Toast POS is a point of sale system that enables businesses to enhance staff efficiencies, reduce expenses, and improve customer experience. This solution can be used by bars, breweries, pizza chains, bakeries, coffee outlets, fine dining restaurants, and quick service restaurants. The app is compatible only with Android tablets and not with iPad as of now.

Toast POS provides menu management functionalities that include setting time-specific menu pricing such as happy hour menu, customizing menus separately for offline and online audiences, and setting up the entire menu including all groups and sub-groups. Its restaurant ordering feature enables you to split menu items and bills among customers, sends automatic alerts to the server when the order is ready, and provides the capability to take orders on the fly.

The system simplifies payments for business owners and clients by providing features like ‘pay at the table’, printing receipts or emailing them, and tipping servers directly from the tablets. Plus, customers can convert payments into loyalty points that they can redeem on subsequent visits. Toast POS also track real-time menu sales and offers in-depth reporting of product mix across all menus. Prominent customers of this software include Fresh City, Beach Hut Deli, Paris Creperie, and Lakewood Brewing Company.

Toast POS provides a subscription-based pricing model based on the core software and also offers add-on modules such as loyalty programs, online ordering, and physical and digital gift cards. The vendor also offers bundled hardware with a one-time pricing option.

Food servers can use this app to take orders directly with POS tablets and avoid running back and forth between kitchen, terminals, and the serving tables. The product’s interface is intuitive with features such as marking stock outs, changing interface layouts, and adding or removing menu items.

Customers can use the tablet’s interface to sign receipts, pay bills, and offer tip at their tables. Users can perform effortless customizations on the Toast POS interface. The app provides options to automate loyalty and discount program workflows, add role-based permissions, and customize the entire menu. It also sends daily email digests on vital parameters to enable restaurant owners to monitor staff performance on important metrics.

Servers working in restaurants with table service can take orders and easily process payments at the table using Toast’s handheld tablets. The Quick Order feature generates new orders quickly to facilitate fast transactions. Bars can browse drink recipes, track tabs, and improve their customer service.

With Toast POS, servers are likely to get fair tips as the system presents customers with fair tip percentages. Servers can split the bill easily by dragging and dropping each item on the relevant check. If needed, a check can be transferred to another server, or customers can be combined into one. The POS solution thus offers an easy method to support multiple check preferences. This helps servers to effortlessly accommodate the requirements and desires of each guest.

Toast POS Pricing Plans:

You can purchase one of the two hardware bundles priced as follows:

• Handheld Tablet bundle is priced at $450.
• Hardware bundle 10 inch display is available for $1350.

In addition, there are two monthly packages available:

Core Software – $100/month

• Sales, Labor and Menu Reports
• Customer Relationship Management
• Catering and Takeout Functionality
• Complete support 24/7
• Mobile technology for Point of Sales (POS)
• Software updates

Enterprise Software – by quote

• 360 Degree Analytics
• Centralized Management
• Labor Cost Percentage tracking
• Real time Sales monitoring
• All Core Software features