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Data Quadrant Awards 2025

Restaurant POS

SoftwareReviews names Toast POS, Revel Systems POS, Lavu Restaurant POS, SkyTab, and PAR PixelPoint POS as Restaurant POS Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Restaurant POS

Data Quadrant

Data Quadrants are proudly founded in 100% user review data and are free of traditional "magical" components such as market presence and analyst opinion, which are opaque in nature and may be influenced by vendor pressure, financial or otherwise.

The SoftwareReviews Data Quadrant evaluates and ranks products based on feedback from IT and business professionals. The placement of a software in the Data Quadrant indicates its relative ranking as well as its categorization.

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vendor capability comparisons
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business value scores
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individual feature evaluations
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emotional connection to products

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

18Reviews

Toast Inc.

Toast POS

Toast Point of Sale, is an all-in-one platform combining powerful cloud-based software, payment processing, and beautiful hardware, all built for the restaurant industry.

8.0

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+91

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94%

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16Reviews

Shift4

Revel Systems POS

Revel Systems is now part of Shift4. Leverage the Most Flexible Cloud POS System for Multi-Location Growth Your technology should ensure your brand’s resilience to marketplace changes. Utilize the most flexible cloud POS to meet customer demands, adapt to market changes, expand your reach, and drive profits.

7.8

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+96

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87%

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Lavu Inc.

Lavu Restaurant POS

As featured in Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares! STARTING AT $59/MO WITH FREE HARDWARE INCLUDED. Purpose-built for restaurants by restaurant people, Lavu's easy-to-use, mobile POS and restaurant management platform is designed to fit any dining type, cuisine, and budget. Lavu streamlines operations and increases revenue while delighting customers. Offering in-house payment processing, online ordering, detailed reporting, loyalty programs, labor management, inventory management &amp; more.

7.4

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+90

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91%

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Shift4

SkyTab

SkyTab (formerly Restaurant Manager) is more than just a POS system. It’s an all-in-one restaurant platform that will transform your business - from front-of house to back-of-house and everything in between.

7.3

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+90

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80%

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PAR Technology Corporation

PAR PixelPoint POS

PAR PixelPoint POS software is designed for use in any and all restaurant and entertainment concepts, and is configurable to meet your your specific environment requirements, rather than forcing you to change your current processes. PixelPoint POS is available as a perpetual license or subscription option.

7.0

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+84

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86%

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Heartland Restaurant POS

Breadth of Features

Lavu Restaurant POS

Business Value Created

Toast POS

Ease of Customization

Toast POS

Ease of Data Integration

Heartland Restaurant POS

Ease of IT Administration

Revel Systems POS

Ease of Implementation

Lavu Restaurant POS

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Toast POS

Quality of Features

Toast POS

Usability and Intuitiveness

Toast POS

Vendor Support

Lavu Restaurant POS

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

Heartland Restaurant POS

Breadth of Features

Lavu Restaurant POS

Business Value Created

Toast POS

Ease of Customization

Toast POS

Ease of Data Integration

Heartland Restaurant POS

Ease of IT Administration

Revel Systems POS

Ease of Implementation

Lavu Restaurant POS

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Toast POS

Quality of Features

Toast POS

Usability and Intuitiveness

Toast POS

Vendor Support

Lavu Restaurant POS

Other Evaluated Vendors

10Reviews

Heartland, a Global Payments company

Heartland Restaurant POS

Digital Dining's Point of Sale Software does a lot, it's simple to use and goes way beyond the basics.

6.9

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+88

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77%

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21Reviews

Agilysys, Inc

Agilysys InfoGenesis POS

The award-winning point-of-sale solution that’s designed to help hospitality businesses serve their guests more effectively. Agilysys InfoGenesis POS boasts an intuitive touchscreen with extensive back-end reporting and analytics that enable operators to control costs and streamline operations. With centralized enterprise configuration, businesses can quickly leverage this next-generation point-of-sale to transform the guest service experience with ease. Switch seamlessly between terminals and tablets to maximize server efficiency.

6.6

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+77

Emotional
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84%

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17Reviews

Square, Inc.

Square Restaurant POS

Square for Restaurants is a point-of-sale platform built from the ground up with software, hardware, and payments to streamline your entire restaurant operation. It’s built for front of house and back of house. And it’s built for speed.

6.6

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+72

Emotional
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83%

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51Reviews

NCR Voyix

Aloha Cloud POS System

Aloha Cloud by NCR Voyix is the all-in-one cloud-based POS solution you can depend on. Featuring an easy-to-use interface, restaurant-grade hardware and next-day payment funding. With offerings to manage the restaurant at every size and stage, we’re here to grow with you.

6.5

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+71

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75%

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13Reviews

Mad Mobile Inc

CAKE POS

CAKE by Mad Mobile is a Sysco Solutions Partner and all-in-one POS solution that helps businesses serve guests faster, scale their technology and grow. Our partnership assists in providing the best-in-class restaurant technology to Sysco customers and prospects.

6.4

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+83

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Footprint

63%

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Squirrel Systems Inc

Squirrel POS

Built on a proven and reliable platform, everything about Squirrel POS software has been designed with flexibility and efficiency in mind

6.2

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+83

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67%

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52Reviews

Oracle

Oracle MICROS Simphony POS

Oracle Hospitality Simphony is the premiere cloud and mobile hospitality management platform, providing enterprise point-of-sale (POS) and back-office functionality to support a wide range of food and beverage operations.

5.8

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+56

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69%

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Volante Technologies Inc

Volante POS

Volanté develops enterprise point-of-sale software specializing in multi-unit quick service and table service restaurants, institutional cafeterias and retirement ..

5.6

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+55

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70%

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Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.