Built by the controllers who became the key person risk.

The firm

Run by controllers. Built for restaurant groups.

Open Book Hospitality is a boutique practice run by people who have actually held the controller seat inside multi-entity restaurant groups. We're the kind of controllers who spent years being the person every task got handed to: because we were reliable, because we knew where everything lived, because we could close a month with one hand on the keyboard and the other on the phone with a vendor. We were the key person risk. We know exactly what that looks like from the inside.

Twenty-five years of accounting craft per practitioner. Fifteen-plus years on average inside restaurant accounting between us. Over a decade lived in Restaurant365 every day. We've closed books for single-location operators, regional groups with a dozen entities, and most of what's in between.

The firm exists because we kept watching the same pattern repeat: first to ourselves, then to people we'd hired, then to controllers we'd advised. A great person holds the whole operation together for two years. They leave. The institutional memory walks out with them, and ownership spends the next ninety days putting it back together from receipts.

That's a fixable problem. It just takes somebody who's been on both sides of it: the person doing the holding, and the person who later had to rebuild what nobody had bothered to write down.

"The goal isn't to make ourselves indispensable. The goal is to make your accounting operation so well documented that nobody is."

Background

What we bring to the table.

• Fifty-plus years in accounting between us. A career built on closes, audits, and reconciliations across industries, but increasingly inside hospitality.
• Over a decade in Restaurant365. Implementations, clean-ups, integrations, and day-to-day administration. The kind of fluency that only comes from living in the product.
• Fifteen-plus years inside restaurant accounting, on average. Holding companies, joint ventures, intercompany transactions, location-level P&Ls. The multi-entity structures real restaurant groups actually run on.
• Operator-side perspective. We've sat next to GMs and chefs, not just behind a CPA's desk. We know what reporting actually has to do for a restaurant to run.

How we work

Controller-led. Documented. Quietly persistent.

Every engagement is run by people who have actually held a controller seat in a restaurant group. Never handed down to juniors, never bounced between unfamiliar faces. We keep the client roster small on purpose. The work requires real attention, and the relationship is built on knowing your business well enough to catch things before they become problems.

We work in writing. Documentation is the deliverable. If it isn't written down, we haven't done the job.

And we stay quiet. The best version of this work is invisible. Months go by where nothing dramatic happens, your close lands when it's supposed to, and ownership doesn't have to think about accounting at all. That's the goal.