Restaurant Accounting Services
Restaurant Payroll & Tax Services
Tip-compliant payroll, accurate sales-tax filing and painless year-end — handled by people who understand restaurant labor.
Restaurant payroll and tax services cover paying staff correctly — including tips, tip credits and overtime — plus filing sales tax and preparing clean year-end books for your CPA. FORCS handles the restaurant-specific payroll and tax complexity that trips up general providers.
What's included
Payroll processing
Accurate, on-time payroll across hourly, salaried and tipped staff, integrated with your POS and scheduling.
Tips & tip-credit management
Tip reporting, tip-credit calculations and allocated tips handled correctly to keep you compliant.
Labor & benefits reporting
Labor cost broken out by location and role so you can manage your second-biggest expense.
Sales tax & filings
Sales tax and applicable local filings prepared and filed on schedule so you avoid penalties.
Payroll tax compliance
Federal, state and local payroll taxes calculated, withheld and remitted correctly.
Year-end tax prep for your CPA
Clean, organized year-end financials handed off so your CPA can focus on strategy.
How it works
- 01
Set up & integrate
We connect payroll to your POS and scheduling and configure tip and overtime rules for your states.
- 02
Run & reconcile
We process each payroll and reconcile wages, taxes and tips into your books automatically.
- 03
File & report
We file payroll and sales taxes on time and deliver labor reporting you can act on.
Restaurant payroll is not like other payroll
Tips, tip credits, overtime on tipped wages, allocated tips, split shifts, multiple minimum wages across states, and high turnover — restaurant payroll is a compliance minefield that generic payroll providers routinely get wrong. Mistakes here are expensive: penalties, back-wage claims and unhappy staff.
FORCS handles restaurant payroll the right way, integrated with your POS and scheduling so hours, sales and tips line up — and reconciled straight into your books.
Tip compliance, done correctly
We manage tip reporting, tip-credit calculations, overtime on tipped wages and allocated tips so you stay on the right side of federal and state rules. For multi-unit and multi-state operators, we configure the correct wage and tip rules for each location — because the rules in New York City are not the rules in Austin or Las Vegas.
Sales tax and local filings
We prepare and file sales tax reconciled to your POS sales, plus applicable local requirements, on a reliable schedule — so you avoid the penalties that come from late or inaccurate filings.
Painless year-end
Because we keep clean GAAP-compliant books all year, year-end is a hand-off, not a scramble. Your CPA gets tidy financials and can focus on tax strategy instead of fixing your ledger.
Who this is for
Restaurants with tipped employees, multi-state operators juggling different labor laws, and owners who want payroll and sales tax handled without becoming a compliance expert.
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Payroll & Tax — frequently asked questions
Do you handle tips and tip credits correctly?
Yes. Tipped payroll is where most general payroll providers stumble. We manage tip reporting, tip-credit calculations, overtime on tipped wages and allocated tips so you stay compliant with federal and state rules.
Can you handle payroll in multiple states?
Yes. We serve restaurants in all 50 states and configure the correct minimum wage, tip-credit and overtime rules for each location — important for operators with restaurants in different states or cities.
Do you file my restaurant's sales tax?
We prepare and file sales tax (and applicable local taxes such as New York City requirements) on schedule, reconciled to your POS sales so filings are accurate and penalty-free.
Do you replace my CPA for taxes?
We prepare clean, GAAP-compliant year-end books and work alongside your CPA, who handles the income tax return and strategy. If you don't have a CPA, we can coordinate one.
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