Compare restaurant management systems side by side.
At a glance: bundled monthly cost
Bundled real-world monthly software cost for a typical single full-service location (POS + kitchen display + online ordering + loyalty stacked in), plus each vendor’s payment-processing model. Same data as the interactive tool below.
| Platform | Bundled software / month | Payment processing |
|---|---|---|
| FoodyOS | $149/mo | Your own Stripe — 2.9% + 30¢ |
| Toast | $249/mo | Toast Payments — 3.09% + 15¢ pay-as-you-go |
| Square for Restaurants | $145/mo | Square Payments — 3.3% + 30¢ online (base tier) |
| Clover | $307/mo | Clover-approved processor — ~3.5% + 10¢ blended |
| Lightspeed Restaurant | $255/mo | BYO Stripe — 2.9% + 30¢ |
| TouchBistro | $225/mo | BYO Stripe — 2.9% + 30¢ |
FoodyOS is a flat $149/mo with every module included and 0% platform commission on direct orders. Competitor figures reflect each vendor’s publicly published pricing as of June 2026, bundled to the equivalent module set. Use the interactive tool below to line up FoodyOS against any one competitor row by row, with a source link on each cell.
The three things to remember.
When a prospect is choosing between us and Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, or TouchBistro, these are the three angles that win — straight, defensible, no overstating.
The number is the number.
$149/mo per restaurant covers every module we ship today. Other vendors’ sticker prices look great until you add KDS, online ordering, and loyalty — then the bill more than doubles. Our flat fee is the bill. There’s no Phase 2 invoice waiting in the mail.
We don’t profit from your processing.
Toast, Square, and Clover make the bulk of their margin on resold payment processing — that’s why their sticker prices can be low. Our $149 is software-only. No per-order kickback, no opaque interchange-plus markup. The processor you choose is between you and them.
Month-to-month, BYO hardware.
Toast and Clover lock you into multi-year contracts plus their hardware. We don’t. If we stop earning your business this month, you cancel next month. Your iPads stay iPads — they don’t turn into paperweights when you switch.
Comparison FAQ
- “Square is free though.”
- Square’s free plan charges 2.6% + 15¢ in-person and 3.3% + 30¢ on online orders. On $50K/mo in card sales that’s ~$1,400+ in processing fees alone. KDS is a paid add-on ($30/device/mo on Plus) and Plus itself is $69/mo per location. By the time you’re running a real restaurant on Square, you’re paying ~$120–$170/mo before processing — and Square Payments is non-negotiable.
- “Toast already has my data.”
- We migrate it. Menu, modifiers, customer list, historical orders — comes over in onboarding. Most single-location switches finish inside a day. Toast keeps your data on their side too; it doesn’t evaporate just because you stopped paying them.
- “Multi-location is a hard requirement.”
- Today, FoodyOS is one restaurant per account. Native multi-location ownership (one login managing several restaurants with consolidated reporting) is on our roadmap. If you run 6+ locations and need that today, we’re not the right fit yet — and we’ll tell you that on the call.
- “What about the AI ordering you advertise on the home page?”
- The WhatsApp + AI ordering channel we ship in our LATAM and Brazil markets isn’t part of the $149 US plan. US operators have a different ordering culture; the US plan focuses on the branded ordering site + KDS + delivery dispatch. If your operation specifically wants AI ordering, we can scope a custom variant.
- Can I keep the iPads I already own?
- Yes — bring your own hardware. FoodyOS runs on the iPads and Android tablets you already have, so there’s no proprietary hardware to buy, and your devices stay yours if you ever switch away.
- How current are the competitor numbers?
- They reflect each vendor’s published pricing as of June 2026, and every row in the comparison table links to its source — the vendor’s own pricing page. We update the table when a vendor changes its published pricing.
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All competitor pricing reflects publicly disclosed terms as of June 2026, sourced from each vendor’s own pricing page. Specific deals vary — check the source URL on each row before quoting numbers in a contract negotiation.