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Toast (bread)

Sliced bread browned by heat until crisp.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
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Toast (restaurant POS)

A Boston-based company selling point-of-sale, payments and management software to restaurants.

First in use: c. 2011

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Restaurants now run on Toast.

Which meaning of Toast is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Toast (bread) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Toast (restaurant POS) arrived in 2011. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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Toast (bread)

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Duplicate · c. 2011

Toast (restaurant POS)

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