Denied Deductions for Inadequate Business Records
In order to claim a deduction, the federal tax law requires that you provide evidence for a trade or business expense. This means you must show the...
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Strategies for Small Business Sustainability
In the realm of business ownership, the perennial questions of "What can I deduct?" and "How can I save money?" reverberate through boardrooms and...
Year End Staff Planning for Small Business Growth
This is part II in our series on how to create meaningful year-end planning for your small business. This week’s focus? How to plan for staffing...
Small Business Growth Planning for the End of the Year
Growing your small business should be one of your primary goals, especially early in your business’s lifecycle. Understanding how to do that requires...
Hiring an Employee vs Hiring an Independent Contractor: What a CPA wants you to know
Hiring an employee or an independent contractor isn’t as simple as you’d think. In fact, there are real world implications for misclassifying a...
How to get better restaurant reviews: deliver an ‘amazing experience’
For the last few months we’ve been delivering you (pun intended) a series of articles on how to create an atmosphere conducive to meeting the goals...
Profit First is hard work. Here’s why your small business should implement it anyway.
Let’s get this out of the way first – Profit First IS NOT a “set it and forget it” solution. If you’re looking for a hands off solution to your...
Marketing for Restaurants: Where to Start
As a restaurant owner, you know that the BEST marketing is great food and service. For the purposes of this article, we’ll assume that you have that...
Which Restaurant Pricing Strategy Works Best?
Setting menu prices for your restaurant is tough work. While to your customers these prices might feel arbitrary, a good menu will have up to three...
Why your business needs to switch from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online ASAP
At Kaizen, QuickBooks Online (QBO) is our preferred accounting platform for our clients. It’s a flexible, powerful software that allows us to map out...
How to set up online delivery for restaurants in 5 steps
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, online ordering has become an integral part of any restaurant plan. Even traditionally delivery-averse restaurants are...
How to Cultivate Customer Relationships for Restaurants
Look, we’re not breaking new ground when we say that customer relationships are the lynchpin of any restaurant. After all, they call it the...