Woodchipper
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Hope this is the right forum section. Wife and I had lunch at a local restaurant. The server had a remote scanning system that was marked Toast. Anyone heard of it?
New payment system?
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Drewby108
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I think that used to be called the Bread system, but the developers caught some heat for stuff, so it changed. They were caught buttering up some French investors.
(Not serious, just love puns)
(Not serious, just love puns)
Curly
Member
Crumby thing to say.
Woodchipper
Member
Drewby108, I guess they kneaded the dough.
walshjp17
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Toast has been around since about 2012. It is a payment system primarily focused on restaurants. They use several devices including table-side POS terminals.
GFHWoodWerks
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Thanks for the laugh. It had me laughing out loud, my girlfriend is like "what"!
sorcerertd
Member
One of my favorite places to order from recently changed their online ordering to use Toast. That also employs Grub-hub drivers instead of them using the in-house drivers that I knew. I liked it better before, but change is inevitable. Anyway, yeah, it's just a service that restaurants use to process payments that is apparently more reasonably priced than labor and upkeep of their own POS systems.
randyrls
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Lets see; I'm on my third credit card this year. Every time I get a fraudulent charge they give me a new card with a different number. Pain in the neck; I'm about to tell them if they give a new card I will charge them $100.00 for the INconvenience.
Woodchipper
Member
My CC is on the ball. They will call if there is a questionable charge. Never had a problem in over 30 years. They called when the spotted two ATM withdrawals out of state. We weren't in that town so they took care of it.
Example: Bought a dash camera and the people added a $39.95 memory card. "A supervisor will call within 24 hours." 48 hours and two calls, got nothing. Called the CC holder, gave them the phone number and got it deleted.
Aurelius
Member
If you're talking about the portable handheld thing that they bring to the table and can scan your credit card, then yes, most of the CC processing companies have one. I have Clover and the reader like you describe is about $800 if I remember correctly. Please keep in mind, while they look cool and can do all sorts of neat stuff, that means you have to configure it to do all that neat stuff. For me, the main reason I was looking at it was that the handheld terminal had a built in printer if I wanted to do paper receipts. Turns out I haven't needed to print a receipt yet and am perfectly happy with the little square pocket reader that was only $100.