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Toast POS
4.2
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Cloud-based Point of Sale solution for restaurants

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Toast POS Features

Features Summary

Functionality

4.1

/5

459

Total features

74

9 categories

Toast POS features

API
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Billing & Invoicing
Built-in Accounting

Common features of Restaurant POS software

API
Access Controls/Permissions
Accounting Integration
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Barcode Recognition
Barcode/Ticket Scanning
Cash Management

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165

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Functionality

4.1

/5

459

Price starts from

165

Per month

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Total Features

74

Unique features

  • API

  • Real Time Analytics

  • Customizable Branding

  • Order Scheduling

Functionality

4.6

/5

467

Price starts from

60

Per month

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Total Features

81

Features in Common

34

Unique features

  • Real Time Data

  • Real Time Updates

  • Reorder Management

  • Purchase Order Management

Functionality

4.4

/5

474

Price starts from

69

Per month

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Total Features

52

Features in Common

47

Unique features

  • Clock In/Out

  • Sales Trend Analysis

  • For Retail

  • Customer History

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heather m.

Restaurants, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Toast is a modern and still growing POS and restaurant management product

Reviewed 4 years ago

Toast has helped us organize and stay nimble through aggressive company growth. Looking forward to the next period with Toast where we adopt their HR, payroll, and scheduling features.

Pros

Toast allows users to log on to its website to edit menu items, run reports, track punch-in's. In the past, POS systems were loaded into desktops in the back office. It's so refreshing to update, edit, and from anywhere because it's based off a website. The devices that Toast has selected for installation in the restaurants are modern, slim, and highly functional.

Cons

Toast can slow down, which isn't good news when the restaurant is busy. The sales tracking is still not as robust as I would hope from a product that does so much else so well. For instance, it can be hard to get results on the sales of a menu item for an entire year.

Vendor response

Hi Heather, Jasmine from Toast here. I'm thrilled to hear you are seeing the benefits of a cloud-based software and enjoy our hardware. We also look forward to continuing to work with you and helping your restaurant thrive!

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Hospitality, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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I'd give it a 10 but then it would be perfect!

Reviewed 3 years ago

Overall, I really enjoy the system. It's simple to program and they have a great support system. It's worth the investment to pay for extended support until you or a manager has the ins and outs of the backend in hand. The reporting is awesome and when used the right way, you have your answers to questions you didn't even know you needed to ask.

Pros

I have been using restaurant POS for over 20 years and Toast has shown itself to be one of the best on the market. It is so user-friendly and easy to work in, including the handhelds, that it's amazing. In training new teams they offer a great program and support team. The layout is ideal for high-volume. Reporting is excellent. I refer Toast to most of our clients.

Cons

As with any new system you install, there will be issues and "clunks." Toast is no exception. The worst was the display screen and the use of it on the line. If you do not set aside enough time to train, prior to opening or first use, it will be challenging to understand, especially if you are not used to systems other than tickets and calling out. It just takes time getting used to and working out the kinks upon install.

Vendor response

Hi there, Mora from Toast here. It's great to hear that your positive experiences with Customer Care have enabled you to efficiently train up new team members. Thank you for providing this feedback!

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Elizabeth V.

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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I have gone from recommending TOAST to experiencing extreme frustration w/ terrible customer service

Reviewed 3 years ago

Additional CONS that didn't fit in the above box: *Unable to offer discounts for particular items online. Let's say you want to promote a particular food item that week and want to offer 50% off that item ONLY...can't do it. You can discount the ENTIRE check or offer a BOGO, but no way to discount specific items. *Can't use APPLE devices with Toast, only Android *Unable to have a popup or a visible...

Pros

*user friendly *online reporting accessible from anywhere *online food ordering *easy to add menu items

Cons

*excessive hold times to reach support, ie: more than one hour and no way to email support anymore (as was the previous system.) *no way to reach support via email, even when Toast emails a restaurant, the restaurant can't reply because the email gets bounced back...instead you have to get off email, find a computer, log in and navigate to support, find the case and respond there. This is a big problem...

Vendor response

Hi Elizabeth, Mora from Toast here. I'm sorry this has been a frustrating experience. The process for applying relief credit does involve multiple internal teams, so thank you for working with our Customer Care team to resolve this. We have been investing in growing our Customer Care team to address the concerns of our community, but we recognize that we still have work to do. Thank you for this feedback, it's helpful to hear what areas need improvement.

MW
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Mike W.

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Toast versus others

Reviewed 2 months ago
Pros

Toast is a simple to use and even easier to train POS platform for all restaurants. Setting up menus and editing are both quick and easy and can be done for multiple restaurants at the same time.

Cons

Some of the reports have a time constant that you can run them for, like 6 months, would prefer to be able to run full year sales reports or more if needed.

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Stuart C.

Restaurants, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Easy to implement

Reviewed 6 months ago

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

Pros

The suite of features in the software make it easy to integrate into almost any restaurant environment. They have an excellent team to get you started and help you design your system to your specs. Email marketing and loyalty program have been great for us.

Cons

I am not very happy with the fact that we were forced to take on Toast as our payment processor! This is costing us way more in fees than my original "Interchange Plus" processing that I had through my bank. This is a little disconcerting and could add up to some major dollars in expense!

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Nathan R.

Restaurants, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Toast is best POS we have ever used!

Reviewed 6 months ago

This has hands down been the best experience with a POS company and software that I have had in over 35 years in the industry.

Pros

Functionality, ease of use, price, adaptability, continues upgrades with additions of new features, ability to request features

Cons

Customer phone service is very poor. Often get new and/or not well trained agent.

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Shayna F.

Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best Decision we made in 2022

Reviewed 5 months ago

This was the best decision we made in 2022. The customer service and offerings of the platform are next to none. This is our 3rd POS system since opening 7 years ago, and I can say with confidence, it is the best of what's around.

Pros

I love how robust it is! The search bar feature at the top makes it easy to find what you are looking for in a platform that is really encompassing of any of our retail and restaurant POS needs. I also love Quick Edit and that people on the floor can make quick changes without relying on management to go into the back office.

Cons

I wish there were a mobile app that would allow me to quickly check sales instead of having to login through a browser.

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Patrick M.

Food Production, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Excellent Service, with one caveat

Reviewed 7 months ago

The system itself is excellent, though their customer service leaves something to be desired.

Pros

Easy to use, easy to set up different stations (bar, kitchen, prep), very little goes wrong day to day

Cons

I've stopped contacting customer service because, most often, I know more about the system than they do. Multiple times I've called or chatted, asking for some feature to be implemented to be told that it can't be done; only to find, after some detective work by me, that it can, in fact, be done.

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Charles G.

Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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An Affordable Alternative to Aloha and Micros

Reviewed 3 years ago

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

Pros

TOAST is a solid point of sale system available for a very reasonable price. Adding, editing and removing menu items can be done quickly and remotely. Printer routing and other back of house set up is a breeze. Customer service staff is well trained and very reliable.

Cons

Not really designed for large scale/ high volume operations. KDS screens have some issues.

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Food & Beverages, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Learning curve

Reviewed 4 years ago

decent, not thrilled

Pros

There are a lot of features and functionality with Toast, how to use them is another thing

Cons

Not very intuitive to use. Also i have not been able to get ahold of customer service

Vendor response

Hi there, Jasmine from Toast here. If you're having trouble reaching Toast Support over the phone, log on to Toast Central to chat with them live during business hours. This is also where you can find Toast University, a library of all the training courses you need to be successful with Toast!

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Anang M.

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Glad we selected this solution

Reviewed 4 years ago

Very pleased with our decision to replace our old solution with Toast.

Pros

Very feature rich with a robust online delivery platform that seamlessly integrates with the POS solution. Synchronization is almost immediate and we have seen a huge increase in online ordering already. The self service kiosk was easy to setup and has a great look and feel

Cons

Overwhelming and we have barely begun to turn on all the other features - customer loyalty, customer feedback, delivery and so on.

Vendor response

Hi Anang, Jasmine from Toast here. We're thrilled to hear you have been driving online orders with Toast Digital Ordering as well as enjoying Toast Kiosk. We hope you will soon be able to take advantage of everything Toast has to offer! Please refer to Toast Central at https://central.toasttab.com/s/ for best practices and educational material while you get rolling.

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Paulette M.

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Best & Most Efficient POS System we have used in our 27 Years in Business

Reviewed 6 months ago

The best POS system we have ever used. It provides all the tools we need to run our small business. We will never go back and I love that you guys are constantly adding more features.

Pros

Online Ordering, reporting, ease of Menu updates, delivery by DoorDash… there is anything that I’m not impressed with.

Cons

Truly nothing… I absolutely love all the features that Toast offers

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Matt P.

Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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The Gold Standard of Restaurant Point of Sale Systems

Reviewed 5 months ago

Truly exceptional. Toast support and continued development of the platform will keep me a guest /client for life. I’m impressed at every turn and I have a ton of experience w other systems. Toast is just so far ahead.

Pros

Deep easy to use functionality Incredible reporting and kitchen management.

Cons

I would love the addition of a report writer. Reporting is deep and covers my needs but I’m a data hound and would love a report writer.

SG
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Susan G.

Food & Beverages, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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systems that help deal with labor shortage

Reviewed 6 months ago

Toast has made our business easier to operate. Program it to be intuitive and supply the answers you staff need when guests ask common questions.

Pros

hand helds and their ease of use. Service staff can take care of more guests more efficiently and spend more time with the guest rather than running back and forth to the terminals to input orders.

Cons

can't think of anything at this time, it works well for us

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Joan S.

Restaurants, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A Nightmare from Day 1

Reviewed 8 months ago

Customer service is abysmal. We got a hard sales pitch from their rep, and they knew we needed a seamless launch, as we have two busy locations. After several weeks of discussions and group calls with their rep, we were all assured by Toast rep, before launch date, that everything was set to go, no additional settings or tweaks would be needed. As it turned out, there were MANY essential steps that...

Pros

It initially fulfilled our need to have orders print out directly in kitchen and for system to integrate with delivery services and online ordering...

Cons

1) Overly complicated for our front of house management 2) Customer service is abysmal - there is allegedly a 24/7 help line, which is NOT always available. There have been times when we had major system issues during busy hours and had to leave message to wait for a callback. Unlike every other b-to-b service we use, they don't have dedicated customer reps - all the manpower is in sales, and once they've got you installed -- even before successful setup -- they drop you. Bait and switch. 3) Proprietary equipment is expensive and prone to errors/breakdown

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Tim R.

Restaurants, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend1/10

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Disappointed is the right way to say it. Promised so much and did not deliver

Reviewed 3 years ago

It started off strong, and then just slowly going down hill. They have you locked in is how I feel, and now they don’t care.. They are worried about other things...

Pros

The hardware is nice. Having a handheld order taker is very nice. Also saving some paper with people signing the handheld device, but there are some issues as well. If there is an issue, it is nice to have a US based support center..

Cons

Well, You can not add an auto charge of 3% if a person is using a credit card unless you manually add it, the kitchen display has glitches, an order with 5 things will send a text alert for each item rather than the entire order when finished. I was also promised that the credit cards would not cost more, they would match or beet what I had in the past, and that is not ringing true to the tune of around...

Vendor response

Hi Tim, Mora from Toast here. Thank you for all this feedback, we appreciate hearing from you as we work to continuously improve our product! We do have many great feature ideas in our queue from customers and are constantly working on implementing them. I would encourage you to follow "Feature Release Updates", available on Toast Central (central.toasttab.com). This is where you can find the most up-to-date product release notes for various Toast products.

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Devin W.

Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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A disastrous experiment

Reviewed 2 years ago

The initial sales experience was exhausting. It's like they hire people from the mattress stores: they quote you prices at 4,000% of what they need and then call you constantly, coming down. The equipment's sleek and they're good at helping with installation. But if you're a small outfit like mine, they probably sold you twice as much stuff as you need. Pre-pandemic the customer service was on...

Pros

The UI is pretty intuitive and the reporting is very solid.

Cons

It failed constantly. They're charging me anyway.

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Kristina K.

Restaurants, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Act Now!

Reviewed 6 months ago

Overall very satisfied with toast! Would recommend to any growing company!

Pros

User friendly! Customer service and software is up to current.

Cons

That it's still in the building blocks stages and it's not 100% full proof when integrated with third party deliveries. It will unarchive old data daily. One has to be very dedicated to this position to make it work!

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Theo K.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Toast is really a great system easy & saves time. Problems false promises from sales rep & cc fees

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

That is super user friendly. Fast and overall a great system. Seriously aside from what I write in the CON section. Toast REALLY is the best software POS system I have worked with. Hands down.

Cons

The credit card processing fees they initially promise you they can match your current rates which they DO NOT its a LIE. Then customer service never gets back to you or passes you on to someone else then someone else and someone else. Never follow through with their promises and never can get ahold of your sales rep and he doesn't reply or follow through when you finally do get him on phone. Beware...

Vendor response

Hi Theo - It's great to hear that Toast has saved you time and made the business more efficient. We strive to make merchant processing as transparent and straightforward as possible. It's great advice to discuss rates upfront and get the clear rate breakdown. Please work with our Support team to address your concerns. We want to find a solution that works for you.

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Andrew M.

Restaurants, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend1/10

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Online ordering is a mess

Reviewed 2 years ago

The system is slick but they don't help you get it going correctly.

Pros

Great analytics but the on boarding and follow up customer service is embarrassing.

Cons

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. They are responsive but spend a lot of time telling you how they understand where you're coming from without actually solving any problems. It got so ridiculous that I asked a basic question about how toast had approved a test transaction outside of the 5 mile...

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Rachel L.

Food & Beverages, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Toast Toast Toast

Reviewed 5 months ago

I think that overall I enjoy Toast, I am not looking to change over to anything new. I really dislike the tech support side. I had an issue that took 4 months to resolve that seriously impacted my business and I kept having to re-explain my issue over and over again and call multiple times a week for answers. I also have have pretty incompetent people not able to troubleshoot with me over the phone...

Pros

I love the back end use of toast, once you understand how to set up the menus, it is really easy to go in and make changes. I love the ability to compare sales from any date, and I love the daily/ weekly break down all in one area. It's also very user friendly when ringing up customers, once it is all organized, it's quick and efficient.

Cons

Some of the lesser used components are overly complex like the sales categories and how to make changes and groupings. Assigning comp buttons doesn't always work. I just wish that there had been more help upon set up.

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lisa k.

Restaurants, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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system is poorly developed and fragile

Reviewed a year ago

TERRIBLE!!! It was halfway decent when we started but their menu development was terrible. they need to survey restaurant users about how much the system has deteriorated over the past 2 years. I would never recommend this system to anyone

Pros

nothing.....everytime there is any change or system maintenacne, everything falls apart.

Cons

UNRELIABLE!!!!no one in TOAST can troubleshoot because system has gotten too complex and no documentation exists. they keep patching and adding and it's a total disaster. our printers are always messed up!!!! we never know if the system is going to work or not. the reporting is terrible!!! phone support is poorly trained if at all.

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Patrick P.

Hospitality, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Good but could be better

Reviewed 5 months ago

Over all our experience is positive. Being able to extract data from sales & labor is a big help in budgeting for future sales periods

Pros

The ease of updating menu products, employee information and setting up specials/time specific sales. Also the ease to correct transactions & issue refunds is a pro.

Cons

There are some features that could be implemented. Adding drink / food recipes look up to the menu item button would be very helpful. Also adding a generic calculator app for the staff to access would also be very helpful

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Kristin B.

Hospitality, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Company launch to 5 locations

Reviewed 6 months ago

Overall, the experience has been positive, with the exception of having a dedicated Toast employees to ask questions of, we are referred to the toast classroom.

Pros

Toast is mobile for administrative purposes, it's live reporting, and easily used from mobile devices

Cons

I don't have control of processing fees, I don't have access to customized reporting

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Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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One of the most intuitive POS systems I have encountered

Reviewed 4 years ago

When I began using Toast there was fear of a learning curve however I immediately adapted to it as it seemingly was designed by the professionals in the industry who use it. Everything is where it needs to be and it is incredibly easy to train new employees on the system even without previous experience working with a POS system.

Pros

Very intuitive user interface Incredibly easy to pick up and go with previous POS system knowledge Very responsive clicks Great organization tools for menu options Split check function is much easier to use than other systems Credit card transaction time is very fast

Cons

Training entire staff over to a new POS Other than the cost of training and time for adaptation there is no reason this POS should not be ranked alongside the industry standards like Aloha and Micros

Vendor response

Hi there, Jasmine from Toast here. It¿s great to hear that Toast is helping your restaurant become more efficient and that it is easy to use and integrate into your restaurant. We are glad some of our features, like the split check function and quick credit card transaction, are helping your operations. We're excited to continue to help you to thrive!