{"id":20122,"date":"2025-09-09T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2025-09-09T06:32:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:32:43","slug":"the-signs-that-have-us-thinking-toast-is-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/the-signs-that-have-us-thinking-toast-is-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"The Signs That Have Us Thinking Toast Is in Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Toast has dominated the restaurant industry over the past decade thanks to amazing tailwinds (free capital, torpidity from top competitors, a mostly-useless reseller distribution model) and great execution.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there's only so much upside when you serve, to quote Jim Cramer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/22\/jim-cramer-says-toast-is-a-good-company-but-its-stock-is-too-expensive-to-buy-right-now.html\">the worst customers in the world<\/a>.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toast has dominated the restaurant industry over the past decade thanks to amazing tailwinds (free capital, torpidity from top competitors, a mostly-useless reseller distribution model) and great execution. But there&#8217;s only so much upside when you serve, to quote Jim Cramer, the worst customers in the world. Subscribe or log in to read the rest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-5ey","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/image.png?fit=1058%2C532&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25792,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions\/25792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}