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Know your real margins
Menu engineering, prime cost tracking, and weekly P&Ls broken down by location, daypart, and category — so you know what's actually making money.
- Food & beverage cost analysis
- Menu profitability scoring
- Labor % by shift
CPAs for Back Bay Restaurants
Run a tighter,
more profitable restaurant.
From Newbury Street to neighborhood favorites, we help Boston restaurant owners take control of their numbers and keep more of what they earn.
120+
Boston restaurants
18%
avg. margin lift
1 day
books closed
01 · The reality
Margins are tight. Costs keep rising.
You're working sixty-plus hours a week and the P&L still doesn't make sense. That's not a you problem — that's a restaurant problem. And it has answers.
01 · Labor
Payroll keeps climbing.
Tipped wage shifts, overtime creep, and turnover are eating into margins shift after shift.
02 · Inventory
Food costs are a moving target.
Prices change weekly. Without real food cost percentages, you're guessing on the menu and bleeding on the line.
03 · Rent
Back Bay rent doesn't blink.
Newbury Street and Boylston aren't getting cheaper. Every percentage point of profit matters.
04 · Cash flow
Busy nights, broke Mondays.
A packed Saturday doesn't mean a healthy bank account on Tuesday. Tax bills, vendor payments, and slow weeks hit hard.
Tuesday morning · Back Bay
02 · The shift
What changes when your numbers work for you.
Restaurants don't fail because owners don't work hard. They struggle when the numbers stay opaque. Here's the trade we make with every client:
- Guessing food cost %→Real margins, by menu item
- Surprise tax bills→Quarterly cash plans you can see
- Reactive bookkeeping→Weekly P&L you actually read
- Hoping next month is better→A growth plan with numbers
03 · Services
Built for the way restaurants actually run.
We're not a generalist firm with a restaurant page. Every service is reframed for kitchen reality — covers, prime cost, comps, and the rhythm of the week.
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Improve cash flow
Weekly cash forecasts, vendor payment scheduling, and tax planning that doesn't blindside you in April. Slow weeks stop being scary.
- 13-week cash forecast
- Sales tax & payroll filings
- Vendor & rent strategy
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Plan for growth or expansion
Whether it's a second location, a build-out, or selling the business — we model the numbers, prep financing, and stand next to you in the room.
- Multi-unit modeling
- SBA & lender packages
- Exit & valuation planning
04 · From the line
Boston operators who stopped guessing.
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We thought we had a sales problem. Turned out we had a prime cost problem. They rebuilt our menu pricing and we picked up nine points of margin in a quarter.
Marco D.
Owner, Italian trattoria · Back Bay
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Closing books used to take two weeks and a lot of swearing. Now it's done by Monday and I actually understand the report.
Priya R.
Co-owner, two-location concept · Boston
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They opened our second spot with us. Lender package, build-out budget, the whole thing. They know restaurants like a line cook knows their station.
James O.
Owner, neighborhood gastropub · South End
Mass Restaurant Assoc.·AICPA Member·Toast / Square / Resy partners
Serving Back Bay · South End · Seaport · Cambridge
05 · The process
Three steps.
No mystery.
The same playbook we run with every restaurant in our book — adapted to your concept, your numbers, your neighborhood.
- 01Week 1–2
Understand
We sit down in your dining room — not a conference room. We pull your books, your POS, your leases, and map exactly where time and money are leaking.
- 02Month 1–3
Optimize
Tighten prime cost, fix the close cadence, restructure tax exposure, and put a real cash forecast in front of you. No fluff, no jargon.
- 03Ongoing
Grow
Monthly reviews, quarterly strategy, and a CPA on call when the lease comes up, the second location calls, or the offer hits the table.
Schedule a consultation
Let's look at the numbers together.
A 30-minute conversation. Bring last month's P&L (or don't). We'll tell you where the margin is hiding and what we'd do first.
Office
Newbury St
Back Bay, Boston
Back Bay, Boston
Hours
Mon–Fri · 8a–6p
Eves by request
Eves by request
Service area
Greater Boston
& Cambridge
& Cambridge