BOSTON—Toast, the fastest-growing restaurant management platform in the U.S., announced Toast Go™, a fully integrated handheld point of sale system designed and built for restaurants, is a finalist in the 2019 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards, the company said in a statement. Winners will be announced on March 11, 2019.
The Company has also been named a market leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Point-of-Sale Software in Quick-Service Restaurants 2018 Vendor Assessment.
“A win for Toast is a win for our entire Toast Community,” said Aman Narang, president and co-founder of Toast. “We are pleased to celebrate the exciting recognitions from the IDC MarketScape, SXSW, and others, alongside our customers. In turn, we’re thrilled to recognize the amazing accomplishments of the Toast Community from the past year with our second annual Toasty Awards, an opportunity to honor the hard work and ingenuity of the Toast restaurant community.”
In addition to recognition from the IDC MarketScape and SXSW, Toast was honored with additional acknowledgments from:
Best in Biz Awards: Toast Go received “gold” level recognition in the “Best Product of the Year – SMB” category. The Best in Biz Awards are the only independent business awards program judged each year by prominent editors and reporters from top-tier publications in North America.
New York Design Awards: Toast received “silver” level recognition in the “Digital – Food & Drink” category. The New York Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
G2 Leader – Winter 2019: Toast has been identified as one of the best restaurant POS/restaurant management software and services companies via G2 Crowd, a peer-to-peer, business solutions review platform. The rating is based on Toast’s high levels of customer satisfaction and the likelihood that real G2 Crowd users will recommend the software and services to others.
Launched in 2013, Toast powers successful restaurants of all sizes with a technology platform that combines restaurant POS, front of house, back of house and guest-facing technology with a diverse marketplace of third-party applications. (IANS)