Food cost you can trust. Tips, comps, and categories that finally match the floor. QuickBooks, QuickBooks, fixed fee. Free assessment.
Austin scales faster than its back office — revenue arrives before the systems do, and the books are usually the last thing to catch up. For restaurants and food businesses across Travis County — from downtown and South Congress to the Domain and East Austin — that shows up as toast/square deposits net out tips, fees, and third-party delivery — so sales never reconcile and vendor invoices pile up unentered; food cost percentage is a guess, not a number
Steven Palmieri works remotely with Austin owners in a market defined by a technology-and-startup boom layered over hospitality and creative small business. We reconcile POS-to-bank daily sales, rebuild COGS from vendor statements, and untangle tips so payroll stops being scary. You get a documented before/after trail your CPA can verify — no offshore rush job, no judgment about how far behind the books have slipped.
You're not bad at business. The books just stopped telling the truth about the line and the office.
When inventory, invoices, and sales never meet in the books, margin is folklore — not a number you can manage.
Servers, delivery apps, voids, and house comps land in the wrong buckets — payroll and tax both feel it.
You're still reconciling last month while this week's specials already changed the story.
Two minutes. No document dump. Just the truth about how behind it feels.
We rebuild categories around food, labor, and venues — not a generic chart of accounts.
Backlog cleared. Accounts reconciled. A before/after report you — and your CPA — can act on.
Restaurant cleanup that respects the floor: food, labor, tips, and truth in the P&L.
Every account reconciled and every anomaly documented before we change a thing.
The backlog cleared with restaurant-correct categories — not a generic chart of accounts.
A before/after summary and a simple monthly rhythm so it stays clean after we leave.
If our assessment can’t show you exactly what’s wrong and what it costs to fix, the assessment costs you nothing — no obligation either way.
“Finally handed my CPA a clean QuickBooks file instead of a shoebox.”
“Food cost went from a feeling to a weekly number.”
“DoorDash and Uber Eats payouts finally reconcile.”
Illustrative examples of typical client situations — not statements from specific named clients.
Tell us a little about the business — we reply within one business day.
Yes — we serve Austin and the wider Travis County area entirely remotely, working from your QuickBooks exports and bank feeds. No office visit required.
Most cleanups finish in 2–4 weeks depending on backlog size and account volume.
Fixed fee, quoted after the free assessment — based on months behind, accounts, and transaction volume. No hourly surprises.
Yes — daily sales journal from the POS, delivery platforms netted correctly, tips as liabilities.
Never. Messy books are a symptom of a busy business. Fixing them is literally what we do all day.