Catering delivery platform DeliverThat announced last week that it had become a Toast integration partner, a move aimed at bridging front-of-house operations and off-premises fulfillment.
Darien Terrell, DeliverThat CEO and president, said joining the Toast Partner Ecosystem gives brands the flexibility to scale catering and delivery operations smoothly within their existing Toast infrastructure. The move is part of Toast’s larger play to offer an all-in-one solution for restaurant operators, he added.
“We’ve always had the goal of ease of use and accessibility for our restaurant operators, and with Toast being such a large player in the space, we weren’t really able to accomplish either of those without having a full-fledged partnership with Toast,” Terrell said. “It’s not easy to take a catering order from your POS system or wherever you might receive it, and then manually upload it into our system.”
Darien Terrell, DeliverThat CEO and President
Prior to the partnership, the Toast delivery system allowed users to leverage integrations with delivery services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats, Terrell said. However, catering is a “different beast” and he said the DeliverThat integration provides operators with a way to treat catering deliveries with the care and attention they deserve.
Restaurants using Toast can now designate orders for DeliverThat dispatch. This feature eliminates manual order entry, which will ideally reduce errors and optimize delivery logistics, all from within a restaurant’s Toast POS system.
“So, instead of using a small order fulfillment DSP, [Toast clients] are able to now leverage a large order fulfillment [platform] that’s able to accommodate the last-mile delivery on behalf of their brand and represent them, in a way,” Terrell said.
Integrating with Toast has been on DeliverThat’s radar for years, Terrell said. Talks between the two companies started several years ago, even before the Coronavirus pandemic boosted the industry. Those discussions gained momentum in 2024.
“It was a very concentrated effort here in the last part of 2025 to get this done so that it can be implemented, onboarded and educated in Q1 of 2026 for operators, so that they can capitalize on the catering growth that they’re going to experience here as soon as Q2 ticks up,” Terrell said.
Last year proved transformative for the catering delivery scene, according to a DeliverThat representative. Throughout 2025, a trend emerged of brands looking to regain control of their first-party and direct-to-consumer business.
Terrell said partnering with Toast opens DeliverThat to serve more local operators and smaller markets by capitalizing on the platform’s existing client base.
“Toast consists of a lot of local operators, not your multi-hundred-unit operations,” Terrell said. “This is your local coffee shop or your local catering commissary. This allows us to partner with them and give them the same level of treatment that an enterprise brand would receive.”
Terrell said he hoped the DeliverThat-Toast partnership would help propel restaurants to maintain and enhance their first-party experience.
“They’re able to offer their customers better pricing, instead of letting a third party dictate the pricing that they have to offer,” Terrell said of operators using DeliverThat dispatch through Toast POS. “Owning that entire user experience is what I believe [will be] the most important thing that any operator at any size can do in 2026 for your catering orders.”
