Specifically written for the restaurant industry! This jargon free and step-by-step guide to the most popular accounting software program will guide you through the process of setting up and running your restaurant or food service operation. Written by a 25-year veteran of the restaurant business, this book includes customized, and ready to use company files with a preconfigured chart of accounts that follows industry standards.

The book begins with a restaurant accounting primer for accounting novices. After restoring one of the included company files the book guides the new restaurant operator through the process of recording all the beginning balances. Detailed chapters include recording daily sales and deposits from POS register reports, dealing with outside payroll services, making end of month adjustments to food and beverage inventory, and many other restaurant specific tasks. A detailed Appendix includes 2001 National Restaurant Association Operating Ratios to help you assess your restaurants performance!