“In general, our vision is to really enable a world where restaurants of all different sizes deliver the best customer experience by leveraging [an online service that includes point-of-sale],” he said. “That means providing a better experience for waiter and waitress who want to create orders much more nimbly, or a better guest experience for customer and patron, and we feel tech can be an enabler.” The service operates on Android tablets, but of course that means it’s going to compete with other point-of-sales services.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/toast-a-point-of-sale-service-for-restaurants-raises-30m/