Restaurant Accounting & Financial Consulting for Independent Restaurants and Restaurant Groups Nationwide
Strictly Restaurants helps restaurant owners across the United States gain financial clarity through specialized accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, CFO services, controller support, and operational consulting designed exclusively for the hospitality industry.
Your Restaurant Deserves More Than a Typical Accountant
Restaurant owners face unique financial challenges every day. That's why President and CEO Jeff Lavelle works directly with every client, delivering restaurant specific accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, CFO services, and financial consulting tailored to your business.
Restaurant Controller Services
Strengthen your restaurant's financial operations with accurate reporting, account reconciliation, budgeting support, and internal financial oversight. Our controller services provide the clarity and confidence restaurant owners need to make informed business decisions.
Restaurant Cash Flow Management
Improve financial visibility with restaurant cash flow forecasting, vendor payment planning, expense monitoring, and reporting designed to help operators protect profitability and make confident decisions.
Restaurant Payroll Services
Keep restaurant payroll accurate, compliant, and on time with payroll solutions designed specifically for restaurants and hospitality businesses. We help simplify payroll processing, employee compensation, tax reporting, and labor oversight so operators can reduce errors, save management time, and stay focused on running the restaurant.
Restaurant Consulting Services
Restaurant consulting designed to improve profitability, streamline operations, strengthen financial performance, and support growth for independent restaurants, hospitality groups, and multi unit operators across the United States.
Restaurant Financial Expertise Built Exclusively for Restaurants
For more than 13 years, Jeff Lavelle has helped independent restaurants, hospitality groups, and multi unit operators across the United States improve profitability through restaurant specific accounting, payroll, controller services, CFO support, and financial consulting.
Strictly Restaurants is not a traditional accounting firm. We work exclusively with restaurants, giving owners access to financial expertise built around the challenges of the hospitality industry. From food and labor costs to payroll, cash flow, inventory, and profitability, every recommendation is tailored specifically to restaurant operations.
Jeff works directly with every client, providing practical financial guidance backed by years of restaurant industry experience. Rather than simply preparing reports, he helps restaurant owners understand their numbers, identify opportunities for improvement, control operating costs, and make confident business decisions that support long term growth.
Whether you're opening your first restaurant, operating multiple locations, or looking for a trusted financial partner to manage your back office, Strictly Restaurants provides the accounting expertise, financial insight, and ongoing support restaurants need to operate more efficiently and grow with confidence.

Restaurant Accounting Built
Exclusively for Restaurants
Helping independent restaurants, hospitality groups, and multi location operators across the United States simplify accounting, payroll, cash flow, controller services, CFO support, and financial reporting

Restaurant Financial Support That Helps You Make Better Business Decisions
Restaurant owners make hundreds of decisions every week that affect profitability, labor costs, inventory, payroll, and cash flow. Having accurate financial information allows you to make those decisions with confidence instead of relying on guesswork. Strictly Restaurants provides restaurant specific accounting services that help operators understand their numbers, improve profitability, and build stronger businesses.
Unlike general accounting firms, we work exclusively with restaurants. Every service is designed around the financial challenges restaurant owners face every day, from controlling food and labor costs to managing payroll, cash flow, monthly reporting, tax preparation, controller oversight, and long term financial planning. Whether you operate one restaurant or multiple locations, our goal is to provide clear financial reporting that supports better business decisions.
Here's what you can expect when you work with a restaurant-focused experienced team:
• Restaurant bookkeeping and monthly financial reporting
• Restaurant payroll processing and tax compliance
• Cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning
• Controller services and financial oversight
• Fractional CFO strategy and financial planning
• Budgeting, forecasting, and profitability analysis
• Sales tax reporting and regulatory compliance
• Restaurant consulting for growth and operational improvement
When you partner with Strictly Restaurants, you gain more than an accounting firm. You gain a restaurant financial partner that helps you improve profitability, reduce financial stress, and make confident decisions backed by accurate reporting and industry expertise.
Restaurant Financial Experts Focused
Exclusively on Restaurants
For more than 13 years, Strictly Restaurants has helped independent restaurants, hospitality groups, and multi location operators improve financial clarity, increase profitability, and simplify back office operations. Because restaurants are all we do, we understand the unique financial challenges that come with running a successful operation.
Whether you need bookkeeping, payroll, controller services, cash flow management, CFO support, or restaurant consulting, you'll work with experienced professionals who understand your industry and provide practical guidance tailored to your business.
From monthly financial reporting to long term strategic planning, our goal is simple: give restaurant owners the financial insight they need to make confident decisions and focus on delivering exceptional guest experiences.

Helping Emmy Squared Grow From One
Restaurant to 14 Locations
Strictly Restaurants supported Emmy Squared during a period of remarkable growth, providing restaurant accounting, financial reporting, controller services, and back office support as the concept expanded from a single Brooklyn location into a nationally recognized restaurant brand.
Over nearly four and a half years, including the challenges of the pandemic, our team helped build the financial structure and reporting systems that supported sustainable growth while allowing leadership to focus on delivering an exceptional guest experience and expanding into new markets.
"Strictly Restaurants has a strong understanding of what it takes to develop and scale restaurant concepts, particularly for operators moving from early stages into multi unit growth."Howard Greenstone
Founder, Red Pebbles Hospitality
Former CEO, Emmy Squared Pizza
Whether you're operating a single restaurant or planning to grow into multiple locations, Strictly Restaurants delivers the restaurant accounting expertise, financial reporting, and strategic guidance needed to help your business grow with confidence.

