What you're up against
- Outgrowing spreadsheets and QuickBooks
- No controller, and not ready to hire one
- Cash surprises as you add locations
- Bookkeepers you have to find and manage
For scaling independents
From One Location To Many, Without Building A Finance Team.
Spreadsheets stop working around location three. Kit gives you the team and the platform to scale, without a controller on payroll.
The Scaling Reality
Grow Without The Growing Pains.
With Kit
- A dedicated team included from day one
- Reconciled weekly P&Ls as you grow
- A 90-day cash forecast across locations
- Capacity that scales with you
The Stakes
What This Quietly Costs You.
$5,864to replace one hourly employee, and it never shows on your P&L
$10k/yrlost per location for every 1% of labor you can’t catch in time
35%of vendor invoices carry an overcharge most operators never catch
How It Works
The Financial Infrastructure To Scale An Independent Restaurant.
Spreadsheets and QuickBooks carry a single location fine. Somewhere around the third unit they break: cash gets harder to see, payroll gets harder to run, and the obvious next move is to hire a controller and a bookkeeping team you then have to manage. That overhead arrives long before the revenue to justify it does.
Kit gives you the finance department without the hires. As you add units, consolidated reporting rolls every location into one view, you get real cash visibility and a 90-day forecast across the group, and restaurant-native payroll handles tip credits, spread of hours and multi-pool splits automatically. Kit owns the general ledger directly, closes each weekly P&L within 36 hours of week-end, and pays tips same day or next morning.
A dedicated team of staff accountants, a senior accountant and a relationship manager grows with you, and onboarding takes about two weeks, for roughly one-third the cost of the multi-vendor stack. You scale on real numbers, not on faith.
Questions
Scaling Independent FAQs.
How does Kit support an independent going from one location to many?
Kit gives you a finance department without the hires. As you add units, consolidated reporting, real cash visibility and restaurant-native payroll all scale with you, and a dedicated team of staff accountants, a senior accountant and a relationship manager grows alongside the business instead of you building one in-house.
When do I get my weekly P&L as I add locations?
Within 36 hours of week-end, per location and consolidated across the group. You make growth decisions on current numbers rather than waiting weeks for a month-end close that arrives too late to act on.
Do I need to hire a controller to scale?
No. That is the point. Kit includes the team and owns the general ledger directly, so you get controller-level reporting, AP automation and cash management for roughly one-third the cost of the multi-vendor stack, without a finance hire on payroll.
Can Kit handle payroll and tips for a growing crew?
Yes. Kit runs restaurant-native payroll with tip credits, spread of hours and multi-pool tip splits built in, and pays tips same day or next morning. Banking and payroll are powered by Priority Technologies (NASDAQ: PRTH). Replacing one hourly employee costs about $5,864, so getting labor and pay right protects margin as you grow.
What does Kit replace as we scale, and how fast is onboarding?
Kit replaces Restaurant365, Bill.com, MarginEdge, Craftable, Paylocity, Gusto, 7shifts and standalone restaurant banking, and integrates with Toast as a partner. Onboarding takes about two weeks, and ten years of Restaurant365 history migrates in 45 minutes, so it is days, not months.
Scale Without A Finance Department.
Try Kit free and grow on real numbers.
Money talks. Kit translates.