Industries · Cafes & Restaurants
Accounting support built for cafes & restaurants.
Hospitality runs on thin margins, daily takings and weekend penalty rates. SML keeps the books, payroll and BAS matched to how a venue actually trades.
Where the money leaks
The pressure points we see in cafes & restaurants.
- Daily takings that never quite match the POS or the bank deposit.
- Payroll with penalty rates, weekend loadings and casual conversion rules — one wrong setting affects every pay run.
- A stack of supplier invoices and merchant/delivery platform fees quietly eating the margin.
- GST coding that mixes GST-free and taxable food items — a classic source of BAS errors.
- Cash flow that swings week to week while rent and wages stay fixed.
What SML handles
Done together, with the records behind it.
POS & daily sales reconciliation
Square, Lightspeed and other tills matched to bank deposits, so takings are provable.
Hospitality payroll & STP
Penalty rates, loadings, super and Single Touch Payroll set up and reviewed properly.
Supplier bills workflow
Invoices captured digitally and coded consistently — no more shoebox at BAS time.
GST & BAS for food businesses
GST-free versus taxable coding reviewed, BAS prepared with records behind every figure.
Cash flow you can read
Weekly rhythm reports: what came in, what's due out, what's left to trade with.
Free self-check · 3 minutes
Wondering where your venue leaks money — takings, wages, or supplier costs?
Take the free Business Money Health Check — ten quick questions, an instant score out of 100, and your weakest area pinpointed. Or go deeper with our Second Opinion Review: if we can't identify $500 of savings or cost-risks in writing, it's free.
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Guides worth reading before we talk.
BAS Preparation Checklist
Read guideSuperannuation Guarantee for Employers
Read guidePAYG Withholding for Employers
Read guideCash Flow Management Basics
Read guideNext step
Talk to someone who knows your industry's numbers.
Book a conversation with SML and bring the issue you want fixed first — we'll shape the bookkeeping, BAS, payroll and tax around how your business actually runs.
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