Toast POS vs Lightspeed Restaurant

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Four Mile Pig Overview For Toast 

Hi Tammy! Carrisa here with Toast. Thank you for leaving us a review and sharing your experience using Toast. If you haven't already, we encourage you to join us at community.toasttab.com to connect with other industry leaders.

Made daily operations at the restaurant much quicker and smoother. 

Toast has been a huge upgrade for our restaurant.

After over a year the restaurant is still super happy with the switch 

Great POS for restaurants 

Hi Rachel, Mora from Toast here. We're thrilled to hear that you've found Toast simple to teach and easy to update. Thanks for the review! 

Overall it was one of the best POSS systems I used.

Very reliable and user friendly 

Hi Jennifer- Jasmine from Toast here. I'm happy to hear you find our POS system reliable and user friendly! We do have integrated employee scheduling partners. For more information on our existing labor scheduling partners, visit pos.toasttab.com/integrations or reach out to your Restaurant Success Manager/Toast Support.

We have been using toast for a year in our restaurant and love it. 

Toast is terrific!

Great POS system for our restaurant, staff loves it and so does management. 

Toast is essential for Restaurants

Hi Paris, thanks for leaving us a review! 

I'm now pretty savvy w/ Toast POS after 6 mo of use.

Very Robust and Versatile POS w/ minor hiccups and One NO NO Add-On Feature

Hi Charles, we appreciate your review. We'll be sure to pass along your feedback to our team. - Carrisa

The benefits from Toast were great. Unfortunately I don't work at a restaurant with Toast anymore.

Great software

It keeps me up to date in real time with what is happening in my restaurant.

Easy to implement

two location restaurant .  1 fast casual with only main terminal.  2nd with KDS and  handhelds.

Best system.  I wont switch

Toast is by far the best POS and payroll system I have ever worked with. Not having to toggle between and punch system, sales reporting, tip outs and payroll software. Everything is integrated and communicates well. I learn everyday the many capabilities Toast offers and very much enjoy working with the system. I also very much enjoy the customer service team. They are knowledgeable and provide response in a timely manner. They are always happy to help and go above and Beyond. 

Best System

Honestly, very solid and great pos for a restaurant or a retail business. Easy to use

Great POS, better than aloha

Hi Lucas, Thanks for leaving us a review! We appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback. If you haven't already, we encourage you to join our Toast Community at community.toasttab.com to connect with other Toast restauranteurs. Hope to see you there. 

Five stars, we have not left yet and recommend to all our other restaurant owner friends. 

Bbq Restaurant

Hi Heather, thanks for the 5-star rating!

Toast training, implementation, reporting and daily use is great.

Toast is great

Nothing is perfect...improving operating readability and customization will improve in the future. 

Comprehensive Restaurant Information

It increased efficiency and accuracy in every part of our restaurant.  The reporting is incredibly detailed, yet easy to navigate.  

Best thing to happen to our restaurant!

Personal Feedback 

Hi Marina, thanks for the review. We appreciate your feedback and always looking for ways to make improvements. 

Customizable to your needs 

It’s a great option but geared more toward restaurants and food delivery. Amazing interface that is clean and modern!

Great For Restaurants

Toast is a easy to use point of sale software that gets the job done!

Toast is awesome!

A perfect system for a small restaurant with a lot of very handy features. They are extremely flexible with pricing options.

An Affordable Alternative to Aloha and Micros

We're able to track inventory and breakdown restaurant operations in fine detail. 

Customers love paying right at the table on the tablets. 

Toast is Great

Great, easy to use product

Toast Review

Hi Jimmy, thanks for leaving us a review! 

Quick Set Up

If you own small restaurant, you may consider this POS. But they are newbie from retail POS. So if you dont require to many modifier, this is good. 

Need improvement. But good for small business

Great Product for Seasonal Restaurants!

Lightspeed Restaurant Accountant

Been reliable part of our business for over 4 years now. 

Affordable and reliable 

User Friendly

Really happy with this POS, easy to use and learn, customisable, cost effective. Links in well with xero.

Customisable and User Friendly 

Overall, our experience has been great, but no software is perfect. Their rates are comparable, but the customer support is phenomenal. 

Lightspeed POS for Restaurant

The POS system that caters for everyone and everything. The team just keep bringing out better and better versions!!

BEST POS System!!

Incredible Platform

Lightspeed has been really good to us over the past 4 years with regards to reports and POS systems. 

Lightspeed POS

Would highly recommend for any small business.

Switched from Lightspeed

Feel like your buying high price Pos but when ou using it it feel like its a early Beta version!

Work like a Beta version

New PoS user purchased LightSpeed

I know amount that i calculate manual in every type of payment are balance or not because kounta showing it amount minus or over, so we can double check before we accept to close cashier or shift.

Not worthed as  the expensive price 

Very easy and intuitive, great support resources from KTV.  Great features that allow detailed interrogation of POS date for performance analysis.

The Byabarra

Very user friendly!

Very easy to use, easy to get help specific to your problem

Best Supported POS System

Anytime an issue or a question rise up, the team is super helpful and quick to solve it !

Best on the market

Kounta POS is In the implementation stages of introduction into our store  & we feel  that it has satisfied our needs so far...

 Kounta is great...

If there was another option that exceeded the value, I would recommend a change for something that is more intuitive, more user friendly, and offered more complete support.

Lightspeed for Bicycle Retail

Exactly what we were hoping for

Easy to use, excellent reporting features.

I have moved to kounta and im extremely happy with the pos great and easy to use and great value for money with excellent customer support thanks 

Great pos 

User for 6 months with two stations and in house server

Compare Toast POS and Lightspeed Restaurant based on features, pricing, verified reviews, integrations & more. Find out which software is best for your business today.

Square Point of Sale is a POS solution for Android and iOS devices which includes tools for managing payments, digital receipts, inventory, reports, and more.

Clover is an all-in-one platform designed to help on and offline retailers, quick service restaurants, and other service businesses manage their point-of-sale operations, with secure payment solutions and reliable business management features

Aloha brings restaurants to life. Aloha is the industry-leading POS and management platform provider with both on-premise and cloud-based POS offerings.

Aloha’s core capabilities include fixed and handheld POS, online ordering, loyalty, email marketing, robust reporting, and payment processing. 

Toast POS solution is a cloud-based restaurant management platform for restaurant owners to reduce staff & operational costs and improve customer experience

Access Controls/Permissions

Accounting Integration

Activity Dashboard

Alerts/Notifications

Barcode/Ticket Scanning

Billing & Invoicing

Built-in Accounting

Cash Management

Commission Management

Contact Management

Credit Card Processing

Customer Accounts

Customer Management

Customizable Branding

Customizable Reports

Data Import/Export

Delivery Estimate

Delivery Management

Discount Management

eCommerce Management

Electronic Payments

Electronic Signature

Email Marketing

Employee Management

Food Delivery Dispatching

For Bakeries

For Bars/Clubs

For Food Trucks

For Restaurants

Gift Card Management

Inventory Control

Inventory Management

Inventory Tracking

Item Management

Kitchen/Menu Management

Loyalty Program

Menu Builder

Mobile Access

Mobile Payments

Multi-Location

Online Ordering

Online Payments

Order Entry

Order Management

Order Scheduling

Order Tracking

Ordering Automation

Payment Processing

Point of Sale (POS)

Point of Sale (POS) Integration

Pricing Management

Promotions Management

Real-Time Analytics

Real-Time Monitoring

Real-Time Reporting

Receipt Management

Reporting & Statistics

Reporting/Analytics

Reservations Management

Restaurant POS

Retail Inventory Management

Returns Management

Returns Tracking

Sales Reports

Separate Checks

SMS Messaging

Split Checks

Status Tracking

Table Management

Third-Party Integrations

Tips Management

Transaction History

Wait List Management

Website Personalization

Toast POS

Android

Linux

Web-based

Windows

Owner

Love the software and so does our staff. Expansion options were a major consideration as we have more takeout locations opening so this was a winning solution for us.

I've been trying to set up online ordering for weeks now. It's been counting a lot of problems because of the basic lack of customer support.

Sales Manager

What I liked about Toast was how easy the integration was for our management team and staff. I would highly recommend.

Business/Hospitality Consultant

The worst was the display screen and the use of it on the line.

Paralegal

Toast is a very easy and user friendly way to order food for our office. I like how straightforward the steps are on the app to order.

owner

Pretty easy to set up menus and make changes on the fly while integrating with 3rd parties...Also excellent  reporting features.

Co-Founder

Toast is an approachable new POS offering that makes it very simple to onboard and learn and their support is fantastic.

manager

Toast's NEW online ordering has a complicated drop down menu that causes guests to struggle.

Cook

Of course since it is an app it will be prone to crashes, but it is extremely inconvenient when it happens during a rush.

I know three off the top of my head who turned to Toast because we were using it, only to realize how awful the system is. Below are the reasons why Toast is a waste of money.

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