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Commercial Toasters

Commercial Toasters in Toronto & Canada

A pop-up toaster suits a small diner or cafe toasting a handful of orders at a time, but once you're pushing bagels or English muffins through a busy breakfast rush, a conveyor toaster keeps a steady stream of toast moving without anyone standing over it. Hatco carries the deepest lineup here, from compact conveyor models up to the 2,000-slice-per-hour TQ3-2000H, plus its own TPT pop-up toasters and the TK-100 vertical toaster built for buns and English muffins. Star-Holman rounds out the conveyor side with its QCS Series, scaling up to the dual-belt DT14 at 2,000 slices an hour. Waring and APW Wyott both offer pop-up and conveyor options, and APW Wyott's M-95-2 bun grill toaster is built specifically for burger and sandwich buns rather than bread slices. Winco, Hamilton Beach, and Prince Castle round out the lineup with additional conveyor, pop-up, and vertical contact options. No matter where you're located — a diner in Toronto, a bagel shop in Mississauga, or right here in Vaughan — Phoenix Food Equipment gets the right commercial toaster to you across the GTA and nationwide across Canada.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions we hear from operators.

What's the difference between a pop-up toaster and a conveyor toaster?

A pop-up toaster — like Hamilton Beach's Model 24855, Waring's WCT704, or Hatco's TPT-120 — works the same way as a toaster at home: drop bread into the slots and it pops up once it's done, which suits a smaller kitchen making toast in small batches. A conveyor toaster feeds bread, bagels, or English muffins through on a moving belt instead, toasting continuously without anyone loading and unloading slots by hand, which is why busier operations — hotel breakfast buffets, bagel shops, diners running a steady stream of orders — usually choose one over a pop-up model. Hatco's TQ3 Series and Star-Holman's QCS Series both cover the conveyor format across a wide output range, from a compact countertop unit up to a high-volume floor model.

What is a bun toaster, and how is it different from a regular toaster?

A bun toaster — also called a contact or vertical toaster, like APW Wyott's M-95-2, Hatco's TK-100, or Prince Castle's CTS-W — toasts both cut sides of a burger bun, bagel, or English muffin at once by pressing them against heated plates, rather than toasting a flat slice of bread with radiant heat the way a pop-up or conveyor toaster does. That contact method also puts a light char on the bun in the process, which is part of why fast food counters and high-volume breakfast kitchens use them for buns specifically instead of running buns through a regular conveyor toaster. Output is measured in halves per hour instead of slices — APW Wyott's M-95-2 handles up to 1,000 bun halves an hour, while Hatco's TK-100 and Prince Castle's CTS-W both run up to 1,200 slices an hour for open-faced items.

How many slices per hour do I need from a commercial toaster?

Toaster output is measured in slices per hour (or bun halves per hour for a contact toaster), and matching that number to your actual volume matters more than picking the biggest unit available. A smaller breakfast spot or cafe making toast to order is usually fine with a compact conveyor unit like Hatco's TQ3-10 at 250 slices an hour or Star-Holman's QCS1-350 at 350 slices an hour, while a busy diner or bagel shop running a steady breakfast rush should look at something in the 600 to 1,000 slice-per-hour range. For a hotel banquet kitchen, high-volume commissary, or 24-hour diner, Hatco's TQ3-2000H and Star-Holman's DT14 both top out at 2,000 slices an hour — more than enough for continuous, uninterrupted output during peak service. Running under your toaster's rated capacity is always fine; running short during a rush is the more expensive mistake.