Toast for Retail
Industry: Information Technology (IT) — Software Development and Financial Technology (FinTech)
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Founder/s: Steve Fredette, Aman Narang, Jonathan Grimm
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Company: Public
Founded: 2011
Services: Retail and restaurant POS systems, payment processing, inventory management, sales reporting, employee management, digital ordering, and customer loyalty solutions
Toast POS is an industry giant famously built from the ground up for food service. However, the company offers Toast Retail, an official expansion designed to provide a unified platform for hybrid hospitality-retail businesses.
If your business is a pure clothing boutique or hardware store, Toast is not the right fit—you should look at Lightspeed or Square Retail instead. But if you run a brewery selling merchandise, a cafe selling coffee beans, or a bakery selling branded apparel, Toast Retail bridges the gap by letting you manage kitchen operations and barcode-heavy merchandise on a single terminal network.
