TouchBistro CFD vs Gordon Now
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TouchBistro CFD
This app displays customer orders in real-time as they are entered into a point-of-sale system. It helps reduce errors and enhance the customer experience with customizable branding and promotional messages. Operates on a local network for reliability.
- Real-time order confirmation
- Customizable branding
- Promotional message display
- Offline operation
- Works with TouchBistro POS
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TouchBistro CFD (Customer Facing Display) is an order confirmation system for over the counter and quick serve style restaurants. The customer facing helps to avoid errors and improve the customer experience by allowing your customer to view their order as the cashier is entering it into the TouchBistro Point of Sale. The customer facing display has many customization options, with support for custom colors, background images and logos, allowing you to match and improve your brand awareness. A customizable message of the day can also be used to present special offers to your customer to help maximize sales. You never have to worry about an internet outage with TouchBistro CFD, we operate on a local network which allows the customer facing display to communicate directly with the TouchBistro Point of Sale iPad. Customer Facing Display features: - customizable welcome message text and background image - customizable logo and brand colors - customizable thank you message text and background image - works with TouchBistro Point of Sale Supported Hardware: - iPad (recommend) - iPod Touch - iPhone
Gordon Now
Track your current food service delivery with real-time updates on estimated arrival, truck contents, and out-of-stock alerts. Access past orders and request chemical and beverage services. Links to online ordering are also provided.
- Real-time truck arrival estimates
- View truck contents
- Out-of-stock and short-ship alerts
- Access past orders
- Request chemical and beverage service
- Quick links to online ordering
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Got a Gordon Food Service business account? Gordon Now is your ordering app. Search the catalog or start from your order guide, then build your order and check out from your phone. See when your truck will get there, what is on it, and which items are out of stock or coming up short. Pull up past orders to check what you bought. Gordon Now is another way that Gordon Food Service is always at your table to help you run your operation. Shopping a Gordon Food Service Store for your home? Please use gfsstore.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Gordon Now at 2.6 against TouchBistro CFD's 2.1. Gordon Now also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 60 months) and review sentiment (26% vs 14%). TouchBistro CFD's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gordon Now holds the better App Store score, 2.6 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of TouchBistro CFD's written reviews are positive against 26% of Gordon Now's.
TouchBistro CFD ships an update every 60 months, Gordon Now every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TouchBistro CFD | Gordon Now |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (10 ratings) | 2.6 (40 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 25.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 40 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 60 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 100 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TouchBistro Inc. | Gordon Food Service, Inc. |
Customer experience
TouchBistro CFD
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In-app purchases
TouchBistro CFD
No in-app purchases
Gordon Now
No in-app purchases
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