Toast is a restaurant-focused software and payments provider with approximately 5,300 employees worldwide. Recent staffing activity shows 587 hires against 311 departures, indicating net growth as the company expands its point-of-sale, payroll, and fintech offerings for food-service operators.
Sales & Support is Toast’s largest function at about 2,023 employees, or roughly 38 % of total headcount, underscoring the importance of customer acquisition and service. Engineering follows with 1,251 employees (24 %), reflecting sustained investment in product development and platform reliability. Mid-sized groups include Marketing & Product (485) and Finance & Administration (423), while Business Management, Operations, IT, and HR collectively account for just over 17 % of staff. Smaller specialist teams such as Consulting (49) and an “Other” category (142) round out the workforce, giving Toast a balanced mix of go-to-market, technical, and corporate capabilities.
Toast’s headquarters in Boston hosts 865 employees, or about one-sixth of the workforce. Additional U.S. hubs include Omaha (356), Chicago (247), New York (233), San Francisco (122), Los Angeles (93), and Austin (70), supporting a distributed presence across key metropolitan areas. Internationally, Dublin houses 233 employees and Bengaluru 122, signaling a growing global engineering and support footprint. Around 2,962 team members work in other or remote locations, enabling Toast to tap into diverse talent pools while remaining close to restaurant customers worldwide.