Toast, Inc.

Toast was founded in Boston in 2011 as a software company entirely dedicated to the restaurant industry. From the outset, its goal has been to unify sales, payments, inventory, and staff management for businesses of every size, from small cafes to multi-location restaurant chains, on a single digital platform.

The company was built by closely observing restaurant operators' daily workflows. Its team developed a specialized hardware-software combination to solve, under one roof, problems like standing customer lines, broken receipt printers, and accounting systems that didn't talk to each other. Over the years, Toast evolved from a software vendor into a partner that provides core operational infrastructure for restaurants.

The Toast ecosystem consists of a broad product family that includes point-of-sale software, payment hardware, online ordering, delivery management, a reservation module, payroll, and analytics dashboards. From a single account, operators can track daily revenue, inventory movement, and staff performance across all their locations.

Toast is favored especially by mid-sized restaurants, cafe chains, bars and gastropubs, and multi-location brand concepts. Although US-based, its integration-first approach has served as an inspiration for restaurant operators worldwide.