TVNDEM is a proactive, fixed-monthly-fee accountancy practice for UK hospitality businesses — restaurants, cafes, bars, pubs and hotels. We handle VAT, payroll, tips and cash flow with a named specialist who knows the sector. Based in Margate, serving hospitality UK-wide. Free initial consultation.
Hospitality is harder than it looks on the books
Behind every good café or restaurant is a business fighting tight margins, daily takings, seasonal swings and a wage bill that never sleeps. The accounting is genuinely more complex than most sectors — VAT that changes with eat-in versus takeaway, tips and service charges to handle correctly, and cash flow that can turn on a quiet week. A general accountant who files your year-end once isn’t enough. You need someone who understands the daily reality.
We know the Margate & Thanet scene
Margate, Broadstairs and the wider Thanet coast have become a genuine food-and-drink destination — independent restaurants, seafront cafés, micropubs, coffee roasters and seasonal spots that go flat-out in summer and quiet in winter. We’re based right here in Margate, so we understand that rhythm: the summer rush, the winter squeeze, and the cash-flow planning that gets a hospitality business through both. Local knowledge, cloud-based service.
What we handle
Cloud bookkeeping that plugs into your EPOS/till system; VAT returns done right for food and drink (including the eat-in/takeaway rules); payroll for full-time, part-time and seasonal staff, including tips and tronc; year-end accounts and corporation tax; and cash-flow forecasting so a slow month never catches you out. All on a fixed monthly fee, with a real person who knows your business.
Growing, or opening a second site?
The natural next step for a successful venue is a second one — and that raises real questions: the right structure, whether to use separate companies, VAT across sites, and how to fund the expansion. We help hospitality owners plan growth properly rather than stumbling into it, so the second site strengthens the business instead of stretching it thin.