Restaurant app based company with no one from restaurants LOL - Customer Support Representative Toast Inc Employee Review

2.0
18 Feb 2019
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Pros

Start-up positive attitudes Decent work environment Work hard play hard mentality

Cons

There is a good amount of useless fat in this company. It seems like everyone they’ve hired in the past six months has never even worked a day in the restaurant industry. So they’re genuine understanding of how restaurants run is nonexistent. I’ve dealt with my fair share of confused and frustrated customers via helping other coworkers. I’ve talked to some remote Success people and they’re clueless. It’s almost embarrassing as a team member that’s worked in the restaurant industry for a few years.

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Toast Inc Response
7y
Thank you for this candid feedback. When we're hiring, we look for a balance of three key things: restaurant experience, technical experience, and customer service experience. Our goal is to hire employees with strong customer service skills that have empathy and passion for our customers' success. We take training very seriously and even offer unique modules such as restaurant empathy. If you are comfortable, please come talk to me so that I can better understand the gaps in our training program. Your insight will be extremely valuable. - Debra Fleig, VP, Customer Support

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5.0
28 May 2026
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Pros

Flexible hybrid work, great culture working for the company, benefits and pay is pretty good as well

Cons

Can feel hard to move within the company as opportunities don't open up often for specialist to move upwards

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Toast Inc Response
3w
We appreciate you sharing a candid review with us. We’re delighted that the culture and benefits are resonating with you. We'd recommend reaching out to your People Success Partner to discuss your feedback further.
2.0
26 Jun 2026
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Pros

The benefits and health insurance are amazing and the company culture as a whole is very positive. It was a pleasure to work with almost everyone I met in my time there.

Cons

Lower management, especially for care teams, deeply lacks integrity. Retaliatory practices, lack of communication, and failure to adhere to their own policies are very common behavior depending on who your manager is. The inconsistencies across what is expected from leadership are profound and it is disappointing how much this can derail your career trajectory at Toast. It’s also very difficult to help customers at times, as Toast is notorious for launching new products at customers and providing little to no support to agents that are then expected to troubleshoot using sparse or nonexistent resources and absolutely no training. Cross-collaboration with teams that occasionally intersect is also very challenging, particularly Sales/Onboarding and Care. There were many instances where sales and onboarding specialists set customers up with false expectations of the product, which leaves care teams to deal with the aftermath.

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