September 2026 snapshot · 72 AI answers Leader emerging

Restaurant POS & Management: AI Visibility Ranking

Point-of-sale and management systems for restaurants covering orders, payments, kitchen, and staff. Right now, Toast is the brand AI assistants recommend most, with a Visibility Score of 85 and the #1 spot in 67% of answers. Head-to-head: Toast vs Square →

These rankings are measured from what the three models know from training, not a live web search. When the models DO search the web, see which sources they cite. Methodology.

Toast leads Restaurant POS but the pack is closing in.

Toast sits at 66.9 and appears in 69% of answers, but that 25-point gap over Square overstates the security of its position: Claude and Gemini show notably warmer attitudes toward Square and TouchBistro than ChatGPT does, meaning Toast's lead is partly a function of one model's strong preference. Square's Gemini score of 57.5 nearly matches Toast's 58.8 on that same model, which is the kind of per-model parity that tends to widen as AI recommendations evolve. Toast should treat its first-pick rate of 50% as a number to protect, not a ceiling to celebrate.

AI-generated analysis of the September 2026 measurements.

#	Brand	Visibility Score	Trend (2 mo)	Mention rate	Avg. position	#1 pick rate	Models
1	Toast	85 ±0.9	flat	88%	1.3	67%	ChatGPT #1 Claude #1 Gemini #1
2	Square	71 ±3.8	▼ 7	81%	2.2	18%	ChatGPT #2 Claude #2 Gemini #2
3	Lightspeed Restaurant	48 ±4.3	flat	64%	3.5	0%	ChatGPT #3 Claude #3 Gemini #3
4	TouchBistro	30 ±5.2	flat	42%	3.8	0%	ChatGPT #5 Claude #4 Gemini #5
5	Clover	29 ±6	flat	43%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT #4 Claude #5 Gemini #6
6	SpotOn	14 ±4.2	flat	21%	4.4	0%	ChatGPT #7 Claude #12 Gemini #4
7	Revel Systems	9 ±4.3	flat	17%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #8 Claude #6 Gemini #10
8	SpotOn Restaurant	4 ±3.7	flat	6%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT #6 Claude Gemini
9	Oracle MICROS	4 ±3.6	flat	8%	5.7	0%	ChatGPT #12 Claude #7 Gemini #11
10	Aloha	4 ±2.7	flat	8%	6.0	0%	ChatGPT #9 Claude #8 Gemini
11	Revel	4 ±2.2	flat	6%	4.3	0%	ChatGPT #11 Claude #10 Gemini
12	SkyTab	3 ±2.4	flat	7%	6.2	0%	ChatGPT #10 Claude Gemini #8
13	Loyverse	3 ±0	flat	4%	3.0	0%	ChatGPT Claude Gemini #7
14	Microsoft Entra ID	3 ±2.7	flat	3%	1.0	3%	ChatGPT Claude #9 Gemini
15	Helcim	3 ±3.8	flat	3%	1.0	3%	ChatGPT Claude #11 Gemini #9

The ± under each score is the reliability band: how much the number would move if we re-ran the identical measurement. It is tight because each prompt is sampled multiple times. It is not the same as how much the ranking depends on which prompts we ask — a separate, wider figure shown on hover.

Just below the cutoff: Okta (2.5), Ping Identity (2.2), NCR Voyix (2.1), Oracle Simphony (1.9), Deliverect (1.7). 50 brands were scored in this category; the leaderboard shows the top 15.

Visibility Score: position-weighted presence across all measured answers, 0 to 100. A score of 100 means the brand was the first recommendation in every answer. Every point in a trend line is a live monthly measurement; there is no modeled or backfilled history. Full methodology.

Openness 15/100: the share of this category's recommendation weight not held by the leader.

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Do the models agree?

Per-model Visibility Scores for the top 10. A long gray bar means the three assistants disagree about the brand. Hover a row for exact values.

ChatGPT Claude Gemini

Where they land in the answer

When a brand is mentioned, where does it appear? Box shows the middle 50% of positions, the thick line is the median, whiskers are the extremes. Hover a row for the detail.