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Payments are the bulk of Toast's business, but the margins aren't great, and payments is hyper-competitive.

Some do it to diversify their businesses, while others just want to lock in customer loyalty.

Embedded finance is making it easier for companies large and small to add debit cards, payment options, loans, loyalty programs and other financial services.

The margins are always greener on the other side. And that company's now worth $115 billion.

Sound familiar? Square's playbook was similar: Start with hardware and layer on services.

Toast has 48,000 restaurant locations using its platform and its gross payments volume increased 17% to $25.4 billion in 2020.

That added up to $644.4 million in 2020, mostly from payments, with a small amount coming from working-capital loans that Toast services for its customers through a third-party bank.Toast provides point-of-sale hardware, payments and marketing tools to restaurants, but generates about 78% of its revenue from financial services.Toast raised its expected IPO price range Monday to $34 to $36, which could value it at as much as $18 billion, an indication that investors may be buying Toast's story. Wall Street seems happy to order fintech with a side of software. But its S-1 reveals a company mostly built on financial services. Take Toast: The Boston company, which is preparing to go public this week, is best known as the way you might order dinner on a given night. It seems like every tech company wants to be a fintech company these days.