Common Challenges We Solve
Reconciling POS system sales against bank deposits and delivery-platform payouts, which rarely land in your account for the same amount or on the same day as the sale itself. Tracking food and beverage cost against revenue to understand true margins by dish or category, rather than working from GP percentages that hide real cost drift. Managing multiple delivery-platform commission structures and their VAT treatment, which differs from your direct dine-in sales.
VAT & Tax Considerations for Restaurants
Standard-rated food and beverage sales, delivery-platform commission VAT treatment, and daily cash handling controls all need specific attention in a restaurant’s VAT filing. For Corporate Tax, restaurant margins are often thin, so accurate cost tracking directly affects your taxable income calculation in a way that matters more than in higher-margin businesses.
Our Services for Restaurants
Who We Work With
Independent restaurants, multi-outlet F&B groups, cloud kitchens operating purely on delivery platforms, and cafés and quick-service concepts across the UAE.
Getting Started
Share which POS system and delivery platforms you use, and we will scope a bookkeeping and compliance process built around how your restaurant actually operates.
Multi-Outlet and Franchise Restaurant Groups
Get Expert Help for Your Business
Talk to an FTA-approved tax consultant today. Free consultation, no obligation — we’ll tell you exactly what your business needs.
Corporate Tax for Restaurants
estaurant margins are typically thin, and accurate cost tracking directly shapes your Corporate Tax position. We help ensure your cost of goods sold calculation properly reflects food and beverage costs, wastage, and staff costs, so your taxable income figure is neither overstated nor understated.
Staff Tips and Service Charge Accounting
Restaurants collecting service charges or distributing tips need clear, consistent treatment of these amounts, since they sit differently from regular revenue and payroll depending on how they’re structured. We help set up a proper process so tips and service charges are handled correctly and transparently.
Supplier and Vendor Payment Management
Restaurants typically manage a large number of food and beverage suppliers on different payment terms, and staying on top of this without a clear system risks late payments or missed early-payment discounts. We help build a vendor payment process that fits your supplier relationships.
Managing Cash Handling Controls
Menu Pricing and VAT-Inclusive Display
UAE menu prices are typically displayed VAT-inclusive, and any pricing change needs to correctly recalculate the underlying VAT-exclusive value for reporting purposes. We help ensure this recalculation happens correctly whenever menu prices change.
Central Kitchen and Commissary Accounting
Restaurant groups operating a central kitchen or commissary supplying multiple outlets need internal transfer pricing between the commissary and each outlet tracked correctly, so individual outlet profitability isn’t distorted by how internal transfers are recorded. We help set up a fair, consistent internal transfer approach.
We also help identify where commissary economies of scale are genuinely reducing per-outlet cost, versus where inefficiencies in the central kitchen model are quietly increasing it.
Wastage and Portion Control Cost Tracking
Frequently Asked Questions
We reconcile gross order value, platform commission and net payout separately, applying correct VAT treatment to each component rather than working only from the net figure deposited to your account.
Yes — we work with all major UAE restaurant POS systems and build our reconciliation process around whatever system you already use.
Yes — we can track cost of goods sold against revenue by category, giving you visibility into real margins rather than relying on estimated gross profit percentages.
Yes — we consolidate multi-outlet restaurant groups into a single group view while still tracking performance at the individual outlet level.
Yes — our Sales Audit service independently verifies reported turnover for mall landlords or other parties requiring it under a percentage-rent lease.