Toast Just Bought the Front Door: Inside the Amex Deal, Toast Go 3, and Sydney

Toast point-of-sale terminal on a busy restaurant pass.

Toast's Q2 wasn't a beat-and-raise story. It was a pivot. The Amex partnership, the Toast Go 3 hardware refresh, and the first Australian customer add up to one thesis: Toast is no longer selling POS. It's selling the demand-generation layer that sits in front of it. Operators should plan accordingly.

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