The comparison

Switching costs weeks. That is the only reason you are still on the system you have.

Nobody stays on a POS they dislike because the price is right. They stay because moving means re-typing a menu that took years to get right, retraining everyone, and hoping nothing breaks on a Friday. That is the first row below, and it is what we built the product around.

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Everything below is on their own websites or ours. Where they are better, it says so.

How long before you take your first order

This is the real reason shops stay on a system they hate. Switching costs weeks, not money.

PizzaOS

Send your menu. It comes back built — sizes, crusts, toppings, modifier groups, deals, delivery areas and station routing. You correct what is wrong and go.

Toast: Menu build, module configuration and hardware install. Hundreds of hours across a switch, and an implementation cost.
Thrive: Menu entry and setup with their team.
HungerRush: Custom onboarding, quoted per shop.
Slice: Fast, but you are onboarding onto a marketplace as much as a POS.

Who types your menu in

A pizza menu is not twelve items. It is sizes times crusts times toppings times half-and-half rules, and getting it wrong costs money on every ticket.

PizzaOS

Our AI reads your menu and builds the catalog, then reconciles it when you change something — add, reprice, retire, recategorise. It will never invent a price: if it cannot read one with confidence it refuses to create the item until you enter it.

Toast: You or their onboarding team, by hand.
Thrive: You or their team, by hand.
HungerRush: You or their team, by hand.
Slice: Their team builds it for you.

Can your staff talk to it

Turnover is the tax on a pizza shop. Every new hire costs a week of somebody standing next to them.

PizzaOS

Yes — an assistant in all eight apps that does the job, not one that explains where the button is. "86 the wings", "send it to the kitchen", "clock me in", "give that run to Dave". Push-to-talk on the kitchen screen, tuned for a loud room.

HungerRush: OrderAI answers the phone for customers. Not an assistant your staff can speak to.
Toast: Voice comes from third-party phone-ordering agents that integrate with it. Same story — customer-facing, not staff-facing.
Thrive: No.
Slice: No.

What it costs to add the next thing

The quoted monthly price is rarely the price. The bill grows every time you turn something on.

PizzaOS

Every app is included. The kiosk, your ordering site, the kitchen screens, the driver app, the deal engine, delivery areas and the owner dashboard are not a ladder you climb.

Toast: Modules priced separately — online ordering around $75/mo, loyalty $50, gift cards $50, email marketing $75, kitchen display $25, on top of $69/mo per terminal.
HungerRush: From $199/mo, modules quoted per shop.
Thrive: From $99/mo with delivery and online ordering included — the best of the four on this row.
Slice: $39/mo, plus a fee on every order.

Does anyone take a cut of your orders

A per-order fee scales with your success. A monthly one does not.

PizzaOS

No per-order fee. Your ordering site is yours, on your own domain, and the customer is yours.

Slice: $3.00 per card order on your own site; $2.25 per order on their marketplace, where the customer relationship is theirs.
Toast: No per-order software fee. Card processing 2.49-3.50%+.
Thrive: No per-order fee.
HungerRush: No per-order fee.

Half-and-half that prices the way you want

It is the most-asked-for change on a pizza menu, and the rule decides whether you make money on it.

Even

PizzaOS

Three rules — higher half, average, or both in full — set per shop, published with the worked example so you can check it before you sign.

Toast: Handles true half-and-half properly: per-half topping limits and size-based pricing. Genuinely good at this.
Thrive: Supported; the rule is not published.
HungerRush: Supported; the rule is not published.
Slice: Supported; the rule is not published.

86 an item and it clears every screen

You run out at seven. This is the difference between a busy night and a refund plus a bad review.

Even

PizzaOS

One write clears the register, your site, the app, the kiosk, the phone console and the menu board at the same moment — and it publishes to the voice agent so the next caller is never offered it.

Toast: Clears its own channels.
HungerRush: Clears its own channels, and OrderAI reads the live menu.
Thrive: Clears its own channels.
Slice: Clears its own channels.

What you have to buy to start

Hardware is the up-front cost that decides whether you can switch this quarter or next year.

PizzaOS

Nothing. It runs on the Android tablets, iPads and laptops already in your shop. If you would rather buy terminals we certify and support properly, that list exists — but it is a choice, not a gate. Start on what you own and move later if you want to.

Toast: Their hardware: roughly $1,600 per terminal, $1,400 a handheld, $450 a kitchen display, $1,200-2,500 a kiosk.
HungerRush: Their hardware, under a monthly service agreement.
Thrive: Their terminals and kiosks.
Slice: Slice Register.

Say it, type it, or tap it

The person who needs to 86 the wings has both hands in a dough tray. The person asking what Friday cost is sitting down.

PizzaOS

Every action works three ways — spoken, typed, or tapped — in all eight apps, all doing the same thing and leaving the same record. Push-to-talk on the kitchen screen, tuned for a loud room.

HungerRush: OrderAI answers the phone for customers. Not a way for your staff to drive the till.
Toast: Third-party phone agents integrate with it. Again customer-facing, not staff-facing.
Thrive: Tap only.
Slice: Tap only.

How many shops are already running it

Nobody wants to be the first restaurant on a POS. This is a fair question and we are not going to dodge it.

They win

PizzaOS

We are in private preview, taking a small number of shops at a time, each one live with its real menu and a team who knows it. If being early is wrong for you right now, it is wrong — say so and we will keep in touch.

HungerRush: Over 16,000 restaurants.
Toast: Tens of thousands of restaurants.
Slice: Thousands of pizzerias.
Thrive: Long-established in pizza.

Their figures are from their own published pricing and product pages, read August 2026. Out of date? Tell us and we will change it.

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Send your menu. See your own shop, built.

That is the whole argument on this page and it is easier to show than to read about. Send the menu before the call and your shop is already in it when we start.

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Your own menu, built — not a sample restaurant
Talk to it and watch it do what you asked
An item 86'd, and every screen it vanishes from
Your delivery area drawn on a map with your fees
Straight answers to the questions your last vendor dodged