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

Top 5 alternatives to TouchBistro

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TouchBistro Software - TouchBisto alows users to generate customized end of the day reporting
TouchBistro Software - TouchBisto alows users to generate email based or physical copy of the bills
TouchBistro Software - TouchBisto alows users to monitor venues in real-time
TouchBistro Software - TouchBisto alows users to split bills at a single touch
TouchBistro Software - TouchBisto enables users to create custom floor layouts
TouchBistro Software - TouchBisto offer inventory tracking and sounds alerts for replenishments
TouchBistro Software - TouchBistro rewards
TouchBistro Software - TouchBistro inventory management

Features

Total features of TouchBistro: 64

  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Built-in Accounting
  • Cash Management
  • Clock In/Out
  • Contact Management
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customisable Reports
  • Data Import/Export
  • Delivery Management
  • Discount Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Employee Management
  • Food Delivery Dispatching
  • For Bars/Clubs
  • For Restaurants
  • For iPad Devices
  • Gift Card Management
  • Inventory Control
  • Inventory Management
  • Inventory Tracking
  • Item Management
  • Kitchen/Menu Management
  • Loyalty Program
  • Mobile Access
  • Offline Access
  • Online Ordering
  • Online Payments
  • Order Entry
  • Order Management
  • Payment Processing
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Pricing Management
  • Promotions Management
  • Real Time Analytics
  • Real Time Data
  • Real Time Monitoring
  • Real Time Notifications
  • Real Time Reporting
  • Real-time Updates
  • Receipt Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reservations Management
  • Restaurant POS
  • Retail Inventory Management
  • Returns Management
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Orders
  • Sales Reports
  • Sales Tax Management
  • Separate Checks
  • Split Checks
  • Status Tracking
  • Stock Management
  • Table Management
  • Third Party Integrations
  • Time Clock
  • Tips Management
  • Wait List Management

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.0 /5
(359)
Value for Money
3.6/5
Features
3.9/5
Ease of Use
4.2/5
Customer Support
3.6/5

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George
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  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Excellent product!

Reviewed on 15/12/2017

TouchBistro is central to our restaurant operation. Our servers are happy with it, and overall...

TouchBistro is central to our restaurant operation. Our servers are happy with it, and overall administration is easy and effective for our needs.

Pros

TouchBistro is very easy setup and use and is truly designed for restaurant use. The cloud reporting feature and customer support are also excellent.

Cons

The one downside for us is that you can't do any real administrative activity without disrupting service, so you have to do it on one of the iPads outside business hours.

Response from TouchBistro

Hey, George!

Thanks so much for your review. Very happy to hear you're finding TouchBistro to be very easy to setup and use, and agree with us that TouchBistro is truly designed for restaurant use.

If there's anything I can do to make your experience even better, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Firas
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to use, intuitive with excellent stats and dashboard.

Reviewed on 31/3/2017

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.

Allen
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  • Industry: Restaurants
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

Look elsewhere if you're considering TouchBistro!

Reviewed on 2/12/2021

This software has steadily gone done hill in the last 3 years. Tech support is horrible, unless...

This software has steadily gone done hill in the last 3 years. Tech support is horrible, unless you get a mid-level person who knows something. The movement to everything being cloud-based sounds great, but makes daily server reporting tedious and time consuming. HORRIBLE. If i didn't have so much money invested in equipment between multiple restaurants, i would change. If you're new and considering purchasing TouchBistro....DON'T! Look elsewhere!

Pros

Table side ordering. Menu flexibility. Expandability.

Cons

The more they add features, the worse it gets. I highly doubt that the development people have any restaurant experience. Refunding a cc that has been wrung in is ridiculously difficult. To top it off, they have just recently started to move EVERYTHING to the cloud. Including the server end-of-day reports which makes it extremely hard to check credit cards, voids, comps, etc. It's ridiculous at best. No thought whatsoever on user friendliness.

Alternatives Considered

Revel Systems

Reasons for Choosing TouchBistro

Tableside ordering.

Reasons for Switching to TouchBistro

Not really sure...wish daily I hadn't.

Response from TouchBistro

Hi Allen,
I apologize for the issues you've been facing with TouchBistro. Our updates are all made based on customer requests, the cloud-first reporting feature was a popular request to be able to access reports anywhere you are. I will ensure that your sentiments are passed along to the product team for consideration.
- Carly at TouchBistro

Darren
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Over all Good just Bad Support

Reviewed on 27/3/2017

Over all my experince has been good, I am just very frustrated with support. The tech support is on...

Over all my experince has been good, I am just very frustrated with support. The tech support is on call all the time, it is the support from other depatments like billing etc. I have have on several occasions left messages for someone to call and have had no response at all, not even a call back or a support ticket to say they have heard my message. I waited up to one week before I called again. I live on the West Coast and support areas are east Coast so at time if I need someone they are gone for the day around 2 pm my time, and no one to help us in the west later in the day as needed. Voice mails don't say when person is available or best times to call or to call between certain times. No mention that other then Tech support the rest are off over weekends, if your catering to restaurant you need more support over weekends, would be nice to only be Mon-Fri as a restaurant owner, but never going to happen. it is all very frustrating and very much a huge hassle to get anyone when needed beyond tech support. I have been very unhappy in this area with Touch Bistro.

Pros

Easy to use set up and teach staff to use

Cons

I may not know about it, but would be great to have a text feature for guests to order from our pool side that can alert server to an order

Bill
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  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best decision ever

Reviewed on 4/4/2017

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.

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TouchBistro FAQs

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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

TouchBistro has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

TouchBistro supports the following languages:

English

TouchBistro supports the following devices:

iPad (Mobile)

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

TouchBistro offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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