Accounting for restaurants in Windsor
Restaurants run on thin margins, daily sales across cash, card, and delivery apps, food and liquor inventory, and a mix of tipped and hourly staff. In Windsor, taxifi handles it online: books current every day, filings on time, and a Canadian accountant reviewing and signing every file.
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Restaurants in Windsor, books handled
Windsor's cross-border, trades, and service businesses need bookkeeping that keeps up and a Canadian accountant standing behind every filing.
For restaurants specifically, taxifi covers the work below as part of one flat monthly price, with Ontario’s HST, WSIB, and Employer Health Tax handled inside the service:
- Daily sales reconciled across POS, card, and delivery apps
- Food and beverage inventory tracked
- Payroll for tipped and hourly staff
- HST returns prepared and filed
What we take off a Windsor restaurant’s plate
Reconciling every payment channel
Cash, card, and delivery-app payouts rarely match your sales on their own. We reconcile Uber Eats, DoorDash, and SkipTheDishes to your POS so nothing is double-counted or missed.
Food and beverage inventory
Inventory and cost of goods are tracked so you can see real margin, not just what's left in the bank.
Tipped and hourly payroll
Tipped and hourly staff are handled with source deductions remitted to CRA on time and T4s ready at year-end.
Why Windsor restaurants choose taxifi
Windsor's economy moves to an automotive and cross-border rhythm — manufacturing and the supply chains around it, major new electric-vehicle-related investment reshaping local demand, and Detroit five minutes away. Border-city business is real business, and it puts a premium on books that are actually current.
Layer onto that what restaurants deal with everywhere — thin margins, daily cash, tip handling, and a payroll roster that never sits still — and the case for taxifi is simple: books kept current daily by AI, filings reviewed and signed by a Canadian accountant, and you know your food and labour costs weekly instead of discovering them at year-end.
Common questions
How are tips supposed to be taxed for my staff?
It depends on who controls them. Tips the restaurant controls — added to bills, pooled and distributed by you — generally run through payroll with CPP and EI, while tips customers hand directly to staff generally don't create employer withholdings. Getting the distinction right matters in a payroll review, and it starts with the point-of-sale and the books agreeing on which kind your Windsor restaurant actually has.
Is everything on my menu subject to HST?
Restaurant meals in Ontario are taxable — prepared food is not the same as groceries — and catering, delivery platforms, and packaged retail items can each have their own wrinkles. The safe structure is a point-of-sale configured correctly once, feeding books that are reconciled daily, so the HST return is an output instead of a quarterly research project.
Some of my customers and suppliers are in Michigan. Does that complicate my books?
It can — cross-border revenue, US-dollar transactions, and non-resident customers each have their own treatment, and the right answers depend on your specific situation. taxifi keeps the Canadian books clean and current, and the accountant flags and scopes the cross-border questions before they become filing-season surprises.
I already have a bookkeeper or accountant in Windsor. How hard is switching?
The switch is free: we deal with your current provider directly, collect your file and history, and take over the monthly work. Any catch-up is scoped and priced before you commit. Your part is about an hour, and mid-year is fine.
Your Windsor restaurant, books and taxes handled
One flat monthly price for incorporated Ontario businesses, quoted live on a short call.
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