Accounting software for independent restaurants

Real financial visibility, sized for one restaurant.

You're running a restaurant and a business at the same time.

At one location there's no controller and no back office. Often times the same person orders the food, codes the invoice, and needs the numbers for the meeting on Monday. DishBooks is built so those aren't three different jobs in three different places.

No enterprise contract. No paying for portfolio-level tools you don't need yet.

DishBooks scales down to a single restaurant as naturally as it scales up to ten. You get the same prime cost and COGS visibility a multi-location group relies on, without a system priced and packaged around a portfolio you don't have.

Connect your accounts and vendors, and start seeing your numbers — not a months-long implementation.

Heavier restaurant systems often require dedicated setup time and an administrator to maintain them. DishBooks is built to get an independent restaurant up and running without that overhead, so you're looking at real numbers, not managing a project.

Know your numbers well enough to act on them — not just report them at tax time.

Prime cost and COGS broken down by category (protein, dairy, produce, beverage) show exactly where margin pressure is coming from. And when a report alone isn't enough, ask Dex, your financial assistant, a plain-language question instead of digging through the numbers yourself.

Know what it actually takes to open a second location.

Knowing your prime cost, margin, and cash position is how you find out whether a second restaurant is realistic, and what has to improve first. When the answer is yes, multi-location reporting is already here. You won't be switching systems to grow.

What an independent operator gets on day one

Prime cost broken down by food, beverage, and labor — not one blended percentage.
Vendor invoices coded automatically, so cost data lands without you keying it in.
A dashboard that reflects your books as of your last sync, not a month-end report.
Dex, your AI financial assistant, for the questions a report doesn't answer.

Frequently asked questions

Does DishBooks work with my POS?
What happens if I open a second location?
How long does it take to get set up?
Do I need to hire a bookkeeper or controller to use DishBooks?
Is DishBooks a good fit for a single, independent restaurant?