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pos.toasttab.com is the company blog at pos.toasttab.com, writing about business. Since 2018, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Toast Delivery Services”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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24mentions?
23HN people?
2018–2026first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link pos.toasttab.com for Toast's restaurant point-of-sale product pages, such as mobile order and pay and delivery, and for its restaurant industry data blog. Comments also cite Toast job postings.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2019-10-02
- /products/online-ordering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-05-06
- Toast Delivery Services2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-24
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-25
- /products/mobile-order-and-pay2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-10-30
What Hacker News says?
ChowNow https://get.chownow.com/demo/ and Toast https://pos.toasttab.com/ do that
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on “Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage”Submitted Restaurant Management Books All Restaurateurs Should Read as a story · 3 points
HN discussion>(do you know what NYC was like in the 90's? It's not some distant history) I do. And today is light years better than it was in the 90s. In fact, there were crack dealers on my corner in the 90s. They're not there any more. Or on 95th street and Amsterdam. And there aren't any hookers on 90th street and Broadway or 58th and Sixth like there were in the 80s. And I didn't know Verdi Park was called "Verdi Park" back…
Comment linking /blog/on-the-line/cost-to-open-a-supermarket
on “Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race”Submitted Toast Delivery Services as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Do people actually pay through a QR code through a sticker on the table though? I've never seen that nor would I ever do such a thing, because yeah that's obvious. Yes, that's what I'm referring to. https://pos.toasttab.com/products/mobile-order-and-pay https://get.chownow.com/blog/restaurant-qr-code/
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on ““It works better in the app””> you'd have to double prices before I changed my consumption of locally produced services other than uber much at all. So you’d pay $26 per cocktail and $68 for a pork chop, but $15 is too expensive for an Uber. I find that hard to believe. Even if true, you are not representative of SF consumers. A Harvard study notes, “higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. Higher minimum wages also red…
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on “Stripe to donate $1M to California Yimby”I think the leading implementation is Toast Tab at least in the Bay. I really like it and hope it becomes more prominent. https://pos.toasttab.com/products/mobile-order-and-pay >With Toast Mobile Order & Pay™, guests can easily scan a QR code to browse the menu, order, and pay, all from their mobile device. Plus with Apple Pay, guests can pay in less than 10 seconds.
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on “The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus”I've had similar really good experiences, but it's probably just luck. The last place I went to they used https://pos.toasttab.com/ . It was quick, easy, everyone at the table was able to pay for their own food without having to worry about dividing up the bill, it was easy to order additional items without having to wait for the waiter to come around, etc. And, fwiw, it didn't seem to affect the social aspect of my…
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on “Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible”In my neighborhood in NYC, restaurants are getting much more vocal about the commission rate. We used to be pretty exclusive seamless users in my house until we got a letter in one of our bags that roughly read: "thank you for your order. Especially with the decrease in volume during these times of crisis, the grubhub commission makes it hard for us to stay in business. please consider ordering direct to support you…
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on “Uber is laying off 3,700, as rides plummet due to Covid-19”I always try to go the website. But I think adding some murk is that some restaurants use third party order systems like by door dash via the generic: https://order.online/en-US/ For example this is a doordash site (set up by the restaurant): https://order.online/business/-54797/en-US A restaurant tried to call me about an order, but coming from a toll free number I ignored it. I asked them why they didn't have a lo…
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on “Google “hijacked millions of customers and orders” from restaurants – lawsuit”Toast | Boston • Chicago • Dublin | https://pos.toasttab.com/ Toast builds hardware and software for restaurants. We're looking for engineers of all types. Hardware. Software. IOS. Web. Android. You name it, we're looking for it. Check out our careers page ( https://careers.toasttab.com/ ), and if you're interested, send me an email at sjbtoast@gmail.com.
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Toast | Software Engineer | Database Engineer | Chicago, Boston, Dublin | VISA | ONSITE | https://pos.toasttab.com/ Toast builds hardware and software for restaurants. We are expanding rapidly, and we are hiring a lot of engineers of all types. Android, Web, iOS, Java, .Net, Javascript, React, Redux, Kotlin, Apache, Kafka, SQL, Node - there is something for everyone. On a personal note I have been working with the c…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2019)”Toast | Software Engineer | Database Engineer | Chicago, Boston, Dublin | https://pos.toasttab.com/ Toast builds hardware and software for restaurants. We are expanding rapidly and hiring a lot of engineers. We're working with Android, Web, iOS, Java, .Net, Javascript, React, Redux, Kotlin, Apache, Kafka, SQL, Node, and more. If you are interested, please email me your resume at sjbtoast@gmail.com
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”> I know that there are other companies trying to be a middle man in this way. It’s going to get rid of even more of Door Dash’s profits And this is the unwritten prelude to how Snowcrash happened and the mob got involved in food delivery. I can already envision Uncle Enzo capitalizing on his new venture. But seriously. has anyone actually seen or know anyone who has used Caviar? Dorsey sold it to Doordash a while b…
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on “America is stuck at home, but food-delivery companies still struggle to profit”I think that's right. It's like the endless examples around finding restaurants and making reservations, seemingly as common a problem in AI demos as stain removal is in daytime TV ads. But it's a problem that even Toast, which makes restaurant software, says most people just don't regularly have ( https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/data/restaurant-wait-times-and... ). Most people either never make restaurant reservation…
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on “Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed”>...Actually labour is like $0.15 cents of it Where are you getting that number from? >...A fast-food restaurant could typically run labor costs around 25% while a full service restaurant could run about 30-40% of revenue depending on how up scale the bar or restaurant is and the demand needed. https://academy.getbackbar.com/average-restaurant-costs-liqu... >... you want a hamburger to cost $50?!?! No one is claimin…
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on “Cargo Is Piling Up Everywhere, and It's Making Inflation Worse”ChowNow charges a fixed fee (not sure what it is, I read somewhere that it's between $99-$150/month). For deliveries, I believe they outsource. Wix Restaurants is a fixed fee too -- but it's more like an augmentation to an existing Wix website I believe. They don't own a delivery fleet, so the restaurant has to hire its own drivers (which high-volume restaurants are not averse to doing). I tried ordering from a Wix…
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on “Restaurants rebel against delivery apps as cities crack down on fees”3-5% is the average profit margin for a restaurant. Also, the profit for the franchise owner is not the same as the total profit. McDonalds as a corporation is charging the franchisee licensing fees (and often rent as well), which should also be considered part of the profit. Source: https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/average-restaurant-profit-marg...
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on “McNugget Calculator”Price of hamburgers also at an all time high: https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/data/burger-prices Conclude from that what you will. Personally the cost to keep myself alive relative to the amount I'm making is more interesting than shiny metals.
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on “Silver trades to $50 an ounce”If that doesn't work, another option may be to link the video to the publisher of the song and provide the city/department name. I am not a lawyer, but hopefully one will chime in that is an expert on media content laws. Some publishers take public broadcasting of their works very seriously. Public broadcasting in this case is not just Youtube, but also the police officer playing for the audience in a public setting…
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on “Why are so many cops blasting music while being filmed? [video]”Used them recently for brunch. Super easy, scan the receipt, and go. They seem to have ignored a few sacred truths. They scaled more slowly, raised capital less aggressively, and shockingly have real human customer support. This is the interesting bit: https://pos.toasttab.com/products/toast-delivery-services Get started for free* and pay one flat fee per order, not a percent of sales. Their own driver network for d…
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on “Toast built a $30B business by defying Silicon Valley”One of the few cloud-based solutions to get this bit right[1]: "Always available - 24/7 support, top-tier reliability, and full offline mode keep your restaurant moving." Does anyone know if Toast also enables downloading/backing up critical data in a parsable format in case something were to happen to them/your account/etc.? [1] https://pos.toasttab.com
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on “Toast built a $30B business by defying Silicon Valley”I had to Google it, too. https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/kitchen-appreciati...
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on “Ending Junk Fees, the Most Annoying Thing in American Commerce”Most people don't like to cook or don't care enough to do it themselves. The average household spends an inordinate amount on takeout and that figure will only grow [1]. One could argue 'dark kitchens' are dystopian... food prepared by chefs emulating the menus of restaurants with which they have no affiliation. This has become common in cities all over the world. Deliveroo's dark kitchen network started off using r…
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on “Robotic Kitchen Automation Levels”
