Restaurants & Franchises

  1. Rene Balli

    Rene Balli

    CPA

    Partner

  2. Scott Howard

    Scott Howard

    CPA

    Partner

  3. Shawn Kato

    Shawn Kato

    CPA

    Partner

  4. Sashi Mirpuri

    Shashi Mirpuri

    CPA

    Partner

  5. Kristi Oates

    Kristi Oates

    CPA

    Partner

  6. Greg Zelenay

    Gregory J. Zelenay

    Managing Partner

  7. Sam Salty

    Sam Salty

    CPA, MBA

    Partner

  8. Royce Prude

    Royce Prude

    CPA

    Partner

  9. Joshua Mons

    Joshua Mons

    Director

Let us serve you while you serve them. Helping your restaurant thrive in a dynamic and competitive marketplace is at the core of our business. Our industry-experienced professionals offer a full suite of services designed to help you gain efficiency, profitability – and ultimately puts you ahead of the competition.

    Our solutions

    With increasing competition and pressure on profit margins, restaurant owners need to deliver a customer experience that keeps them coming back for more. 

    From franchise consolidation requirements to growth strategies to restaurant accounting standard changes, our restaurant specialists are experienced in addressing issues unique to quick-service, fast casual and full-service restaurants. Whether you’re an owner or operator of a multiunit franchisee, franchisor, or family-owned business, we bring the right industry knowledge to provide value-added solutions to prepare you for tomorrow’s challenges while helping you thrive in today’s marketplace.

    Our client experience is enhanced through our active participation in national and state restaurant associations. We stay ahead of changes in the industry and use this insight to provide clients with restaurant-specific alerts, newsletters, webinars and an annual restaurant benchmarks report with key performance indicators

    Rely on our restaurant services team for the tailored experience and solutions to gain the competitive edge you need to stand out in a saturated market. 

    Annual restaurant benchmarks report

    Determine how your restaurant stacks up against industry standards with Baker Tilly’s restaurant benchmarks report. Analyze your restaurant’s data against the latest industry financial and operational key performance indicators so you can better identify opportunities and make more informed, proactive business decisions.

    Flix Brewhouse is a unique concept — the planet’s only first-run dine-in cinema microbrewery, so it’s really three businesses under one roof. We needed an accounting firm that could marshal a unique set of professionals skilled in retail, hospitality and brewery verticals, and keep pace with our high growth trajectory. Baker Tilly is a terrific fit. We get plenty of hands-on partner attention, a full suite of services from audit, to tax to consulting comparable to the Big Four, but with reasonable fees.  Moving from a local firm to Baker, Tilly was one of my best moves in growing this business.  
    Allan Reagan – CEO, Flix Brewhouse
    We have relied on Baker Tilly as a trusted business advisor to help structure our growing organization strategically in order to maximize profit while allowing flexibility for future growth. With Baker Tilly’s depth of industry and technical expertise, we’ve been able to save valuable time — ultimately allowing us to devote more time to supporting our franchisees and operators so they have the resources and tools to run exceptional restaurants.
    Craig Culver, Co-Founder of Culver Franchising System, Inc.

    Our clients

    Baker Tilly has been our most trusted business advisor for more than 10 years. Their entire team has an incredible understanding of our company and our industry. They provide so much more than “just an audit or review”, including very helpful due diligence assistance and tax planning.
    Troy Hanke, Chief Financial Officer of Manna, Inc./Bridgeman Foods which operates more than 440 restaurant units