topic Re: Item Labels in Restaurant Operations

Item Labels

AveryWard — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:15:51 GMT

Following up with a post regarding item labels. A post from March 25th 2022 from Carrisa from toast below. This feature will be a game changer for our operation and really hope this is rolling out VERY soon.

“Hi Toast Community, it's Carrisa here with Toast 🍞

Due to a recent post that a customer shared about item labels, I wanted to share this AWESOME update from the Toast Product that's working on improvements and wanted to give you visibility. Check out the update below:

You asked, we listened!
In the next few months, we’ll be rolling out a few new labels which will help address customer feedback that we’ve heard regarding label size, format, and printing speed. Our new labels are designed smaller to meet the needs of various use cases like drink cups and pizza boxes which have surface area constraints. With needs like those in mind, we’ll be supporting 1.5 x 3 inch, 3 x 1.5 inch, and 2 x 3 inch label sizes.

In addition to smaller sized labels, our new designs are simpler and allow customers to configure the top of their labels to display either guest name or order # prominently for an optimal workflow.

Due to the support of a smaller label, these new designs will not include the option to add a logo, and we anticipate this change will help with any printing lags that are being experienced today.

However, for those customers who wish to continue using our current label solution with a logo, that option will still be supported and available.If you’re as excited about these upcoming changes as we are, please note that when the new labels are rolled out, you’ll be able to use them right away since they’ll be compatible with existing Toast-supported label printers and label paper rolls - no need to update hardware or throw out existing paper supply!

Have questions? Leave them in the comments below.”

Re: Item Labels

josh212 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:53:03 GMT

any idea what the change in cost is going to be

Re: Item Labels

karens — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:17:37 GMT

Will this require a monthly software charge as well as the fee for the Toast label printer?

Re: Item Labels

James_Habisohn — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:57:45 GMT

YES!

We are needing a Drink label that is smaller than 58mm, please let me know if I can test this out with the Epson L90 asap, I have alot of experience in the manual configuration of these printers and already have 58mm/40mm paper and a lab enviorment ready to go.

Re: Item Labels

jtmiller09 — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 04:37:32 GMT

Did the option for smaller labels ever happen? We just went live with Toast last week and for a Pizzeria, the big Epson l90 sticky labels are useless and very expensive.

Re: Item Labels

James_Habisohn — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:52:07 GMT

No timeliness yet... very soon didn't happen.

We still need this for our drink concept asap.

Re: Item Labels

au79teahouse — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:27:16 GMT

I have seen places which Toast POS are able to print out 1x3 labels. The way they set it up is to use Epson TM-L90 as their primary kitchen printer for work tickets. I have not tested it out personally but it's possible.

Re: Item Labels

josh212 — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 05:08:45 GMT

This should be a no-brainer, as when I ran starbucks' and especially Times square flagship we tested out the L90's for drinks. Although perosnally and what we saw was the linerless labels werent good for high volume, as the liner lables allow you to pull one at a time, keepng a print queue or allow you to rip off a whole string of drinks without haviing them stick together

Re: Item Labels

rcmck — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 23:34:16 GMT

Looks like they are finally coming from the release notes for 2.69

Re: Item Labels

James_Habisohn — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:58:46 GMT

Where are you receiving the Release notes! I dont get these let me know

This is interesting.... I have some L100s but mostly L90s. Will ask my rep and will be testing asap.

I think keeping the large format paper will work better, I was worried about sourcing different sizes and gathering spacers.

Re: Item Labels

Rob — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 17:54:29 GMT

Hey @James_Habisohn , you can find the release notes with the link below!

Release Notes

Re: Item Labels

rcmck — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:01:40 GMT

Here https://doc.toasttab.com/doc/relnotes/devPortalTechRelnotesIntro.html and here https://central.toasttab.com/s/article/Release-Notes (but this one is going away) also like to check the API release notes which can give clues to upcoming features like the credit card surcharge.