Get Beyond vs. TouchBistro

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Get Beyond
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Get Beyond is a back office oriented restaurant management system designed to provide a comprehensive back office administration automation solution. It includes the capabilities of the former Peachworks.N/A
TouchBistro
Score 6.0 out of 10
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TouchBistro is a complete mobile POS solution on the iPad for the restaurant industry. It allows users to manage reservations, view the menu, take orders and review sales reports with a few simple touches. Instead of servers repeatedly moving between customers and terminals for order management, servers can remain with customers and instantly submit orders to the kitchen and bar. Servers no longer need to write down an order and then enter it into a distant terminal. TouchBistro's single entry…
$25
per month
Pricing
Get BeyondTouchBistro
Editions & Modules
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Gift Cards
$25
per month
Online Ordering
$50
per month
POS License
$69
per month
Reservations
$229
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.1
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Usability
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8.2
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Support Rating
10.0
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Get BeyondTouchBistro
Likelihood to Recommend
Excellent, excellent choice for a multi-unit franchisee of quick service restaurants. I would hesitate to recommend for a "mom and pop" type restaurant, particularly one that was not generating at least $1m in sales. I would also hesitate to recommend for a multi-unit restaurant that had legacy general ledger integration unless they were willing to spend the time and energy to re-integrate, which is not an automatic or particularly easy process.
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For a small business like ours, it works very well, is very user friendly, but the cost to add more tablets so that we can keep one at the bar, one on the interior dining area and one on the outside dining area is difficult as they have to be iPads, and there is an additional cost to add another tablet for use on the floor
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Pros
  • Easily add and track inventory items
  • Recipe management that allows for built-in costing and calorie / nutrition reporting that is often required by local, state and national regulations
  • Cloud based employee scheduling ensures that staffing levels are adequate, employees are happy and surprises are limited
  • Very easy to learn and train new employess
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  • Very fast transaction times; I do not need to wait for the credit slip printer to respond, it is almost instantaneous.
  • I can add, delete, or modify menu items on the fly and in real time in literally a handful of seconds.
  • TouchBistro provides an intuitive and easy way to check my tasting room’s metrics in real time from anywhere on the globe.
  • My employees are able to access a customized menu of item modifiers and discounts very quickly and easily.
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Cons
  • Some custom reports can have errors in our register system is altered (time punch edits).
  • Exports can't be customized by font style or size, and must be done within Excel.
  • Cost. It is a big program, and we have Enterprise, plus six restaurant locations, so we have a lot of info on it.
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  • Online ordering can not be added on to once the customer arrives, can’t edit or change anything once placed
  • Slow speed to place next order, and syncing with debit machines
  • Frustrating that screen needs to be closed until payment goes through, hard in a very busy restaurant
  • New updates always cause glitches in the system. The last update I now have drinks printing to my kitchen that never did before.
  • Admin and servers not being able to do printouts
  • Discounts not displaying on day printouts
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Usability
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It's an incredibly easy system to navigate both from a management perspective as well as a service member perspective.Training, programming items and inventory, day to day sales, processing payments, gathering reports and data, gift card sales and processing (with the exception of online for us) is easy and seamless.
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Support Rating
We have a support representative, and whenever I've needed help customizing a report, or some numbers aren't coming through correctly, they are only one email away. It's very timely in response. They can view our system from the backside, and have fixed problems for me with integration or just a formula wrong in one of my custom reports.
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First of all, I hardly ever need support for Touch Bistro, that’s how well it works. In the very instances over the years where I did need to call, customer support was easily accessible and fast and accurate with their responses
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Alternatives Considered
I have only used the previous program they had here when I started, called Food Trak. It's a very old system. I think it was DOS-based.
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Toast overall was a very impressive system. However being new to Canada I was hesitant to sign. Clover worked well with payment processing but was not a great system for sales and service. Square would repeatedly crash and miss payments, their customer service was terrible and took too much effort to have any corrective assistance. We went with TouchBistro because in all the restaurants I have worked in this has been a consistent system and was able to integrate with Moneris payments.
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Return on Investment
  • More control for the managers, and they easily see how they affect their overall numbers. They can see labor percentages at 15-minute intervals, and that is key when controlling payroll.
  • It has streamlined our corporate office duties. Each store processes their own invoices, instead of our older method of sending all invoices to the office to enter on our old software.
  • I get all of my payroll hours from PeachWorks in an Excel file that I can upload to our external payroll company. That ALONE has saved me hours of manual entry.
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  • The consistency of ordering with Touch Bistro has aged me money! From the customer to the person who takes the order to the person who makes the order and then back to the customer we have less room for error with Touch Bistro.
  • It can be slow during large volume times, especially if a lot of my customers are laying with credit cards or gift cards.
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