For single-location restaurants and early-stage operators, it’s the go-to tool for managing finances. But if you're growing fast, adding locations, or expanding your team, you’ve likely noticed something:
QuickBooks starts to break under the weight of your growth.
At Tablespoon, we work with restaurant brands every week who hit the same wall: You’ve got a 50-unit vision—but you’re still stuck with 5-location tools.
Here’s how to know you’ve outgrown QuickBooks—and what to do about it.
QuickBooks doesn’t handle multi-entity restaurants well. If you're exporting CSVs, juggling multiple company files, or stitching together reports in Excel—you're bleeding time.
“We had to close books store by store. Then consolidate manually. It took us three weeks to finish every month.” — Restaurant CFO
Running transactions between stores, a management company, or a commissary? QuickBooks wasn't built for that complexity. You’re probably relying on clunky workarounds or dealing with inconsistent data.
QuickBooks reporting is one-dimensional. For fast-growing restaurants, that means delays in visibility. You can’t afford to wait two weeks to know if a store is bleeding cash.
Real-time data isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity when you’re operating across 10, 20, or 50 units.
If headcount in accounting is growing faster than your store count, that’s a red flag. The right system should scale with your business—not require more bodies just to keep up.
When audits roll around, are you scrambling for paper trails, rechecking spreadsheets, or hunting down missing documentation? QuickBooks lacks the internal controls and audit-readiness of enterprise systems.
QuickBooks isn’t bad. It’s just not built for fast-growing restaurant groups.
A cloud-native financial system tailored for multi-unit restaurant operations.
That’s exactly what Tablespoon delivers.
We don’t just install software—we implement scalability. With restaurant-native templates and processes, we make it easy for finance teams to modernize without the headache.
“We were on QuickBooks and Excel for 30+ locations. Closing took 3 weeks. With Tablespoon and Sage Intacct, we’re closing in 5–7 days. That’s 123% faster—and no more spreadsheet chaos.” — CFO, Mountain West Wendy’s
You’re not building for the next quarter. You’re building for the next 20 locations.
And the systems you put in place today will either enable—or block—that growth.
So if QuickBooks is holding you back, don’t wait until your team is underwater. There’s a better way to grow.
Let’s take 20 minutes. We’ll show you how the right finance system can unlock growth—and how Tablespoon makes it restaurant-ready.