Why own your restaurant system instead of renting one?
Every restaurant system on the market is a subscription. It is generic by design, because it has to fit everyone. The feature you need waits on their roadmap. The price changes when they say. RestaKit gives you the same breadth of features, as a copy you own.
Renting a restaurant system: the real cost, from public filings.
Public filings, named analysts and trade press. No vendor blog statistics.
is how long Toast's own SEC filings say a subscription term generally runs, priced per location.
Toast 10-K filings, SEC full-text search ↗is how much SaaS vendors raised prices in a year, against IT budgets growing 2.8%, per Gartner's Jo Liversidge.
The Register, Sept 2025 ↗was the mandatory fee Toast added to every online order in July 2023, with no opt-out, withdrawn nine days later. The CEO: "We made the wrong decision."
Restaurant Business, Boston Globe, July 2023 ↗of developers use or plan to use AI coding tools. 46% distrust the output. That is why the core is sealed and every change is gated.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025 ↗Subscription versus owned copy, row by row.
RestaKit against Toast, Square, Lightspeed and seven more.
139 features across 14 areas, against the ten systems restaurants ask us about. If your current system has it, we have it or it is labelled coming soon. And with us, it is yours.
Bring your current contract.
Tell us what you pay and what you are waiting for. We show you the same features as a copy you own, set up on your menu.