$595 a month. One bill. Everything a restaurant runs.

Per location. Never a share of what you sell.

$595 a month, per location, for all twenty-one applications a restaurant runs 1. The restaurant below pays $3,556 a month to nine vendors for some of them.

One restaurant's whole software bill, line by line

One store this size: $150,000 a month, 6,000 covers, twenty-five people 7.

What you need	Who you would buy it from	Per month
Point of sale and add-ons	Toast	$1,040 2
Reservations and covers	OpenTable	$899 4
Online ordering, loyalty, marketing	Owner, an ordering company	$499 8
Accounting and close	Restaurant365	$469 5
Back office, inventory, invoices	MarginEdge	$350
Recipes and menu costing	Apicbase	$149 5
Hiring and onboarding	Harri	$70 5
Workforce	Fourth	$40 5
Scheduling and labor	7shifts	$40 3
Nine bills, nine logins	priced low, not high 5	$3,556
Handsplease	One bill, all twenty-one applications 1	$595

$42,672 a year against $7,140. 6

Four of those nine print no price on their pricing page. Each carries the lowest figure published or reported.

What $595 includes

Every one of the twenty-one applications, at every size. No feature gating, no seat count, no per-invoice charge.

One price, per location, per month

Larger restaurants pay more, and the rule is the same for everyone: flat, per location, set from last year's sales.

One bill and one login

Instead of nine of each.

Documents are not metered

Send us every invoice. The price does not move.

More than one location

Each location is priced on its own sales, never on the group's. Five to nine locations get 10% off, ten to twenty-four get 18%, and from twenty-five we quote.

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Three jobs nobody in that stack sells you, at any price

The first
The supplier contract

What you agreed to pay, checked when the order is approved.
The second
The life of a piece of equipment

What it cost, and when it stops being worth repairing.
The third
Guest order to plate cost

What a guest ordered, joined to what it cost.

Where every figure came from

1. The twenty-one applications are the whole of what it takes to run a restaurant: Transaction and POS, Guest and CRM, Kitchen and Service Ops, First-Party Ordering, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Bar and Beverage, Retail, Production, Inventory, Menu and Pricing, Demand Forecast, Labor, Supplier Contract, Catering and Events, Lifecycle, Financial Close, Channel Economics, Compliance and Reporting, HR and Equipment, with Identity and Access under all of them. Every one of them is in the price. There is no tier that holds one back and nothing on that list is an add-on. What it does walks through them.
2. Toast publishes no price for the tier that spans the back office; that card says Custom pricing. So this figure is derived and the arithmetic is here to be argued with. Toast's FY2025 Form 10-K reports about $2,047 million of annual recurring revenue across roughly 164,000 locations. $2,047m ÷ 164,000 ÷ 12 = $1,040, already net of what the card networks take. Both inputs are theirs; the division is ours. Card processing sits inside it, so it is not counted twice. It is what Toast collects from one location across everything it sells it, add-ons included, so Toast is one row here.
3. 7shifts Essentials, $39.99, per location, up to 30 employees. At twenty-five people it fits. Above thirty it is $79.99 and above sixty it is $134.99.
4. OpenTable charges a subscription and then a fee per cover, so it needs the volume. $150,000 a month at a $25 average check is 6,000 covers. On the Core plan, $299 a month plus $1 per network cover. Taking a tenth of covers as network bookings, $299 + 600 = $899. All three are assumptions and all three are here to be argued with. A lower average check makes this worse, not better: at $20 it is 7,500 covers and $1,049.
5. None of these four prints a price on its pricing page. Restaurant365 states Essential at $469 a location on its own blog. For the other three, each figure is what a third party reports: Apicbase from $149 a month (GetApp and SoftwareSuggest), Harri's Silver plan at $70 (Software Finder), Fourth's HotSchedules at about $40 a location (SelectHub), September 2026. We used the lowest figure in every range, so the total is a floor. You cannot reach a smaller number than this one, only a bigger one.
6. Our own pricing work builds a store this size lower than $3,556, and we would rather print both than pick the flattering one. Nearly all of the difference is two lines. Toast: this table takes $1,040 from Toast's own filing, because Toast will not publish the tier that covers the back office; the other build adds up Toast's published add-ons to $485. OpenTable: this table includes the per-cover fees, $899; the other build takes the subscription alone, $299. The rest of the two builds comes to $1,118 here and $1,108 there. The ninth line, Owner at $499, stands where the other build uses Toast's own ordering and loyalty add-ons at $200. Both are real bills somebody pays.
7. $150,000 a month is $1.8m a year. The stack above takes 2.4% of everything this store sells. Our entry price takes 0.40%. On the National Restaurant Association's own numbers, $1.5 trillion across more than a million outlets, the average American restaurant is smaller than this one at about $1.5m a year, which makes both shares larger rather than smaller.
8. Owner, an ordering company, publishes two plans: $249 a month plus 5% of every order, or $499 a month flat, and recommends the flat plan above $5,000 a month in online sales. At exactly $5,000 the two cost the same: $249 + 5% × $5,000 = $499. Any store doing more than 3.3% of its $150,000 online is on the flat plan by Owner's own advice. On both plans, in Owner's words, guests pay a 5% order support fee that covers fulfillment and customer service. That is on your customer's check rather than your invoice, and it is not in this table. Toast publishes its own ordering and loyalty add-ons at $75 and $125. A store on Owner buys neither, and Toast's $1,040 is an average across every store it serves, so some of that $200 may already sit inside it. Take all $200 out and this bill is still $3,356. Owner's own pricing page, September 2026.
9. Each count is what the vendor runs itself, at any price, against the same twenty-one applications. Toast's own base plan covers one of them; the other nine are Toast products sold separately, and its 2026 releases added AI actions for guests and marketing, with scheduling and payroll named as coming. MarginEdge's six are its standard plan's five and its bar add-on. Crunchtime, Restaurant365 and Qu print no price on their pricing pages, so theirs come from their own product lists, and Owner's from the list its pricing page says every plan includes. Counted September 2026.

Everyone says all-in-one. Here is the count

Of the twenty-one applications, how many each vendor runs itself.

ToastOperating system 10

CrunchtimeOperating system 9

Restaurant365All-in-one 7

MarginEdgeAll-in-one 6

QuIntelligent commerce platform 5

MarketManAll-in-one 3

Owner (ordering)Complete platform 3

HandspleaseWrites down the week in between 21

The best of them runs ten of the twenty-one 9.

We went to read their prices

Crunchtime, Craftable, Ottimate, QuNo pricing page a buyer can find. Vendors' own sites, September 2026.
OpenTableIts Core Plan page, titled Core Plan - Pricing & Features, carries no price. The prices sit on a different page: $299 a month, and $1 for each guest who books through OpenTable. Vendor's own pages, September 2026.
ToastTwo figures, both Starting at, and Custom pricing for the tier that covers the back office. Vendor's own pricing page, September 2026.
Owner (ordering)The commission did not go away. It moved to your customer's check. Vendor's own pricing page, September 2026.

HereNothing we charge is a percentage of anything, and nothing is added to your guest's check.
The seven that do publishNot one explains how it arrived at its figure. Seven vendors' own pricing pages, September 2026.

A price you cannot check is a price you have to negotiate.

How the price works

Flat, per location, per month

Same bill in a good month and a bad one. Set from last year's sales and held for the year.

Never a share of what you sell

Go from two million a year to four and your card fees roughly double. A flat fee does not move with your sales during the year.

Your card money never touches us

You are the merchant of record. Nothing we charge comes out of a card payment.

Be wary of anyone who offers you back 2.58 percent

About 200 basis points is interchange, owed to the card networks and the banks, whoever processes your cards. Nobody can give that back. A platform keeps roughly 58 basis points.

From Toast's FY2025 filing: $5,037 million of financial technology revenue and $3,891 million of its cost, over $195.1 billion of card volume.

Every competitor figure here comes from that vendor's own pages or filings, September 2026, except three in note 5, which a third party reports.

One rule, printed: flat, per location, set from last year's sales.

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