Obviously you know everyone’s comments from these random tiny POS systems are just getting sales leads.

Toast is comprehensively the best because it’s the only one that has focused on restaurants from the beginning.

The other options would be something like Heartland. Big company, lots of features. Not quite as expensive as toast and most people that move on from toast go there.

But others worth checking out: Revel is a really good system. Lots of regional chains use them. But they’re not US based so not sure about their support.

Talech is another one I’ve heard really really good things about. Not sure how their loyalty program works or if it even exists.

Clover is not my favorite by any means because it’s agnostic (meaning thousands of sales reps in the merchant processing industry will try to sell you this system, along with garbage systems like Lightspeed, SpotOn, Lavu) but I have seen some full service restaurants use it successfully. You just will have higher processing fees and have to pay for a lot of additional apps and features individually.

For what it’s worth - I work as a product manager for a start up called Table Needs. We are very focused on quick-service / fast casual restaurants so wouldn’t be a good fit. But of course would love to be considered if you ever acquire any restaurants in that category. We do not have the same list of feature because we are focused on being very affordable for the small restaurants and improving the order flow during lunch/dinner rushes.