About TouchBistro
TouchBistro POS is a fast, reliable, and easy-to-use restaurant management platform. Every feature has been built to specifically address the needs of restaurateurs looking to understand and control their costs, while finding opportunities to streamline and simplify operations. TouchBistro POS is loaded with valuable restaurant-centric technology to help increase sales, deliver a great guest experience, and save restaurants time and money.
Whether you’re full-service or quick-service, TouchBistro helps to increase sales, improve service, and make better business decisions. Manage tableside orders, floor plans & tables, mobile payment processing, staff & scheduling, iPad menu management, inventory management and loyalty right from the iPad. Plus, access reporting & analytics in the cloud from anywhere, at anytime.
Pricing starting from:
US$69,00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of TouchBistro
? TouchBistro’s Tableside Ordering is designed to help staff fulfill orders faster and more accurately while upselling high-margin menu items or modifiers. Features like one-touch bill splitting, personalizable menu display modes, and one-swipe seat joining let your servers focus on the customer.
? TouchBistro’s table and floor plan management features allow you to accurately layout your business’s floor plan in your point of sale. Take orders, transfer customers, and manage your floor with a visual interface that allows you to improve service.
? Take credit, debit, and cash payments wherever you are. TouchBistro simplifies payment with multiple credit card payment processor and EMV-compliant device options, as well as robust support for non-integrated payments and traditional cash drawers.
? TouchBistro has been designed for and by restaurant service staff, with features and customization options to tailor your menus specifically to the way you run your restaurant, so you can improve service times and increase sales.
? TouchBistro has a ton of features designed to make it easier for you to keep your staff moving, keep them honest, and reduce the overhead necessary to schedule, track, measure, and enable their success.
? TouchBistro allows you to take care of your top customers with tools for managing customer accounts, remembering and rewarding your key clientele, running accounts, and personalizing service.
? TouchBistro’s Inventory Management features help you keep track of what you have in inventory at your restaurant. TouchBistro’s approach ensures you can quickly and easily know what’s going on with your products without formulas and spreadsheets.
? TouchBistro’s comprehensive reporting allows you to make better business decisions with dozens of different and critical reports available right on the iPad or on any device, anytime, anywhere through the cloud portal.
? TouchBistro’s support has won multiple customer service awards with a team built up of former and current restaurant servers, owners, and managers. TouchBistro combines industry knowledge with support tools to offer support 24/7, 365 days a year.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Markets
Canada, United States
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$69,00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of TouchBistro: 64
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- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Well programmed with very few bugs. Easy to use.
Reviewed on 2017/12/07
Pros
I really like the features it offers especially now that recipe costing has been added. Splitting checks is a breeze.
Cons
Having to check every item to put a discount on the entire check. Slows things down a lot when in a hurry.
Response from TouchBistro
Hey, Chris!
Thanks so much for your review. Very happy to hear you're finding TouchBistro easy to use and well programmed. I'll be sure to let our development team know.
If there's anything I can do to make your experience even better, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Easy to use, intuitive with excellent stats and dashboard.
Reviewed on 2017/03/31
After researching the market for new POS system for my newly established Cafe/Bar I found Touch...
After researching the market for new POS system for my newly established Cafe/Bar I found Touch Bistro to be superior to many products in the market. It is cost effective, easy to use, doesn't require specialized equipment (Only Ipad, printer and cash till), easy to install and learn on your own and requires minimum training for new staff. One of the most important feature that many other POS don't provide is the dashboard and cloud reporting. I rely heavily on these data to manage my business effectively and efficiently. It provides a breakdown of sales performance over any period of time, connects to my accounting system and load sales data directly into my accounting system, has excellent integration with 3rd party apps such as 7Shifts for scheduling and Shogo for accounting. I'm truly impressed with this product and it's robustness. I have recommended the product to many other business owners and I always get the same reaction of amazement when they see the reporting it provides compared to the POS systems they currently use.
Pros
Dashboard and cloud reporting. ease of use.
Cons
Technical support seems to be overwhelmed and you can rarely connect with them when you need them most. They try to get back to you within 24 hours, but in most cases that's too long and have significant impact on our business.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
A Big Steaming Pile o'POS!!
Reviewed on 2021/03/24
Their tech support is a joke, it takes all day to get a hold of someone, unless of course they have...
Their tech support is a joke, it takes all day to get a hold of someone, unless of course they have just rolled out an update that is writhe with errors, then it may take as much as two days to get through to their support. It's really fun when a pos- pos update makes your visa service go out for an entire day. This company is in way to far over their heads. The system is not reliable and neither is their tech support. I just called and 24/7 tech support means someone who knows NOTHING answers the phone and tells you to call back the next day or go on your tablet and submit X to data support team tomorrow. You must have gotten paid for this review. You obviously have not experienced the product first hand!!!
The worst part is my complaints and problems got escalated to [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] told me he would work to get me out of this system and out of my 2 year visa contract with Chase. I started talking to him in January and he has now ghosted me. No contact, no follow through. It's going to the lawyers now.
Pros
I thought this would have a better interface than what I had been using. And while it is a little sexier and the touchscreen is handy, but those small benefits our out weighed by the other problems with their lack of competent support and other functionality.
Cons
The biggest problem is that they oversold and under delivered. They told me that all my current printers would work with their requirements. Opps get ready to go live, go live and then find out you have to purchase a $350 printer bc your visa printer isn't "actually compatible" after all. Print all of your visa slips to a boh printer and run to the kitchen to retrieve them for a week while the new printer arrives- so much fun!!! They didn't explain that each device must have it's own Moby Visa device, no problem, that's only about $200+ to get another one of those. Sales person sold me on how they set up your menu, oh not that costs $800, even the promotional video they sent says the same thing.
It is not reliable, there are constant glitches in the system. They roll out updates with out thoroughly testing them. I'm not paying them $120 per month to be QA for their shitty updates. The interface with the Mobi CC machine from Chase it completely intermittent. For at least half the transactions of the day, you have to send the info to the machine twice bc it automatically craps out an error on you. During one painful update, the system stopped communicating our visa terminals altogether. Really fun to ask customer if I can write down their info and run it later, that didn't make us look ghetto or anything.
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Toast POSReasons for Choosing TouchBistro
Because the Sapphire system was not very user friendly and had limitations that we were constantly trying to work around. It looks like an old dos program from 1999, for the most part.Reasons for Switching to TouchBistro
They start up cost was supposed to be much cheaper.- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Best decision ever
Reviewed on 2017/04/04
We embraced touch bistro over 3 yrs ago in that time they have continued to upgrade and make it...
We embraced touch bistro over 3 yrs ago in that time they have continued to upgrade and make it better and better. That said the only down side is as technology changes so does your need for newer faster iPads and that is something we did not budget for.
I would never go back to a stand alone POS
Just remember that if you make the jump to tableside ordering wirelessly you will be amazed at how much faster your table
Turns are and effective your servers become . Less staff required because they carry the POS with them no lines at a station. Smoother flow in kitchen
Just take .25 per bill
And put it in a gotta get newer IPad fund and you'll be happier then you have ever been
Bill Justus
Owner chef EKs Grill Kelowna BC
Pros
Just about everything
Cons
Cash layout for required new iPads to retain full functionality
Response from TouchBistro
Hey, Bill!
Thanks so much for your review. Very happy to hear you say TouchBistro was the best decision ever. We couldn't ask for anything more!
If there's anything I can do to make your experience even better, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
- Industry: Food & Beverages
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
I Doubt There's Better
Reviewed on 2018/06/08
Pros
TouchBistro has been an amazing tool for our cafe. I love the ease of use, how easily we are able to get an overview of the cafe at any one time, along with performance, financial reporting, and all the rest. We keep discovering new features that allow us to be more and more accurate and efficient behind the counter. Support is also always really helpful and available whenever we need them!
Cons
Some of the features seem weirdly incomplete, like reporting having some types of reports available and not others. Also, we have had to source a secondary POS system to use for our retail inventory, as despite having the capability for things like barcode scanning, there is no way to quickly or easily update our inventory--with a stocklist of over 2000 items, having to create each item individually and update them manually is too much of a headache to bother with.
TouchBistro FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for TouchBistro.Q. What type of pricing plans does TouchBistro offer?
TouchBistro offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$69,00/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
• Solo (1 User License) - $69 per month • Dual (2 User Licenses) - $129 per month • Team (Upto 5 User Licenses) - $249 per month • Unlimited (Unlimited User Licenses) - $399 per month
Q. Who are the typical users of TouchBistro?
TouchBistro has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000
Q. What languages does TouchBistro support?
TouchBistro supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does TouchBistro support mobile devices?
TouchBistro supports the following devices:
iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does TouchBistro integrate with?
TouchBistro integrates with the following applications:
7shifts, Craftable, Deliverect, EVO Payments, MarginEdge, Marketman, Optimum Control, Ordermark, PayPal, Push Operations, QuickBooks Online Advanced, Sage Intacct, Square Point of Sale, Square for Retail, TSYS, WISK.ai, Worldpay, Xero
Q. What level of support does TouchBistro offer?
TouchBistro offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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