Shlomi Lavi /
Dec 28, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Restaurant Manager or Toast POS?
Restaurant Manager is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Toast POS, and Toast POS is rated higher (98/100) than Restaurant Manager (83/100). Restaurant Manager offers users more features (17) than Toast POS (0).
Looking for the right Restaurant POS solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:
Restaurant Manager Vs. Toast, Inc.
Restaurant Manager : Founded in 1987, ASI has focused exclusively on providing open architecture software solutions for Restaurant Manager™, its point of sale (POS) system to the food service and restaurant industry. In 1992, the demand for Restaurant Manager led ASI to develop a reseller network that now spans the United States and Canada. Over the next few years, the...
Toast, Inc.: Toast is an all-in-one restaurant management system.
We’re the partially brown, partially golden, never totally finished piece of toast. Our software is never going to be perfect in our minds. There will always be new features we can offer our customers, and a million ways we can continue to innovate and improve. We always strive to go above and b...
Who is more expensive? Restaurant Manager or Toast POS?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Restaurant POS software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Restaurant Manager and Toast POS.
Restaurant Manager price starts at $199 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 Restaurant Manager is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Restaurant POS software. Toast POS price starts at $165 per month , When comparing Toast POS to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Restaurant POS software cost.
Bottom line: Restaurant Manager cost is around the same cost of Toast POS.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Restaurant Manager Vs. Toast POS based on some of the most important and required Restaurant POS features.
Restaurant Manager: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Accounting Management, Bar Code Scanning, Consignment, Credit Card Processing, Customer History, Customer Management, Exchanges, Gift Cards.
Toast POS: We are still working to collect the list of features for Toast POS.
Target customer size
This software is ideal for startup, small, medium and large scale businesses as it is both powerful and scalable. The typical individuals of Salute POS are the business owners in the small company classification (10-200 employees) as well as medium-sized (500 to 1,000) in the service market fields requiring IT, data handling and also hosting as well as other related solutions, particularly the area of restaurants/food services and POS.