◆The Finance Department
The finance department for growing restaurant groups
You shouldn't have to wait three weeks to find out your restaurant lost money. Weekly restaurant financials. Services built around exactly what your business needs. One flat monthly price. Built by restaurant operators who know the difference between a food-cost problem and a bookkeeping problem.
Not a restaurant? We serve retail, service, hospitality, and founder-led groups too — the same weekly, tailored financial foresight, wherever you do business. See the industries we serve.
Weekly
P&L visibility — not month-old reports
Tailored
Services scoped to exactly what you need
Foresight
Confidence and clarity, never anxiety
◆ If this sounds like your month
By the time you see the numbers, the month is already gone.
Your month-end close lands 15 to 20 days after the month is already over.
You find out a location lost money three weeks too late to do anything about it.
Food-cost variance shows up as a surprise — never as an early signal.
Your accountant needs every restaurant concept explained from scratch.
Invoices arrive with line items and fees you never approved.
You're running a multi-million-dollar business on stale numbers and gut feel.
◆ What changes
Friday morning arrives — and nothing catches you by surprise.
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Month-old reports that tell you what already happened
Weekly numbers, delivered Friday 08:00 AM
A one-size-fits-all package you have to fit into
Scoped to exactly what your business needs
Surprise invoices with hourly add-ons
One flat monthly price — no surprises, ever
Accountants who need everything explained
Operators who already know restaurants
That's what you're actually buying. Not reports — confidence.
◆ Why us
Most accounting firms are built for businesses that want to stay comfortable. We're built for people who refuse to.
We love founders with impossible ideas, ambitious goals, and the grit to keep going when everyone else says it can't be done — the entrepreneurs who mortgage their homes, work weekends, solve impossible problems, and build companies from nothing. Those are our people.
Because we've been inside growing businesses ourselves, we know finance isn't just about clean books. It's about making confident decisions, protecting cash, scaling operations, and creating the freedom to build what's next.
If you're looking for someone to categorize transactions once a month, there are thousands of firms that can help. If you're building something bigger — and you want a finance partner who thinks like an owner — we should talk.
◆ Operators, not observers
We've been inside the rush
◆ Meet the team
Owners talking to owners.
We've built the businesses, not just the books.
01
Holly Gardiner Novajovsky
Founder — “Holly Nova”
Built and ran finance operations for everyone from startups to multi-million-dollar groups. Founded Nova Virtual to make finance a growth engine, not a back-office chore.
02
Jody Gardiner
Fractional Controller & Director of Operations
Two decades in restaurant operations. He knows the difference between a food-cost problem and a bookkeeping problem — because he’s lived both.
03
Michael Novajovsky
Technical & Advisory Support
A network engineer by trade and the “Nova” behind Nova Virtual. He provides the technical and advisory backbone the whole team relies on.
◆ What we run for you
A finance department, not a bookkeeping service.
Bookkeeping is the foundation. Better decisions are the product.
◆ Included in scope
Weekly Bookkeeping & Close
- ◆Bank & credit card reconciliation
- ◆Weekly close
- ◆POS sync
All included — one flat monthly price
◆ The promise
Built around your business. Not a package you have to fit into.
We scope exactly the work you need and nothing you don't — then run it for one flat monthly rate. That's the promise the whole firm is built on.
100%
Tailored to your needs
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Flat monthly price
◆ Switching is easier than staying
Switching doesn't have to be painful.
We know restaurant owners hate switching accountants. So we handle it. Most clients are fully transitioned in about two weeks — while you keep running your restaurants.
Week 01
We gather everything
Your books, logins, POS access, and history — collected without disrupting a single service.
Week 02
We reconcile & restructure
We clean up what's behind you, restructure your chart of accounts, and run your first weekly close.
Ongoing
Friday numbers, every week
From here on, your numbers land Friday morning — and you stop running on last month's guesses.
◆ No cost, no pressure
Stop running your restaurant on last month's guesses.
We'll review your books, your close timeline, and your tech stack — and show you exactly what we'd run for you. No cost, no pressure.
◆ Decision-time calculator
How much decision time are you losing?
Estimated decision time lost / month
39hrs
That's time spent reacting instead of deciding — every single month. Weekly numbers give it back.
