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1. TOAST RESTAURANT UPGRADE
2. TOAST RESTAURANT FULL
3. TOAST RESTAURANT ANDROID
4. TOAST RESTAURANT SOFTWARE
5. TOAST RESTAURANT SERIES

TOAST RESTAURANT ANDROID

The funding was led by BVP partner Kent Bennett and general partner and Android co-founder Rich Miner.

TOAST RESTAURANT SERIES

In January 2016, Toast received $30 million in a round of Series B funding from Bessemer Venture Partners and GV, previously known as Google Ventures and an Alphabet company. In November, Toast released its first restaurant report, which analyzed the market for restaurant technology as well as restaurant owners’ challenges and preferred technology features. In August, Toast announced that they signed 1,000 customers in under two years, revealing 550% year-over-year growth. Comparato previously served as senior vice president of "customer success" at Acquia and senior vice president of "worldwide customer solutions" at Endeca. In early 2015, Toast announced Chris Comparato as its chief executive officer. In 2013, Toast received investments from several Boston executives, including former CEO of Endeca Steve Papa, who now serves as a board member for the company.

TOAST RESTAURANT UPGRADE

Two years later, the company signed over 1,000 merchants across the United States and grew to more than 120 employees, requiring the company to upgrade its space from 7,000 square feet in Cambridge to 40,000 square feet at the Hatch Fenway co-working space.

TOAST RESTAURANT FULL

The company pivoted to a full restaurant technology platform, with applications for POS, online ordering, gift cards, analytics and other features. The company concluded that restaurants had uses for a mobile platform beyond being able to accept payments using a phone or tablet. Grimm, Narang, and Fredette initially created a consumer app centered for mobile payments, customer loyalty, promotions, and social aspects that integrated with restaurants’ existing POS systems. After Endeca was acquired by Oracle in 2011, they left to start Toast.

TOAST RESTAURANT SOFTWARE

The focus has helped with its massive adoption, but it’s also proven as a detrimental weak spot as smaller restaurants struggle from closures as people stay inside to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic.Toast founders Steve Fredette, Aman Narang, and Jonathan Grimm met at software company Endeca after graduating from MIT in Cambridge, MA. The unicorn also largely focuses customer acquisition on independently-owned restaurants that need to keep up against big chains. Restaurants have always been in industry with high turnover and razor thin margins, so Toast wants to invest in tools to make the business more profitable as a whole. Its future plans, before COVID-19, included a $1 billion commitment to research and development to build more hardware and software for guest engagement and retention.

Toast has raised over $900 million in known venture capital, according to Crunchbase. In an interview with Crunchbase News in February, chief financial officer Tim Barash said that the company’s goal in the next few years is to go public. He noted that before the pandemic hit, Toast revenue grew 109% in 2019. “With limited visibility into how quickly the industry may recover, and facing slower than anticipated growth, we now find ourselves in the unenviable position of reducing our headcount,” he wrote. As a result, fintech companies that help restaurants work better and depend on foot traffic are seeing less transaction volume.Ĭomparato, in the blog post, cited how restaurant revenue broadly took a huge hit in March, which naturally trickled down to Toast’s operations. But restaurants have been hit hard as eateries were forced to close down due to state mandates, or to simply promote social distancing. Toast sits on the bridge between two industries in the spotlight, for better or worse, right now: restaurants and fintech. It also connects businesses to food delivery services like Grubhub. Think handheld ordering pads, self-service kiosks and display systems for kitchens. The company’s flagship product helps restaurants process payments and handle orders through a mix of hardware and software. It also reduced executive pay across the board, froze hiring, halted bonuses and pulled back offers. Toast reduced the size of its staff by 50% through layoffs and furloughs, according to a blog post from Toast’s CEO, Chris Comparato. Last valued at $5 billion, restaurant management platform Toast has joined the sweep of startups laying off employees due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.