Top 15% vertical AI efficiency trophy

Toast: #12 of 83 by ARR per employee

Toast is ranked #12 of 83 vertical AI companies on Vertical Velocity with $331K ARR per employee. The company is #3 in Other AI and is tracked as part of the vertical AI efficiency benchmark.

Company metrics

  1. Overall rank #12 of 83
  2. Category rank #3 in Other AI
  3. ARR per employee $331K/emp
  4. Estimated ARR $2.1B
  5. Headcount 6,500
  6. Headquarters Boston, MA

What the company does

Toast is an all-in-one restaurant management and point-of-sale platform covering ordering, payments, payroll, marketing, inventory, and back-office operations for food service businesses of all sizes. The platform serves restaurants, cafes, bars, and food trucks that need an integrated technology stack purpose-built for the hospitality industry rather than generic retail POS systems. Toast combines hardware terminals with cloud-based software to manage the full restaurant operation from front-of-house ordering to kitchen display systems and employee management. As a publicly traded company, Toast has become the dominant vertical SaaS platform in restaurants, processing tens of billions of dollars in gross payment volume annually and expanding into adjacent services like supply chain and lending.