I connected Claude to my Toast POS.

I opened Claude on my phone and asked what the bar did last night. Four seconds later: net sales, 352 checks, a $33 average, tips. Straight from my Toast.

The Toast app can show me most of that. So I kept asking. Compare the last four Saturdays hour by hour and tell me which hour is growing. Show me every time entry this week with no clock-out. Saturday's labor as a percent of sales, both stores, and how much of it was overtime. It answered all of it while I poured coffee.

I love the Toast app. It was a miracle when it came out, and it's still pretty restricted. This opens the gates quite a bit.

If you've used ChatGPT or Claude for your restaurant, you know the routine. Go into Toast, run a report, download it, upload it, ask your question. Next week, same thing. Ten minutes of homework in front of every answer.

I built tools that way for a year. My labor tool ran on me feeding it exports by hand every week. Then I connected Chrome to Claude so it could go get things itself, and learned that browser connections break. If you're logged out when a scheduled task fires, it doesn't run. A tool that works 80% of the time is worse than doing the job yourself.

Now Claude is connected to my Toast directly. Sales, labor, time entries, product mix, live, from my phone. When I ask, it looks. The homework step is gone.

Answering questions is the smaller half. The bigger half is what this makes buildable: a report that checks every location before I wake up, a labor auditor that pulls the week's punches every Monday. Agents running on real numbers, on a schedule. As far as I can tell, a dependable pipe between Toast and AI had not existed before this one.

Toast has an API, a way for other software to talk to your POS. You have to ask for it by name, and there are two programs. Which one to ask for is here.

Someone had published a free tool on GitHub that claimed to connect AI to Toast through that API. I had Claude check it for safety and wired it up. Every call failed. The tool had never worked. One line read Toast's answers wrong, and it had never been run against a real restaurant.

Claude and I fixed it. Seven bugs, each one checked against numbers I know by heart. Then we put it on a $5-a-month server behind a password and plugged it into Claude. The whole thing took a weekend.

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There is information in my Toast I could never see in the app, and now it is one question away from anywhere. The tools I built for labor budgets, punch audits and daily reports pull their own data and run on a schedule. The server I run, and how it runs every morning, is here.

An operator who sees the numbers a day sooner, every day, makes better calls all year.

The fixed code is free, and the PDF below is every click, from the API request to your first question. If you can follow a recipe, you can do this.

It should work with ChatGPT too. The connection is built on MCP, an open standard that ChatGPT, Cursor and most AI tools now speak. I built and tested mine with Claude, so that is the path I can vouch for.

Toast was first because that's what I use. If you run something else, the offer to build yours is here.