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White Bread

A point-of-sale system for pizza, sandwich, and counter shops. You own it.

Toast charges $69 to $165 a month per terminal, before you ring up a single sale. Then $50 a month per module. Then 2.49 to 3.5% plus 15¢ on every transaction. And the hardware only talks to Toast software, so leaving means starting over.

White Bread does the same job. You pay once. You own it. It runs on whatever tablet you already have.

What it does

Order entry with modifiers. Kitchen tickets, print or screen. Stripe payments. Inventory deduction per sale. Restaurant Depot shopping list auto-generated from your stock and forecast. Dough fermentation calendar. Daily, weekly, monthly reports. Multiple terminals if you grow.

What it costs

$22,000 to build. Single shop, full feature set. Multi-location, we quote.

$50 to $150 a month if you want us hosting it and keeping it running. Cancel anytime.

Or $0. Take the source code and run it yourself.

For perspective: a single Toast terminal at $129/mo plus 3% on $25K of monthly card sales is roughly $9,500 a year. White Bread pays back in just over two. Card fees stay (that's Stripe, not us) but the software bleed stops.

How it works

Fifteen-minute call. We build it in six to eight weeks. We run it side-by-side with your current POS for a couple of weeks. You cut over. Sixty days of bug fixes included. Then you choose: hosted, self-hosted, or take it and go.

Tested on a real pizza line

White Bread runs Caro's Pizzeria, a Charleston pop-up that doubles as our test kitchen. Every cook day, every pie, the same screens your staff would see. When something is annoying, we feel it ourselves at 6pm with a line of customers, and it gets fixed before it ever reaches you. You don't get that from Toast.

The honest part

Source code on delivery. Full IP transfer in writing. No subscription, no per-terminal fees, no per-module fees. No hardware lock-in. Cancel anything in writing. The software stays yours. Made in Charleston.

Want to talk?

Tell us what shop you run and what your POS is costing you.