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Restaurant POS Market Statistics 2026: What Toast’s Public Filings Show

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Toast, Inc. served approximately 120,000 US restaurants as of its Q2 2024 Form 10-Q, and reported $4.96 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024, per its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed February 26, 2025. Both figures come from a Wikipedia summary attributing them to Toast’s own SEC filings, not a direct read of the filings themselves, and 2024 is the newest year confirmed in this research pass; Toast’s more recent 2025 results were not independently retrieved.

Both numbers are worth reading as a proxy for the scale of the restaurant-POS category one named, public competitor occupies, not a claim about the full restaurant-POS market across every vendor.

What Toast’s Own Filings Report

Toast, Inc. served approximately 120,000 US restaurants as of its Q2 2024 Form 10-Q, and reported $4.96 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024 on its Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed February 26, 2025. Both figures are drawn from a Wikipedia summary attributing them to Toast’s own SEC filings rather than a direct read of the filing documents themselves, and 2024 is the newest year this research pass confirmed; a more recent 2025 quarterly or annual figure was not independently retrieved.

A location count in the hundred-thousand range and revenue near five billion dollars describe a single named, public restaurant-POS vendor, not the entire restaurant-POS category. Read together, they are a useful proxy for the scale of the specific competitor an agent is most likely to hear a restaurant prospect name.

Why a Public Filing Is a Useful Number to Have on Hand

Every figure on this page traces to a public company’s own disclosed, audited numbers, a different tier of confidence than an unsourced industry estimate. That matters in a restaurant pitch specifically, since restaurant owners increasingly evaluate a processing relationship alongside a POS decision, not separately, and knowing the real scale of the vendor a prospect is comparing against is more useful than a vague sense that Toast is “big.”

These figures sit inside a much larger card-payment backdrop. US card network purchase volume reached $2.909 trillion in Q1 2026, up 7.9% year over year, the transaction volume every restaurant POS and processing relationship, Toast’s included, ultimately runs through.

The Numbers

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Toast, Inc. served approximately 120,000 US restaurants as of its Q2 2024 Form 10-Q.

Wikipedia, Toast, Inc. (citing Toast’s Q2 2024 Form 10-Q)

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Toast, Inc. reported $4.96 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2024, per its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed February 26, 2025.

Wikipedia, Toast, Inc. (citing Toast’s 2024 Form 10-K)

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US card network purchase volume reached $2.909 trillion in Q1 2026, up 7.9% year over year, the broader transaction volume a restaurant POS and processing relationship runs through.

Nilson Report, US Card Network Results First Quarter 2026

Sources

The external data in this article draws on the sources below. Figures described in the text as estimates or industry triangulations are directional and are not attributed to a single dataset.

FAQ

How many restaurants does Toast serve?
Approximately 120,000 US restaurants, as of Toast’s Q2 2024 Form 10-Q.
How much revenue did Toast report?
$4.96 billion for fiscal year 2024, per its Annual Report on Form 10-K filed February 26, 2025.
How current are these figures?
2024 is the newest year confirmed in this research pass. Toast’s more recent 2025 quarterly and annual results were not independently retrieved.
Are these numbers directly verified against Toast’s own SEC filings?
They are drawn from a Wikipedia summary attributing both figures to Toast’s own 10-Q and 10-K filings, not a direct read of the filings, so treat them as a secondary aggregation pending direct verification.
Why does a single competitor’s filing data matter to a merchant services agent?
Restaurant owners increasingly compare a processing relationship alongside a POS decision, and knowing the real, disclosed scale of a named vendor a prospect might mention is more useful than a vague industry estimate.

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