What the other kitchen displays charge, and where we read it.
Three systems people ask us about, with the price each one publishes, the page we read it on, and the day we read it. Where we could not read a price on a company’s own page, this page says that instead of guessing.
Published prices
What each of these charges.
| System | What they charge for a kitchen display | Where that number came from |
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| MiniRestaurants (that is us) | $19.99 per screen, per month One price at every screen count, and a paused screen is $0. | This page. Our own price. |
| Fresh KDS | $20 per screen, per month That is the Essentials plan, or $16 per screen billed yearly. Their Premium plan is $27 per screen each month, or $22 billed yearly. | Read from fresh.technology, their own published page. Checked 19 August 2026. They print it as: “Fresh KDS is priced per screen. Essentials is $20 per screen each month, or $16 per screen billed yearly.” |
| Square KDS | $20 per device, per month That rate needs a Square Premium subscription. On Square Plus it is $30 per device each month. Both figures are Square KDS only and sit on top of whatever the Square plan itself costs. | Read from squareup.com, their own published page. Checked 19 August 2026. They print it as: “$20 per month per device with Square Premium or $30 month per device with Square Plus.” |
| Toast KDS | Not published hereWe could not read it. Toast's pricing page answered every request we made with HTTP 403, in a plain fetch and in an ordinary browser alike, so we never saw a number on Toast's own page. We will not print one we got somewhere else. Ask Toast, and hold their answer next to this page. | Attempted at pos.toasttab.com, their own published page. Checked 19 August 2026. |
Every price below was read on the company's own published page on the date shown beside it.
MiniRestaurants (that is us)
- What they charge for a kitchen display
- $19.99 per screen, per month One price at every screen count, and a paused screen is $0.
- Where that number came from
- This page. Our own price.
Fresh KDS
- What they charge for a kitchen display
- $20 per screen, per month That is the Essentials plan, or $16 per screen billed yearly. Their Premium plan is $27 per screen each month, or $22 billed yearly.
- Where that number came from
- Read from fresh.technology, their own published page. Checked 19 August 2026. They print it as: “Fresh KDS is priced per screen. Essentials is $20 per screen each month, or $16 per screen billed yearly.”
Square KDS
- What they charge for a kitchen display
- $20 per device, per month That rate needs a Square Premium subscription. On Square Plus it is $30 per device each month. Both figures are Square KDS only and sit on top of whatever the Square plan itself costs.
- Where that number came from
- Read from squareup.com, their own published page. Checked 19 August 2026. They print it as: “$20 per month per device with Square Premium or $30 month per device with Square Plus.”
Toast KDS
- What they charge for a kitchen display
- Not published hereWe could not read it. Toast's pricing page answered every request we made with HTTP 403, in a plain fetch and in an ordinary browser alike, so we never saw a number on Toast's own page. We will not print one we got somewhere else. Ask Toast, and hold their answer next to this page.
- Where that number came from
- Attempted at pos.toasttab.com, their own published page. Checked 19 August 2026.
These are list prices for a kitchen display, and that is all they are. None of them includes what you pay for the rest of the system it plugs into, and a per-screen price means different things in a kitchen running one screen and a kitchen running six. Work out your own number before you use ours.
If a price on this page goes more than 30 days without somebody re-reading the source, this site stops building. That is the mechanism, not a good intention: the page cannot quietly keep showing you a number nobody has checked.
Prices change and we are not their press office. Every source above is linked. Open it, and if it disagrees with us, believe them and tell us.
The chooser
Three questions, and an honest answer.
This is a real decision tool, which means it can tell you to buy something else, and on most of the paths through it, it does. No email, no gate, nothing to submit — the answers are already on this page.
Answer all three and what we would tell you appears here. Every possible answer is also written out below, so nothing here is hidden behind the questions.
Every answer this gives, including the ones that send you elsewhere.
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Not us
Buy something else. We do not do that yet.
Label and ticket printing, text messages to guests and ingredient counts are all on our plan and none of them is built. If one of those is the reason you are shopping, a system that has it today beats a system that promises it, and we would rather tell you now than take thirty days of your attention first.
You get this answer when label or ticket printing, guest text messages or ingredient counts are why you are buying.
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Not us
Buy your POS company's display.
We are not your POS company and we are not trying to become it. If one vendor, one bill and one support number is the requirement, the display your POS company sells will meet it and we will not. That is a real reason to buy something else, and it is not a reason we will argue you out of.
You get this answer when you need orders on a screen rather than the things we have not built yet, and you want one company for the POS and the screens.
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Us
This is the one thing we are built for.
Orders already on the screen stay on the screen when the connection goes, every bump is recorded, and it syncs when the connection comes back. That is the whole architecture rather than a feature on a list, and it is the reason to pick us over something cheaper.
You get this answer when you need orders on a screen rather than the things we have not built yet, a second vendor is fine with you, and the screens have to keep taking bumps through an outage.
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Either way
Honestly? Any of them will do. Decide on price.
You need orders on a screen, you do not need the features we have not built, and an outage is survivable in your kitchen. That is the case where our main argument does not apply to you, so compare the numbers in the table above and pick the cheapest one that runs on the tablets you already own.
You get this answer when you need orders on a screen rather than the things we have not built yet, a second vendor is fine with you, and your kitchen can work off paper until the connection comes back.
Still think it is us?
Our price is on this page, in a table, with no form in front of it.