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Throughput accounting is a new concept relating to the basic principles of management accounting. This accounting concept was developed by Dr. Eli Goldratt, an Israeli business management guru and originator of the Theory of Constraints management method. Throughput Accounting changes the way an organization thinks internally about revenue recognition, costs and profitability and therefore changes the figures used for decision making. However, in traditional enterprise, its main focus is usually on the reduction of the cost and expense, that is, to reduce the expenditure, therefore, the cost allocation principle of the accounting method used might lead to disguised cost reduction of some enterprise owners with over-emphasis on cost reduction, for example, adulterated oil and food safety issues, etc. However, reduction of cost should always reach a limit because each product has its price which will not possibly be zero, therefore, to earn money, the enterprise must expand its financial resources continuously so that the enterprise can make more money continuously, and this is like the five focusing steps in the theory of constraint, that is, the enterprise can reach its goal of continuous profit making only through continuous improvement. In this study, the throughput accounting concept of in the theory of constraint is applied in the operation strategy analysis of one restaurant, and the five focusing steps of the theory of constraint is used to help the restaurant to find out the system’s constraint of the restaurant and to find out improvement projects or good decisions, meanwhile, the throughput accounting concept of is used to verify the feasibility of all kinds of scenario simulations. From the scenario simulation results, it can be seen that no matter the system’s constraint factor of the restaurant is internal or external of the restaurant, as long as the production capacity of the production capacity constraint resource can be improved, the investment return of the restaurant should be able to be enhanced.
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