Emerging AI
Toast Sous Chef
AI assistant that surfaces insights from your sales and labor data.
bundled with Toast
What it costs
Bundled within Toast (now part of the Toast IQ intelligence ecosystem); no separate standalone price.
Best for
Toast restaurants that want plain-language answers and proactive insights from their own sales and labor data.
Pros
- Turns Toast data into plain-language answers and recommendations
- Proactively surfaces insights via a personalized feed
- Can take actions like updating menus or editing shifts in Toast
- Menu upsell features have lifted average order volume in trials
Cons
- Toast-only; useless outside the Toast ecosystem
- An assistant, not an autonomous agent
- Now folded into the broader Toast IQ branding
Integrations
Native to Toast POS and the Toast IQ ecosystem; works across menus, scheduling and reporting within Toast.
Alternatives
Tenzo (BI) · Avero · Restaurant365 analytics
Our take: A handy, increasingly capable AI layer if you already run Toast; there's no reason to consider it otherwise.
Pricing is the public list rate or a research estimate as of June 2026 — always confirm on a live quote. We take no commission from any vendor; this is for reference.