When selecting a restaurant POS system for your restaurant, here are the most important criteria to consider:

• Credit card payment processing

• Front-of-house management

• Menu and inventory management

• Analytics and sales reporting

• Scheduling and employee management

• Integrations

• Contactless ordering and QR code

• Online ordering and delivery services

• Email marketing and guest profile data

• Hardware options, whether Android or iPad

• Card reader for mobile handheld

• Table management and reservations

• Customer support

The most common criteria when consumers evaluate their restaurant POS system purchase are a combination of the following factors: hardware, software, payments, support and cost. Depending on how consumers weigh these criteria combined with the specific demands of their restaurant help to determine which restaurant POS system is best for their operation. Toast was designed specifically for restaurants to offer a best-in class experience for each. Toast software includes point of sale, payroll, scheduling to name a few. Toast hardware includes the point of sale terminal, but also the Toast Go handheld device. Toast payments are designed to be competitive and compatible with restaurant business. Toast customer support understands the stress of a restaurant and is available 24/7.

Toast hardware options span both front of house and back of house, to ensure the whole restaurant runs in sync. In the front of the house the most common Toast hardware options are the point of sale terminal, the Toast Go handheld device and the self ordering kiosk. Regardless of your specific restaurant operation Toast has the front of house hardware to run your business. In the back of the house, hardware options like kitchen display systems are connected to orders from the front of the house and are a great way for technology to keep the kitchen running smoothly.

Toast software is designed to enable every part of a restaurant’s business to run more efficiently. Software for operations and sales includes point of sale, online ordering, email marketing and sales reporting. Software for employee management includes payroll and scheduling, which is also centralized in the point of sale system.

Beyond payments and software Toast also offers benefits such as Toast Capital to restaurants. Toast Capital is a restaurant loans product for Toast customers that allows Toast to finance loans and help restaurants with a loan, which they can use to grow their business. Features like Toast Capital are outside of the restaurant POS offerings, but help restaurants grow in a different way.