and we make the wage cost visible every pay run, so you’re managing it in real time instead of finding out at year end.
We connect your point-of-sale to your accounting file so sales, fees and the GST split flow through cleanly, and the books reconcile to the bank without a monthly fight. When the bookkeeping is right all year, the BAS, GST and your annual return stop being a source of stress and become routine.
A simple, regular read on prime cost, wage percentage and cash position is worth more to a venue than a thick report nobody opens. We give you the few numbers that decide the result, explain what they’re telling you, and help you act while there’s still time to change the month.
Cafés and coffee shops. High volume, tight margins and a lot of casual wages. We keep the payroll clean and the prime cost visible so a busy trade actually turns into profit.
Restaurants. More complex menus, more staff and more moving parts. We help with costing, rostering numbers, GST and the tax and structure questions that come with growth.
Bars, pubs and venues. Late trade, security and entertainment costs, and a different GST and licensing picture. We handle the bookkeeping, BAS and payroll so compliance runs quietly in the background.
Caterers, food trucks and franchises. Mobile and event-based trade, or a franchise model with its own reporting – we set the books up to suit how you actually operate.
A free chat about your venue, your numbers and where you want to be.
We look at your payroll, prime cost, GST and books, and tell you what we find – kindly, but honestly.
A clear scope and a fixed fee, agreed up front. No invoice you weren’t expecting.
Wages, BAS and tax handled, with regular check-ins so a slow month is caught early.
Plain-English help for hospitality owners, written by our team.
General information only – not financial or legal advice. Awards, thresholds and tax rules change; confirm current requirements or speak to us before acting on anything you read here.
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