Toast POS for Casual Dining

Q: Is the Toast POS system right for new casual dining restaurants?

Toast's Essentials package is ideal for new fine dining restaurants who want to get the most out of Toast from the start by connecting their FOH and BOH with Toast POS, Handhelds, and Toast KDS.

Keep your service flowing smoothly, turn more tables, and cut out the bottlenecks with a casual dining POS built to help boost average spend and keep your regulars coming back for seconds.

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Streamline operations for seamless, efficient service

From front of house to back of house, Toast POS brings everything together to help your restaurant run like clockwork. Keep communication clear, orders accurate, and service moving smoothly—all with one system designed for busy UK restaurants.

Give servers and guests more control

Empower your team to take and send orders directly from the table with Toast’s all-in-one handheld POS—helping keep service quick and accurate.
Delight your guests with a smooth, modern checkout experience using Mobile Payments and Digital Menus, both included with Toast POS.
Keep your staff in the loop with real-time updates from the Toast Kitchen Display System (KDS), sent straight to their handhelds so everyone stays perfectly in sync.

Boost upsells and revenue while reducing comps and voids with Toast Mobile Order & Pay™

Give your guests the freedom to order when they’re ready—quickly, accurately, and without the wait.
With your full menu right at their fingertips, guests can easily add extra toppings, sides, or another round of drinks, helping to naturally increase spend per table.
And with convenient payment options like Apple Pay and Google Pay, guests can settle the bill in under 10 seconds—keeping service speedy and satisfaction high.

Discover back office bliss

Access real-time sales, menu, and labour data to keep tabs on your restaurant’s performance—no matter where you are.
Optimise your menu with detailed insights from in-depth product mix and modifier reports, helping you spot what’s selling and where there’s room to improve.
Easily mark items as in or out of stock so your team can keep guests informed and manage shortages on the fly, keeping operations running smoothly from open to close.

Built for restaurants, by restaurant people

Run your business with confidence knowing Toast is designed and supported by people who know the restaurant world inside and out—here to help you every step of the way.

Reliable through every rush

Beautifully designed hardware that's built to stand up to restaurant life.
Hardwired connections and offline mode to keep service up and running.
POS that’s intuitively designed and built specifically for restaurants so it’s easy to learn and use.

Built for your entire business

Payments, Reporting, POS with tableside ordering & KDS all in one.
Technology that connects your front of house, back of house and everything in between.
Robust partner integrations seamlessly integrate other best-in-class restaurant technology.

Customisable onboarding & 24/7/365 support

Make switching easy with our tailored onboarding packages designed to meet your installation & training needs, on your time and in your way.
Choose your preferred way to get help, whether live or self-serve.
Connect with a trusted community to learn from and share with your peers.

Solutions built for every budget

Simple & fast set-up

Flexible payment options

Offline mode

24/7/365 reliability

Starter

Ideal for restaurants who want to get up and running on a POS with streamlined ordering & integrated payments.

Starting at

£80/month*per month*

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Cloud-based point of sale with robust restaurant features
Advanced real-time reporting
Payment processing integrated with POS
Hardware configuration, installation, and go-live support
Optional add-ons: kitchen display system, handhelds, gift cards, integrations, etc.

Essentials

Ideal for restaurants who want to scale their operations from day one with streamlined ordering, integrated payments, and an interconnected FOH and BOH.

Starting at

£150/monthper month

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Cloud-based point of sale with robust restaurant features and optional guest display.
Advanced real-time reporting
Payment processing integrated with POS
Hardware configuration, installation, and go-live support
Kitchen display system
All-in-one Handheld POS
Optional add-ons: additional hardware, gift cards, integrations, etc.

Custom Quote

Not finding what you’re looking for? Get a custom quote for any number of devices and a customized package built to fit your needs.

Custom Quote

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Cloud-based point of sale
Integrations with the most popular restaurant software
Custom hardware configuration

Find the right products to power your restaurant

Everything you need to run your restaurant easily -- all in one platform.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Toast POS System right for my casual dining concept?

Toast is built specifically for restaurants, bars, and lounges. Toast POS was ranked 2021 as G2's leading restaurant point of sale.²

What are the most popular features of Toast POS for fine dining restaurants?

Toast POS and Toast KDS are two of the most popular products for casual dining restaurants because they help keep FOH and BOH teams in sync. Key features that really stand out to fine dining restaurants include the ability to 86 items from any device, in real time, robust course firing options, ranging from automated, based on fulfilment status and prep time, to fully server led where servers can hold and send individual items as needed.

Is the Toast POS system right for new casual dining restaurants?

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This page was last updated on: 8 April 2026

1. Based on self reported results from 2023 comparing restaurant performance after switching to Toast with historical averages from performance when using their prior POS system. Does not account for confounding factors. Actual results will depend on several factors and individual results will vary.

2. Toast has a direct relationship with G2 involving incentivising reviews.