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The firm

Independent restaurants deserve better finance.

Most restaurant CPAs started with a book of restaurant clients. We started in the restaurant. Then we built the finance practice.
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Eric Dembinski, CPA

Founder, The Kitchen CPAs
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Whyt this firm exists

Twelve years in restaurants. Fifteen years in senior corporate finance. One firm built to bring both to the table.

I started bussing tables at sixteen. By twenty-two I’d worked every job in the house. I bartended DC nightclubs through college and kept it up on weekends after I passed the CPA exam. Then fifteen years at the highest levels of corporate finance — SEC reporting, IPO readiness, more than a billion dollars raised across public markets and private capital. Most CPAs serving restaurants are good at accounting and decent at restaurants. We’re built the other way around. Read Eric’s full story.

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how we work

A 30-day onboarding, then a rhythm you can count on.

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Step 1

Diagnose

20-minute call. We look at your current setup, your numbers, and where the gaps are. No pitch.
Step 2

Clean Up

First 30 days: chart of accounts rebuilt for restaurants, prior periods reconciled, reporting templates set.
Step 3

Weekly Rythm

Weekly close, monthly operator review, quarterly planning. You always know what happened and what's next.
Step 4

Grow with you

Tax planning, capital, location two, banker conversations. We stay with you when the stakes get bigger.
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Who we work with

Independent, founder-led restaurants in the $1M–$50M annual revenue range, with our sharpest fit at $2M–$25M. The best-fit operators are the ones who:

  • Have outgrown their bookkeeper, their generalist CPA, or themselves.
  • Are reconciling Toast deposits at midnight and tired of it.
  • Got walloped by a tax or compliance event they did not see coming.
  • Are planning a second location, a capital raise, or an eventual exit — and want a finance partner who can scale with them rather than getting handed off.
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WHO WE'RE NOT FOR
Kitchen CPAs isn't for everyone. If you're shopping primarily on price, looking for a tax-season-only filing service, or running a side hustle below $1M in revenue, we're not your firm — and that's the right answer for both of us. We're built for operators who need a partner, not a vendor.
Eric – I just have to say how incredibly grateful I am to have you on board. From an accounting/tax perspective, I genuinely lie awake at night wondering why they make everything so unnecessarily difficult. Thank you, seriously, for making me feel less crazy and for being such a steady, no-BS voice in all of this.
Anita DiPietro-Catalani, CEO
Controller - AED Management
Eric – I just have to say how incredibly grateful I am to have you on board. From an accounting/tax perspective, I genuinely lie awake at night wondering why they make everything so unnecessarily difficult. Thank you, seriously, for making me feel less crazy and for being such a steady, no-BS voice in all of this.
Anita DiPietro-Catalani, CEO
Controller - AED Management
Eric – I just have to say how incredibly grateful I am to have you on board. From an accounting/tax perspective, I genuinely lie awake at night wondering why they make everything so unnecessarily difficult. Thank you, seriously, for making me feel less crazy and for being such a steady, no-BS voice in all of this.
Anita DiPietro-Catalani, CEO
Controller - AED Management

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