Applebee’s, TGI Fridays and IHOP each replaced their point of sale system since April 2024. Every one of those switches reset the vendor stack around the register: payments, kitchen displays, loyalty, inventory, labor scheduling and analytics.
This list covers 20 brands, the POS platform each one runs, and the sales opportunity each choice creates. Span tracks 564,028 companies running POS software, so the enterprise names below are the visible tip of a much larger market.
Sources: Span POS Users List (October 2026); company and vendor announcements listed below.
Number of companies on this list
| # | Company | POS Platform | Sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burger King | PAR Brink | Quick Service |
| 2 | Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut | Byte by Yum | Quick Service |
| 3 | Domino’s | Pulse | Quick Service |
| 4 | Chipotle | NCR Voyix Aloha | Quick Service |
| 5 | Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s | PAR Brink | Quick Service |
| 6 | Five Guys | PAR Brink | Quick Service |
| 7 | Taco Palenque | Toast Drive-Thru | Quick Service |
| 8 | Applebee’s | Toast | Casual Dining |
| 9 | TGI Fridays | Toast | Casual Dining |
| 10 | IHOP | TRAY | Casual Dining |
| 11 | Caribou Coffee | Toast | Casual Dining |
| 12 | Potbelly Sandwich Shop | Toast | Casual Dining |
| 13 | Nothing Bundt Cakes | Toast | Casual Dining |
| 14 | Omni Hotels and Resorts | Oracle Simphony | Hospitality |
| 15 | Pacsun | Manhattan Active POS | Retail |
| 16 | At Home | Oracle Xstore | Retail |
| 17 | Boot Barn | Aptos ONE | Retail |
| 18 | Allbirds | Shopify POS | Retail |
| 19 | Purdys Chocolatier | Square | Retail |
| 20 | Lowe’s | Meridius | Retail |
Eleven decisions in 25 months. Scroll sideways to see them all, and click a company to jump to its profile.
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Burger, pizza, burrito and taco chains. Companies 1 to 7.
In October 2023, Burger King named PAR its exclusive POS software and services provider for traditional restaurants across North America. One corporate decision moved an entire franchise system onto one cloud platform.
PAR Brink POS, plus PAR’s MENU order management software.
North America
Payments, drive-thru AI, kitchen display and delivery integration vendors that already connect to Brink. Sell to corporate first, then to franchise operators.
Yum built Byte through acquisitions such as Dragontail Systems plus internal development, so franchisees get one turnkey stack.
Byte by Yum, a proprietary platform covering POS, kitchen management, online ordering and back of house tools.
About 25,000 Yum restaurants use at least one Byte component (February 2025).
Cloud, AI, hardware and network providers. Yum buys components for Byte, so pitch a part of the stack rather than a POS replacement.
Domino’s treats its POS as a core capability and keeps it in house.
Pulse, a POS system Domino’s built and runs itself.
Domino’s stores use Pulse to run ordering, the Pizza Tracker and store operations.
Hardware, connectivity, cybersecurity and data partners. A POS replacement pitch will not land here.
In November 2025, Chipotle signed a six year exclusive agreement with NCR Voyix, extending a relationship that already spans more than 25 years.
NCR Voyix Aloha (next generation).
Chipotle’s global restaurant network.
Add-on vendors that integrate with Aloha. The core POS decision is locked for six years, so the open budget sits in the tools around it. See our Aloha POS users list for other Aloha operators.
CKE selected Brink in January 2021 after years as a PAR hardware and services customer, then rolled the software out through 2021.
PAR Brink POS.
More than 3,900 locations across 44 U.S. states and 43 countries and territories.
Franchise operations, labor and inventory software vendors that integrate with Brink.
Five Guys is one of Brink’s longest running enterprise accounts, with back office tools such as Crunchtime connected to it.
PAR Brink POS.
Five Guys locations worldwide, on Brink since 2015.
Vendors with a ready Brink integration. A ten year POS relationship signals stability, so lead with add-on value.
Palenque Group was the named launch customer for Toast Drive-Thru in April 2026. Toast is rolling the product out to brands with 15 or more locations, moving into drive-thru territory long held by PAR and NCR.
Toast Drive-Thru.
Taco Palenque locations across Texas.
Drive-thru hardware, AI voice ordering and digital menu board vendors. Regional QSR chains with 15+ units are the next wave to evaluate.
Tell us the POS platform and the buyer, and we will scope the count for you.
Table service chains, coffee and bakery. Companies 8 to 13.
Applebee’s announced the switch in April 2025. Handhelds change how servers work the floor, which changes labor scheduling and training needs.
Toast POS terminals, Toast Go handhelds, kitchen display systems and Restaurant Management Suite Enterprise.
About 1,600 restaurants (1,567 franchise and 47 company operated as of December 2024).
Workforce management, training, guest engagement and pay at the table vendors.
Catering tools and kiosks are optional modules TGI Fridays may add later.
Toast POS, kitchen display, mobile ordering and handhelds.
All U.S. TGI Fridays locations (announced November 2025).
Catering, kiosk and online ordering vendors. Optional modules are an open evaluation, and competitors can still compete for them.
IHOP replaced a 15 year old system. Franchisees with server tablets reported higher average checks, higher beverage attach rates, faster ticket times and higher tips.
TRAY cloud POS.
1,500 restaurants, migrated in 2024.
Note that Dine Brands runs two POS stacks: IHOP on TRAY and Applebee’s on Toast. Vendors selling to the parent need a pitch that works on both.
Toast names Caribou among its enterprise clients.
Toast.
Caribou Coffee’s U.S. coffeehouse network.
Loyalty, mobile order ahead and inventory vendors in the coffee category.
Toast lists Potbelly among its enterprise restaurant brands.
Toast.
Potbelly’s U.S. sandwich shop network.
Digital ordering, catering and franchise development tools with Toast integrations.
Another Toast enterprise client. Six of the 20 brands on this list run Toast, more than any other vendor here.
Toast.
Nothing Bundt Cakes’ U.S. franchise bakery network.
Gifting, preorder and franchise marketing vendors.
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Hotels and resorts. Company 14.
Omni ties restaurant and outlet sales to guest profiles and its Select Guest loyalty program through Oracle’s cloud stack (June 2025).
Oracle Simphony Cloud POS, connected to OPERA Cloud PMS and OPERA Cloud Central.
More than 50 hotels and resorts across North America.
Hospitality analytics, guest personalization and F&B vendors in the Oracle partner ecosystem.
Apparel, home, specialty and DTC. Companies 15 to 20.
During peak holiday season, Pacsun fulfilled 40% of online orders from stores, cut logistics expenses by 25% and resolved unified orders 50% faster.
Manhattan Active Point of Sale.
300+ stores (November 2025).
Store fulfillment, inventory visibility and returns management vendors.
At Home finished moving off Toshiba ACE onto Xstore in June 2025 and replaced part of its hardware fleet in more than 100 stores.
Oracle Retail Xstore.
260 stores in 40 states.
POS hardware, payments and store systems integrators. Migrations like this one usually trigger new peripheral and support contracts.
Boot Barn picked Aptos ONE in May 2026 and plans to run it in stores and at pop-ups at rodeos and music festivals.
Aptos ONE, a cloud native, mobile first POS.
500+ U.S. stores, with a long term goal of 1,200.
Mobile hardware, connectivity and event retail vendors. A retailer planning to more than double its store count is a multi year buyer.
More than half of what Allbirds ships from stores is slower moving inventory, which frees floor space and cuts end of season returns to the warehouse.
Shopify POS with Ship from Store.
31 retail stores fulfilling online orders.
Shopify app developers and DTC retail service providers. Our Shopify users list and Shopify tech stack guide cover this segment in depth.
Purdys uses Square’s open APIs to connect the POS to existing business systems.
Square for Retail Plus, Square Register, Square Handheld, Square Marketing and Square Gift Cards, with a DoorDash integration.
80+ stores across Canada (August 2025).
Integration partners and marketing tools built on Square’s API. Square is moving upmarket into multi store retail.
In January 2026, Lowe’s started licensing Meridius to other retailers in grocery, fashion and convenience, after building it over five to seven years.
Meridius, Lowe’s in house POS for in store and mobile checkout.
Lowe’s U.S. home improvement stores.
Watch this one from both sides. Lowe’s is now a POS vendor, which makes it a competitor to legacy POS providers and a new partner for hardware and loss prevention firms.
Six brands on this list run Toast, and its April 2026 drive-thru launch targets PAR and NCR accounts directly.
Applebee’s, TGI Fridays, IHOP, At Home and Boot Barn all changed POS since 2024. Each switch reopens contracts for payments, hardware, kitchen display and labor tools.
Yum, Domino’s and Lowe’s run proprietary POS. Sell them components, not a replacement.
Press releases arrive after the vendor has won. Count how many of these four signals apply to an account you are watching.
IHOP replaced a 15 year old system. Accounts on aging on premise POS are the next evaluators.
Chipotle’s NCR deal runs six years. Map renewal dates and start conversations 12 to 18 months ahead.
Boot Barn’s 1,200 store goal drove its platform decision. New unit growth forces a POS review.
Dine Brands moved two chains in two years. When one brand switches, check its siblings.
1 signal: Monitor. Add it to a watch list and check it each quarter.
2 signals: Warm. Get in front of operations and IT leaders now.
3 or 4 signals: Hot. Reach the buying team before an RFP goes out.
Span’s technographic data tracks these signals across the full POS market: 564,028 companies and 2.1 million contacts, with fields for POS deployment type, terminal count and upgrade intent. Pair it with intent data to see which accounts are researching a switch right now. For campaign ideas, read 10 ways to use a POS software users contact database.
Span’s POS Users List covers Square, Toast, Clover, Shopify POS, Lightspeed, Oracle MICROS, NCR Aloha and more. Tell us the platform and the buyer, and we will build the list by industry, location count and title.
On this list, Toast leads with six brands, followed by PAR Brink with three. Across the wider U.S. market, Span’s POS users list tracks platform share by company size and industry.
Some do. Lowe’s built Meridius and now licenses it. Most large retailers buy enterprise platforms such as Oracle Xstore, Manhattan Active POS or Aptos ONE.
Use technographic data that records each company’s POS platform, then filter by industry, location count and contact role. Span’s account based marketing services can turn that list into a targeted campaign. Our roundup of top B2B technology database providers compares the options.
