POS-integrated books, prime cost you can see weekly, and per-location reporting — the margin discipline this industry demands.
Since 2006 · 500+ companies served · $360M in client revenue managed annually
A restaurant’s books fail differently. A POS that never quite matches the bank. Tips, comps, voids, and delivery-platform fees distorting revenue. Prime cost — food plus labor — drifting three points and quietly eating the year’s profit.
Generic bookkeeping closes the month three weeks late and tells you what already went wrong. To run a restaurant you need prime cost weekly, per-location truth, and a cash picture that survives a slow February.
Keel has run the books for Southern California businesses since 2006 — including restaurants, breweries, taprooms, and hospitality groups across San Diego County, Orange County, and greater Los Angeles. We know the local landscape, California payroll and compliance, and the operators your business runs alongside.
Headquartered in Oceanside — and because the whole engagement runs through your cloud stack and client portal, we serve companies anywhere in the country just as well.
Books that match the POS, the bank, and reality.
The reports a restaurant actually runs on.
CFO judgment for the decisions that shape the group.
We integrate your POS and payroll directly into the books — so daily sales, tips, and labor land correctly without re-keying.
Toast
Square
Clover
Lightspeed
Gusto
QuickBooks
Black Market Brewing Co.
Clean Blue
Golden Spoon
Quiet Mind Mountain Retreat
Roberto's Taco Shop
Vibe Organic Kitchen
Bagby Beer
Beast & Brews"I work with DOAAR to take care of the books for my restaurant. Dan is professional, knowledgeable and saves me hours of tedious accounting each month. Highly recommended for any fellow small biz owners looking to spend less time accounting."
Josh Leibowitz · Owner, Vibe
Every Keel client works from a live portal — executive summary, standard reporting, controller and CFO views, and workflows, refreshed on your service cadence. The demo shows the full Keel service stack; your portal is tailored to your engagement.
Explore the Demo PortalYes. Daily sales, tips, comps, and fees flow from your POS into the books automatically — reconciled against actual bank deposits.
Yes. Food and labor cost tracking on a weekly rhythm is a core deliverable for our restaurant clients — because a three-point drift caught in week two is fixable, and one caught at month-end is history.
Yes. Per-location P&Ls are standard — so you know which stores earn, which bleed, and what a blended statement was hiding.
Value-based and transparent — built from a published service catalog, not hourly billing. Build your own estimate in about two minutes. No contact info required.
A controller, once locations or volume make the close and cost reporting too complex for a bookkeeper. A CFO, for the bigger calls: new locations, leases, financing, menu economics, and an eventual sale or franchise play.
A 60-minute call about your business, your books, and what a finance department would change. Or price it yourself first.
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