Accountants for restaurants

At Rouse it is about more than just compliance and telling you the numbers. Our award-winning, west of London based team can offer advice on vital areas of your business, including pricing strategies, maintaining margins, structuring your business, tax planning and optimising cash flow to improve the running and profitability of your restaurant.

With a growing client base of restaurants including new food concept restaurants, small London restaurant chains and gastro pubs we can call upon a breadth of experience to support you.

We help our clients go places

If you need advice from someone who knows the business we are well positioned to support you. As members of UK Hospitality, the UK’s leading hospitality trade association, we are committed to the industry and high standards of client service.

For our clients it means we are able to share best practice and relevant updates to help them run their businesses more profitably.

What our clients say

Villa Bianca Restaurants

Rouse was very supportive over the lockdown, they were always available to talk to and offered various options to help us through the crisis, especially on trying to decipher the government schemes,

Rosa’s Thai Cafe

We are excited to work with such an established team that has a strong track record in the hospitality industry. We believe this partnership is a crucial stepping stone to help us achieve our expansion plans and continuous growth. See more >>

Papa Johns

Rouse delivered tax training for all of our franchisees. From our perspective it hit all of the right points and was easy to follow and understand. The franchisee’s will have taken a lot away to digest. Thank you.

Accountancy services for restaurants

Whether a one-off assignment or ongoing work, we will build a tailored package of the services that you require. Please see our range of services below.

Accountancy, audit and tax services

We can provide the full suite of essential compliance services to help you stay compliant, efficient and in control.

ePOS and cloud-based accounting solutions

We can provide advice and recommend accounting software that will allow you to integrate your point of sale and accounting systems. This in turn will enable you to better monitor and control the performance of your restaurant/s.

Bookkeeping and full outsourcing of your accounting function

We can take away this administrative burden away from you, working on your existing accounting system, or helping you to implement a new system.

Business and tax advice

Backed by our experience with other businesses like yours, we can offer advice on areas such as profit margins, optimising cash flow and tax planning opportunities such as claiming capital allowances for fit outs.

Employment tax

Helping you to retain and reward key staff as well as creating tax efficient staff remuneration structures. We can also advise in key areas, such as tronc schemes for tips and gratuities.

VAT

From VAT on food items to claiming VAT exemptions, we can provide essential advice on various VAT compliance areas across the sector.

Business support

Often key for single-site operators; we can provide outsourced payroll and accounting solutions to allow you to focus on managing and developing your business.

Personal tax

From completing necessary tax forms to inheritance tax planning and advising on tax planning opportunities, we offer a range of services for restaurant owners and company directors.

Corporate finance

From support with raising growth finance to assisting you with buying or selling restauarant locations.

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