thru
thru is a drive-thru order-taking system for quick-service restaurants. It listens at the speaker, structures each order with modifications, offers an upsell, and sends the confirmed order to the kitchen display and POS. It also reports throughput, accuracy and service times by lane and location. It is sold to drive-thru operators, with a 30-day trial.
Last reviewed

- Best for
- Quick-service restaurants with a drive-thru, Multi-location drive-thru operators
- Pricing
- Subscription per lane
- Runs on
- Web
Who it is for
Quick-service restaurants with a drive-thru
Built around the drive-thru lane and kitchen handoff; the vendor says it is menu-agnostic and POS-agnostic.
Multi-location drive-thru operators
Dashboards show throughput, accuracy, service time and upsell performance by lane, location, shift and day.
What it does
Order capture at the speaker
Listens to the guest, structures the order in real time and confirms each item and modification before moving on.
Contextual upsell
Offers an upsell or a warm confirmation based on what was ordered.
Kitchen handoff
Pushes the verified order to the kitchen display and POS without re-entry.
Order taker screen
Shows the active order per lane with running total and item status.
Kitchen display across lanes
Shows active orders from all lanes with elapsed time and status (new, preparing, ready).
Real-time dashboards
Reports order throughput, accuracy rates, service times and upsell performance by lane, location, shift and day.
Completion logging
Logs order completion time, accuracy and a satisfaction signal for each order.
Pricing
- Pricing model
- Subscription per lane
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial, no credit card
There is no pricing page. An investor section of the homepage shows '$299 per lane / month (starting)' as an unconfirmed placeholder, so it is not treated as a published price. The demo form says no credit card and a 30-day free trial.
Where and how it runs
- Customers in
- United States
- Platforms
- Web
- Hardware
- The vendor says no new hardware is required and it works with the existing POS.
The vendor gives no sales territory. The market figures on the page are all for the US, so this is inferred from its target market and the entity name 'thru, Inc.'.
The company
- Company
- thru, Inc.
Security and support
- Support
- The site footer lists documentation, support, contact and status links. The vendor offers a 30-minute live demo.
Listing details
- Built for
- Restaurants
- Focus
- Food-specific
- Status
- Active
- Website
- thruglobal.com
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Compare thru
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What we could not confirm
These points were not confirmed when this page was written.
- Confirmed price (the $299 per lane figure is shown as an unconfirmed placeholder)
- Named POS and KDS integrations
- Whether the order taking is AI or human-assisted (the page does not say)
- Countries, languages, security certifications
- Founding year, headquarters, founders, funding, customers
- Contract terms
Sources
Facts on this page come from the pages below, checked on 29 September 2026. Prices and features change, so confirm with the vendor before you buy.
- Whole one-page site: product, flow, dashboards, trial, entity namehttps://www.thruglobal.com/