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PAR Technology helps restaurant chains, franchisees and retailers take orders, run stores and keep customers coming back. PAR POS handles point-of-sale operations, PAR Pay processes payments, and Punchh supports loyalty and marketing. Customers pay software subscription and support fees, plus transaction-based payment-processing fees. Together, subscription services generate most of PAR’s revenue; customers also buy hardware and pay PAR to install, maintain and support their systems.
McDonald’s and its franchisees are a major source of business, so their technology purchases matter materially to PAR. Subscription revenue also depends on how many customer locations keep using its services, while hardware sales depend partly on chains’ equipment replacement cycles. PAR relies on third-party cloud infrastructure to deliver its software, and privacy laws restrict how it can collect, use and store personal data.
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PAR's results hinge on restaurants adopting technology and major chains spending on it, including unlisted Dairy Queen, which accounted for 7% of PAR's 2025 revenue.
Toast competes with PAR for restaurants' spending on checkout systems, operating software, digital ordering, loyalty, payment processing and hardware. Watch restaurants' adoption of more of Toast's integrated platform to gauge competition for the same technology budgets PAR targets.
NCR Voyix Corporation competes with PAR for restaurant and retail operators buying cloud software, checkout hardware, payment processing and support. Its recurring revenue from the Voyix Commerce Platform is worth watching for progress in selling operators this combined offering.
McDonald's and its franchisees buy PAR's restaurant technology and support, accounting for 21% of PAR's 2025 revenue. McDonald's earns restaurant sales and franchise fees; its news on restaurant technology spending matters directly to this large source of PAR revenue.
Lightspeed Commerce Inc. competes with PAR for restaurants and retailers buying checkout, ordering, loyalty and payment software, but focuses more on smaller merchants. Its software subscription and payments revenue offers a view of that customer group rather than PAR's large-chain business.
Yum! Brands' restaurant system buys PAR technology and support, accounting for 8% of PAR's 2025 revenue, down from 13% in 2023. Yum! earns fees from franchisees that fund restaurant equipment and reinvest in their businesses, making their technology spending the relevant news for PAR.
Global Payments competes with PAR to help restaurants and retailers take customer payments and run their businesses through cloud checkout and management software. Watch its rollout of the Genius brand across its checkout businesses; merchants pay it transaction fees as well as software subscription and licensing fees.
Fiserv's Clover competes for restaurants buying checkout systems with built-in payment processing against PAR's restaurant operating software and payment services, though Fiserv's business is much broader.
Agilysys, Inc. competes with PAR to sell checkout software to foodservice and entertainment venues, but focuses more on hotels, resorts and casinos.
Agilysys, Inc. earningsAGYS
Agilysys’ report will show whether hotels, resorts and casinos keep buying checkout software, offering a read on demand in part of the foodservice and entertainment venue market PAR Technology serves.
Watch demand in Agilysys’ hotel, resort and casino business, rather than treating all its customers as one group. More purchasing by these venues would show that this slice of operators is investing in checkout technology; weaker purchasing would signal caution among them and a softer read for PAR’s related venue markets, not a direct measure of large-chain restaurant spending.
Toast, Inc. earningsTOST
Toast’s report will show whether restaurants are adding more checkout, operating software, ordering and payment services on one platform, revealing where the technology budgets it competes for with PAR Technology are going.
Look for evidence that Toast’s platform adoption is widening and customers are using more of its integrated services. Broader adoption and deeper use would show a competitor capturing more restaurant technology budgets, increasing pressure on PAR for the same spending; slower adoption or little expansion would point to less momentum for Toast, not prove stronger demand for PAR.
McDonald's Corporation earningsMCD
McDonald's’ report will show whether the customer that accounted for 21% of PAR Technology’s 2025 revenue, and its franchisees, remain able and willing to buy PAR’s restaurant technology and support.
Read McDonald’s restaurant sales and franchise business together with any indication that it continues investing in restaurant technology. Steady sales and franchise-fee income alongside continued technology spending would support demand for PAR’s products from this major customer; weaker restaurant or franchisee economics that constrain investment would put PAR’s revenue from McDonald’s and its franchisees under pressure.
PAR Technology Corp. earningsThis company
PAR Technology’s report will show whether restaurant and retail customers keep adding its subscription and payment services, and whether that recurring revenue is improving the economics of the business.
Read active sites and subscription-service revenue together, then check subscription gross margin—the share of subscription revenue left after direct service costs. Growth in both sites and revenue with a rising margin would show PAR is expanding its customer base while serving it more efficiently. If revenue grows mainly through acquisitions or price increases, active sites add little, or the margin weakens, the organic base or quality of that growth remains in question.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track how much consumers spend at stores, and stronger or weaker spending can change restaurant and retail customers’ sales, PAR’s active sites and bookings, and purchases of its subscription software and hardware.
Read stronger retail sales as a possible lift to restaurant and retail customers’ sales, supporting PAR’s active sites, subscription fees and hardware orders; weaker sales point to pressure on those customer sales and possible delays or reductions in sites, bookings and purchases.
