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Accountants for coffee shops, restaurants and retail

Keep more of every pound you take. We show you which items make you money, where your wages and waste are going, and which costs you can stop worrying about.

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23 Google reviews

Does any of this sound like you?

  • “My accounts say I made a profit, but I’ve no idea which of my products actually make me money.”
  • “My costs keep creeping up and I don’t know which ones I can do anything about.”
  • “I’m throwing food away and I’ve no idea what it’s costing me.”
  • “I’m still working out my sales from bank statements.”
  • “My accountant only talks to me about tax once a year.”

If so, you don’t need more bookkeeping. You need someone who has stood where you’re standing.

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What changes when we work together

You know what makes you money

Item-by-item margins, so you know what to push, reprice or drop.

You know which costs you can change

Wages, waste and energy get sorted from the fixed costs you can stop worrying about.

Your sales are just there

They flow into Xero, so you stop working them out from bank statements.

Which one are you?

Coffee shops and cafés

You’re pulling shots at 7am and want to know which drinks, pastries and food pay for themselves.

Restaurants

You’ve a menu, a kitchen and a rota, and wages and food cost are squeezing your margin.

Retail

You’ve shelves of stock, and you want to know which lines sell and which sit.

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Most accountants have never run a shop. Vish has run two busy ones.

Before qualifying as an accountant, Vish ran a drive-thru with 125 staff and 12 managers for a national fast-food chain in London. Then he ran two busy shops for a national coffee chain for two and a half years. He was up at 2am and on shift by 4am for most of his career.

So he looks at what most accountants never do: wages against sales hour by hour, waste and yield, energy use, and what holiday pay and sick pay really cost for hourly staff.

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For example: cutting labour and food cost in a busy coffee shop

22% to 20%Labour, as a share of sales
30% to 29.5%Food cost, as a share of sales

The costly way

Four people open every day and spend the time on set-up. Invoices get paid for items that never arrived, because nobody chases the credit note.

The specialist way

Two open, which is all health and safety needs. The extra staff move to the 07:00 to 13:30 peak, with a closing team for cleaning and shut-down. Extra hands cover deliveries and one person signs them off. Credit notes get chased.

That was one shop. Every shop is different. We’ll show you what applies to yours on the call.

We get it. You’re up before everyone else, on your feet all day, and the numbers get done last.

Leave them to us so you can get on with the shop. You’ll deal with Vish and his wife Johana directly, not a junior. We get in touch when you’re off-peak, never in the lunch rush.

What it looks like in practice

Club Triangle (Leicester) Ltd and Vik’s Rasoi Ltd

A Leicester club and an online Indian takeaway.

Before

His previous accountants gave him one line for sales and one for cost of goods sold. He didn’t know if he was selling the right items at the right price, and he only heard from a senior accountant about tax at year end.

What we did

We broke his sales down into food and drink and gave him management accounts by day 15 each month. Over the World Cup his drinks sales rose 50% while food fell 30%, for example. So he ordered less food, which cut his waste, and told his suppliers he’d need an extra drinks delivery.

Now

Margin reviews, labour control analysis and cash flow forecasts every month. He does more of it himself now, using the tools we built for him.

Every business is different. We’ll show you what applies to yours on the call.

“They managed 4, now 3 of my LTd’s. They work seamlessly between them, and very reasonably priced too.”

Ferhat Say, owner, Corby Meal Solutions Limited
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How it works

  1. Book a call

    Thirty minutes. Tell us about your shop.

  2. We look at your numbers

    We show you which items, costs and hours are making or losing you money.

  3. Monthly reporting in Xero

    Your sales, costs and margins in one place every month, with someone to ask when they look odd.

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Not ready to talk? Start with the guide.

Which of your items actually make you money? A free 6-page guide and Excel calculator. Work out the margin on each item in about an hour, and see which to push, reprice or drop.

We’ll use your details to send you the guide. We won’t share them.

Find out where your margin is going.

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Or call 0116 373 0228