Restaurant POS

Quick Service Restaurant POS System

Quick-service restaurants are better with Toast

Faster service, efficient staff management, and loyal guests? Yeah, we’ve got the tech for that. The best part? You can afford it. Get only what you need, and choose flexible payment options with plans starting at $0 upfront.

Fulfill orders in a flash

Make ordering & payment easy for both guests and staff.

Easy to start, use and grow with
  • Screens designed for fast onboarding and order taking.
  • Update menus instantly with quick edit mode.
  • Access reporting and make changes from anywhere, instantly.
Minimize wait time
  • Keep lines moving with tickets fired directly to the kitchen.
  • Let guests self-serve and order via QR code, online or kiosks.
  • Notify guests when food is ready with automated SMS.
  • Track all takeout and delivery in one place with Orders Hub.
Improve margins and guest retention
  • Quick service restaurants on Toast outperformed reported industry average in YoY sales in 2021. [1]
  • Built to drive sales and protect your margins with commission-free online ordering.
  • Keep guests coming back with automated emails and Toast Loyalty.

Trusted by tens of thousands of quick-service restaurants of all sizes

Quick Service

"The product is so user friendly - I feel like I can teach anybody. Doesn’t matter how big one of our restaurants is or how small, Toast can accommodate what our needs are for every location."


Audra Chandler

IT manager|Velvet Taco

Cafe & Bakery

"Training is 10x easier [and] has made a huge difference in wait time - we’re at least a few minutes faster on each order."


Tanya Li

Associate Director of Operations|Flour Bakery

Fast Casual

"Toast is just what we needed - it saves us money while providing the functionality and tech support we needed so we can focus on serving our customers."


Mike Miller

Technology Consultant|Beach Hut Deli

Quick Service

"Tips went through the roof with the suggested tip amount. With Order & Pay, our tips more than doubled. My employee retention is now through the roof, it’s pretty awesome.”


Danny Rosa

Manager|New England Lobster Market & Eatery

Bar

"Having Toast all-in-one system - it’s almost like having three additional employees. [It gives] me time to focus on creating great recipes and sourcing good beer."


Justin LeGore & Alex Benbassat

Co-founders|Barkhaus

Built for quick-service restaurants by restaurant people

Operate with confidence knowing Toast is with you every step of the way.

Innovating and advocating for restaurants. Always.

Reliable through every rush

  • Restaurant-grade hardware that's built to withstand everyday spills.
  • Hardwired connections and offline mode to keep service up and running.

Free award-winning support 24/7/365

  • Stevie Award winner for customer service.
  • Choose your preferred way to get help, whether live or self-serve.
  • Lean in to a trusted community to learn from and share with your peers.

See how Toast works for your quick-service restaurant

Explore the Toast platform

How it works

Solutions built for every budget

  • Simple & fast set-up
  • Flexible payment options
  • Offline mode
  • 24/7/365 reliability

Starter Kit

For small restaurants looking for one to two terminals to get up and running.

Starting at1

$0 /month*

Explore Starter Kits
  • Toast Flex POS terminal + cloud-based POS software.

  • Toast Tap payment device + router.

  • Free setup support + customer care.

Essentials

For restaurants wanting the fundamentals for success.

Starting at

$165 /month

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  • Cloud-based POS.

  • Digital ordering & delivery tools.

  • Custom hardware configuration.

Custom

For restaurants ready to supercharge operations with a customizable end-to-end solution.

Custom

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  • Cloud-based POS + digital ordering + marketing, gift cards and loyalty.

  • Team management, payroll & scheduling.

  • xtraCHEF by Toast - Automated back-office management solutions.

Looking for payment flexibility?

Pay as a percentage of your sales over time with Toast Easy Pay**, or minimize upfront costs with the Starter Kit Pay-as-you-Go plan from $0/month***.

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Find the right products to power your restaurant

Everything you need to run your restaurant easily — all in one platform.

Toast Go 2

Speed up service and increase server tips by taking orders and payments right at the table, inside or outside.

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Toast Flex for Guest

Improve order accuracy and increase tips by giving guests visibility and prompts before their order is fired to the kitchen.

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Toast Mobile Order & Pay™

Let guests skip the line, order, and pay seamlessly, all while increasing revenue & tips for your team and collecting valuable guest data.

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Kitchen Display System

Eliminate bottlenecks by connecting your FOH and BOH. Automatically route orders to the right station and send notifications when food is ready.

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Kiosks

A seamless self-ordering experience that busts the line for you and texts guest when their order's ready. No old school buzzer needed.

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Online Ordering

Designed to grow your business online and turn first time guests into regulars with commission-free online ordering.

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Third Party delivery integrations

Reach more guests while reducing labor costs and order errors. No more double entry.

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Email Marketing

Set it and forget it — automated email campaigns target guest based on behavior to keep them coming back.

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Toast Loyalty

Turn first timers into regulars with an easy-to-use and fully integrated digital loyalty program.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Toast is built specifically for restaurants. Toast POS was ranked in 2021 as G2’s leading restaurant point of sale and restaurants using Toast's full point of sale platform outperformed their peers during the pandemic.
The upfront costs for Toast are hardware and implementation****, which vary depending on your specific hardware packages and installation needs. We have flexible payment options available, including payment as a percentage of your sales* or fixed monthly payment using our third-party financing partner. These solutions are not just for restaurants with great credit, they have no interest or fees, and our Easy Pay option has a 100% approval rate and no credit check. Within our Starter Kit, we also offer the Pay-as-You-Go plan that reduces your upfront hardware and installation costs through an all-in-one platform rate.
The most popular Toast products for QSRs include our Toast Flex for Guest, self-ordering kiosk and online ordering. All of the products on the Toast platform work seamlessly together – so you can spend less time troubleshooting and more time doing what you love.
Toast's New Restaurant Basics is ideal for new restaurants who want to get started with Toast and save money by bundling POS and Payroll, starting at $110 per month.

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[1] Based on a comparison of 2020-2021 gross sales among quick service restaurants on Toast and limited service restaurants nationally, as reported by the National Restaurant Association's State of the Restaurant Industry 2022. This is not intended as a direct comparison and restaurant populations and methodologies may vary.

[2] Disclosure: Toast has a direct relationship with G2 involving incentivizing reviews.
* Pricing applies to new customers and single locations only.
** Toast Easy Pay is a 180-day lease with an option to purchase. Toast will hold back 1.75% of your sales and any unpaid amount will be due at 180 days via ACH. Software is billed monthly.
*** Pay-as-you-Go pricing applies to new customers and single locations only. Plan is subject to a Platform Fee which is applied to each transaction and begins when customers start transacting. Plan is subject to a 2 year agreement.
****Includes installation, shipping, handling, and taxes.