Vol. I · The Broadsheet Edition Bookkeeping for restaurants & food businesses Est. — 9 Years Serving Kitchens
Thyme & Margin
Thyme well spent. Margins well earned.

Bookkeeping for restaurants & food businesses.

You didn’t open a restaurant to spend your nights doing the books.

Thyme & Margin keeps your bookkeeping clean, your sales tax on time, and your margins crystal clear — so your evenings, your weekends, and your peace of mind go back to being yours.

A restaurant owner stepping out of the kitchen at golden hour
ABOVE: The owner heads home while dinner service winds down — warm, natural documentary photography of the life you get back.
From the Dining Room

Restaurant owners who got their evenings back.

Real client quote coming soon.
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Real client quote coming soon.
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Real client quote coming soon.
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The Late-Night Ledger

Sound familiar?

You got into this to feed people and build something you love — not to drown in spreadsheets after close.

The Process

Getting your books off your plate is simple.

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Step One — Book a free call

Tell us where things stand.

Tell us about your restaurant, your POS, and where things stand. No jargon, no judgment.

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Step Two — We clean up and set up

We build a system that fits.

We get your books current, connect your QuickBooks and POS, and build a system that fits how a restaurant actually runs.

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Step Three — You get your time back

Clean books land in your inbox.

Every month, clean books and clear numbers land in your inbox. You get back to the kitchen — and back to your life.

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The Menu

Bookkeeping made for the way restaurants actually run.

Tier One

Mise en Place

  • Monthly bookkeeping
  • Bank & card reconciliation
  • Monthly P&L and balance sheet
Tier Two

Dinner Service

Everything in Mise en Place, plus…

  • POS / sales reconciliation
  • Sales tax filing
  • Accounts payable
  • A monthly review call
Tier Three

Full Plate

Everything in Dinner Service, plus…

  • Payroll coordination
  • Cash-flow reporting
  • Restaurant KPI dashboard (prime cost, food cost %, labor %)
Book a free callNot sure which fits? We’ll help you choose.
The Editorial

We speak restaurant.

Prime cost. Food and labor percentages. Tip liabilities. Third-party delivery deposits. Multi-location reconciliations. Sales tax in every jurisdiction you operate. This is the stuff a general bookkeeper guesses at — and the stuff we do every day.

Meet the Founder

I’ve seen this business from every side of the kitchen door.

I started out in business management — budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis — but my restaurant roots run deeper than spreadsheets. In my early 20s, I owned a small café in southern Utah. Since then I’ve managed restaurants and built a wine-and-liquor fulfillment program serving more than 20 of them. And these days I’m married to a chef who became director of operations for several restaurants, with a catering business on the side — so I also know exactly what it’s like to be the family waiting at home while the books pile up after close.

That’s the whole reason Thyme & Margin exists. I understand your numbers like a financial analyst, your kitchen like an operator, and your late nights like someone who’s lived them. My team and I are QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor certified, and our job is simple: keep your books clean and your margins clear, so you get your evenings — and your people — back.

— [Founder name — to be added]

The founder of Thyme & Margin, outdoors in warm natural light
The founder of Thyme & Margin.
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The Restaurant Owner’s Month-End Checklist

The exact steps we run every month to close a restaurant’s books cleanly — so nothing slips through before you hand it to your CPA.

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Questions & Answers

The fine print, in plain English.

Yes — we work in QuickBooks Online and connect it to your POS and bank feeds so everything flows in one place.

Not at all. Catch-up and clean-up is one of the most common ways we start.

We handle your bookkeeping and sales tax filing and hand your CPA clean, year-end-ready books.

It depends on your sales volume, number of storefronts, and needs. Book a free call and we’ll give you an honest quote.

Book a free call — we’ll talk through where you are and map a plan.

Ready to get the books off your plate?

Let’s reclaim your thyme — and grow your margin.

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Get your evenings back. Book a free call