Toast report shows fine-dining restaurants use Toast IQ 29% more than fast-casual peers

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  • Toast published a Q1 2026 Restaurant Trends Report analyzing Toast IQ usage across 125,000 U.S. restaurant locations from Jan. 1 to March 31, 2026.
  • Fine dining locations used Toast IQ 29% more than fast-casual restaurants, signaling faster AI adoption in higher-touch service segments.
  • Most common operator queries focused on sales and revenue (47% of restaurants), menu and inventory (34%), guest and marketing (32%).
  • Menu optimization drew interest from 26% of restaurants; labor cost and efficiency topics appeared at 13%, highlighting margin pressure priorities.
  • Toast’s platform served about 171,000 locations as of March 31, 2026, providing a large dataset for operational benchmarking.


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