Restaurant / cafe
Cedar Table
Company profile · Monthly journey in preparation
How it began
Nia and Ben opened a neighbourhood cafe with a short seasonal menu. Nia buys ingredients and Ben closes the counter. The sample follows bookkeeping only, with kitchen operations deliberately outside its claims.
Nia Cedar
Business lead
Ben Spoon
Records and operations
Fictional background is storytelling. Only linked recorded events change the sample books. Amounts are illustrative base-currency units; no country tax rules are implied.
Trace a table order through the books
Use a restaurant bookkeeping example to compare a cash sale, stock movement, supplier bill and correction.
- Review the food and beverage items and the opening stock position.
- Trace the table/KOT example to its cash sale and cost of goods sold.
- Review the supplier purchase, payment and returned goods as separate accounting events.
- Inspect the daily expense correction and its linked reversal.
What this example does and does not show
- The sample does not implement tables, kitchen production, recipes, modifiers or service workflow.
- Food and beverage labels are sample teaching data, not food-safety or tax guidance.
- Inventory and cash totals reconcile to the posted ledger events.
A practice event remains unposted
2026-09-12 · restaurant-event-05 is staged for review.
The proposed outflow is 400.0000 and the recorded available balance is 200.0000, a shortfall of 200.0000 base-currency units.
No agreed overdraft facility is recorded. The permitted bank overdraft is 0.0000.
The authored payment exceeds the operational bank balance. No agreed overdraft facility is recorded, so its limit is zero. The supplier bill remains unpaid; the payment has no effect on the bank or the payable. No funding or credit facility has been invented.
Inspect the source evidence before choosing a correction. No funding or credit facility has been invented to make this practice event pass.
Monthly journey in preparation
Profile and existing teaching scenario available. Enriched monthly chapters are not yet complete.
The existing scenario below is available to inspect. It is not a completed month-by-month story.
Follow the story in your own books
This story accompanies sample pack 1.1.0. If your installed sample predates it, its guide explains which chapters require the newer pack. Keep an existing real company’s chart and history intact.
Open the demo, choose Cedar Table, then open Sample guide. Your guide opens the matching entries and reports.
Open the demo Read the bookkeeping lessons
Restaurant and catering bookkeeping example; tables, recipes, kitchen production and service operations are not implemented.