As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates Gastronovi 3/5 and LINA TeamCloud 3/5 in POS & Checkout Systems. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 4 of the 6 judges pick Gastronovi and 2 pick LINA TeamCloud. Gastronovi scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Card payments & fees, Pricing transparency and Inventory, tables, staff & locations). LINA TeamCloud scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export, European sovereignty, Checkout, receipts & hardware, plus 1 more). Provenance — Gastronovi: EU-Made; LINA TeamCloud: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
Gastronovi and LINA TeamCloud divide the bench, and no overall winner emerges. Gastronovi leads payments and fees (6.3 vs 4.0), operations and locations (8.0 vs 7.0) and pricing transparency (7.2 vs 5.5), with six judges leaning its way on each. LINA TeamCloud leads sovereignty (5.0 vs 4.0, six judges), accounting and portability (6.2 vs 5.0, five judges) and, narrowly, fiscal compliance (6.0 vs 5.7; two lean LINA TeamCloud, four tie) and checkout and hardware (5.3 vs 4.8; three lean LINA TeamCloud, one Gastronovi, two tie). Of four published weighted totals, three favour Gastronovi — fee-conscious merchant 6.4 to 5.3, operations manager 5.8 to 5.5, skeptic 5.7 to 5.4 — and the tax adviser favours LINA TeamCloud 5.6 to 5.3. Gastronovi publishes licence tiers of 69, 59 and 49 € per month; LINA TeamCloud publishes Core ab 99 €, Pro ab 249 €, Max ab 399 € net per month.
Choose Gastronovi if
You run several branches or a franchise and want central articles, recipes and suppliers inherited to locations with local overrides — operations and locations leans Gastronovi six judges to none (8.0 vs 7.0).
Card fees decide your margin — payments and fees leans Gastronovi six judges to none (6.3 vs 4.0); its verdict credits card fees published per type and volume, while the LINA TeamCloud verdict found no published fee per card type, acquirer or payout timing.
You need published licence prices before signing — pricing transparency leans Gastronovi six judges to none (7.2 vs 5.5), with tiers of 69, 59 and 49 € per month and a 17 % annual discount.
Your priorities match the fee-conscious merchant, operations manager or skeptic profile — those published weighted totals favour Gastronovi at 6.4 vs 5.3, 5.8 vs 5.5 and 5.7 vs 5.4.
Choose LINA TeamCloud if
Your tax adviser must sign off the till — fiscal compliance leans LINA TeamCloud on two judges with four ties (6.0 vs 5.7); the verdict names both TSE routes, fiskaly's cloud TSE on Frankfurt servers and Swissbit hardware, with DSFinV-K interfaces and a GoBD-conform cash book.
You want clean hand-off to accounting or a later switch of systems — accounting and portability leans LINA TeamCloud on five judges with one tie (6.2 vs 5.0).
Procurement weighs vendor sovereignty heavily — the panel leans LINA TeamCloud six judges to none (5.0 vs 4.0); both are German legal entities, with LINA TeamCloud's subprocessor exposure listed as US CLOUD Act exposure and Gastronovi's listed as unknown.
You want a named hardware line at the till — checkout and hardware leans LINA TeamCloud three judges to one with two ties (5.3 vs 4.8); the verdict records judges split 4 to 6, the 6 scores crediting a real, named hardware line.
Your weighting mirrors the tax adviser's — that judge's published weighted total favours LINA TeamCloud, 5.6 vs 5.3.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Hospitality Operations Manager
Runs operations for a group of eight restaurants in three cities with two hundred staff. Wants one menu and price list pushed to every site with local exceptions, staff rights that stop a waiter voiding his own bills, reports that compare sites by the hour, and a works council and data protection officer who can sign off what the till records about employees and loyalty guests, and where it is hosted.
Gastronovi
This judge's pick
LINA TeamCloud
Criterion by criterion
Checkout, receipts & hardware
Gastronovi
The till runs on terminals, tablets and smartphones, issues digital receipts by QR code or email meeting the 2025 e-invoicing requirements, keeps a front-office offline mode when the internet drops, and a realtime status page for the platform exists. We found no public information on split bills, returns and cancellations, modifiers, a customer display, a printer and drawer compatibility list, or the limits of the offline mode — too many open questions at the terminal my waiters live on for a higher mark.
LINA TeamCloud
The captured pages show a working restaurant till — bills split and merged, editable table plans, a customer monitor, orders routed to kitchen and bar, printed and digital receipts — running on the vendor's own hardware line of 15.6-inch touchscreen stand tills, an RS10 handheld and receipt printers, with offline-capable hardware stated. I found no public information on modifiers and discounts, returns and cancellations, third-party hardware compatibility, or how long the till keeps selling when the internet is down.
Card payments & fees
Gastronovi
Gastronovi Pay is a fully integrated solution with girocard, VISA, Mastercard, AMEX, Klarna, Apple Pay and Google Pay, tap-to-pay on iPhone and Android without extra hardware, tip suggestions and automatic amount transfer to the terminal, at unusually open pricing: girocard from 0,10% and VISA/Mastercard from 0,70% by monthly volume, 10/8/7/6 Cent transaction tiers, AMEX 3,65%, with POS and e-commerce transactions pooled for better tiers. We found no public information on the acquirer or regulated payment institution behind the brand, payout timing, terminal rental cost, or terms for keeping my own acquirer on equal footing — the pages only note a merchant already bound to another POS payment provider can use Pay for e-commerce alone.
LINA TeamCloud
Payments look genuinely integrated for service — EC and credit cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, QR payment, digital tips, card payment at the table, and payment directly on the mobile till without a separate terminal, bundled in one contract. But I found no public information on the acquirer or payment institution, the fee per card type, payout timing or terminal cost — the pages say only "Keine monatlichen Grundgebühren – du zahlst nur die tatsächlichen Payment-Kosten" — so I cannot compute what cards cost me across eight sites.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
Gastronovi
For Germany a cloud TSE from fiskaly is offered at 14 € monatl. - 140 € jährl. including 10.000 transactions per month (9 € per further 10.000, capped at 50.000), a digital cash book is priced at 24 € monatl. per Betrieb, and Austria is covered by A-Trust with RKSV-compliant signing and FinanzOnline registration — both markets are named with providers and fees. We found no public information on the DSFinV-K export for a Kassennachschau, BSI certification, GoBD ten-year archiving, a Verfahrensdokumentation template, help with the § 146a AO registration, or what happens when the TSE fails.
LINA TeamCloud
Both TSE routes are offered with providers named — fiskaly cloud TSE on servers in Frankfurt am Main, and Swissbit hardware TSE in USB, SD and Micro-SD — alongside DSFinV-K-conform interfaces, a GoBD-conform cash book with an automatic daily closing in about five minutes, and named help with the cash-register reporting duty and the receipt-output duty. I found no public information on the BSI certificate, behaviour when a TSE fails, ten-year GoBD archiving, a procedure documentation template, or any second country's fiscal rules.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
Gastronovi
Nearly my whole group wishlist: menus managed centrally and inherited to branches with location-specific adjustments, unlimited sites run from a headquarters module for franchises at 119 € monatl. per Zentrale, realtime cross-location reporting on sales, orders and revenue, individual staff roles, a free kitchen monitor with course control, QR self-ordering, mobile stocktaking, purchasing through Transgourmet, Selgros and METRO, and vouchers redeemable across all locations. We found no public information on stock transfers between branches, an attributed log of cancellations and voids per employee — the control my works council asks about first — or forecasting built in rather than via a paid dashboard.
LINA TeamCloud
This is the strongest area for a group like mine: suppliers and purchase orders with automatic reordering, digital inventory counts, recipes and contribution margins, live stock, kitchen monitors with course control and station routing, self-ordering, roles and rights for staff, personnel with attendance and duty rosters, and articles, prices and menus managed centrally in the cloud with TSE activity monitored across locations. What I could not find is what my auditors ask about first: a log of cancellations and voids per employee, local price overrides per branch, stock transfers between sites, and cross-site hourly reporting.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
Gastronovi
My accountant gets a free DATEV format interface with cumulative and single-booking export, an ETL ADHOGA export with chart of accounts, and named integrations from hotel PMS systems to Nesto staff scheduling. We found no public information on a documented API or webhooks, DATEV Kassenarchiv online, separate booking of card payouts and fees for reconciliation, or a full export of articles, customers and fiscal journals at the end of the contract.
LINA TeamCloud
The DATEV handoff is unusually well documented — the cash book automatically generates the "DATEV Rechnungswesen pro" file, connects to DATEV MeinFiskal and the DATEV Kassenarchiv online, hands digital receipt images to the DATEV Belegbilderservice, and audit data can be exported quickly from a dashboard. I found no public information on a documented API with webhooks, separate booking of card payouts and fees, or a full export of articles, customers, sales and the fiscal journal when the contract ends; portability is stated only as the GDPR right over personal data.
European sovereignty
Gastronovi
The contract party is Gastronovi GmbH, Bremen, registered at Amtsgericht Bremen HRB 32767 HB, with an external German data protection officer at datenschutz nord GmbH, and the privacy policy names rapidmail GmbH in Freiburg for newsletters, Atlassian in Australia for the status page and LogMeIn as processors, each under EU standard contractual clauses available on request. We found no public information on where the till, staff and loyalty data of Gastronovi Office is hosted, on the processors behind the cloud TSE and payment processing, on the ownership structure, or on ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certifications — my DPO and works council could not sign off data location on these pages alone.
LINA TeamCloud
The legal notice names a German limited company (commercial register HRB 123712, Munich district court, Gräfelfing), a published Article 28 processing agreement exists, and the vendor states all data is stored in Germany with the fiskaly cloud TSE on Frankfurt servers — a basis my data protection officer can start with. But I found no public information naming the hosting provider, the payment institution, a subprocessor list or security certifications, and the privacy policy shows WhatsApp communication via Meta Platforms Ireland with a US parent inside the chain, so the whole chain my works council must approve is not visible.
Pricing transparency
Gastronovi
One page lets my controller price almost the whole year: till licences tiered 69/59/49 € by licence count with the tier-sorting rule published, every module in monthly and annual terms with a 17 % annual discount, the cloud TSE at 14 € monatl. including 10.000 transactions with the 9 € extra-block cap, card fees per type and volume, setup fees such as 99 € per Erfolgstarif module and 249 € for the headquarters module, a seasonal 25 € weekly licence, and a 3-month minimum with one month's notice. We found no public information on hardware and terminal prices, on support package prices beyond the 5-minute billing increment and Swiss support on request, or on VAT treatment — so the last few percent of the annual cost stays an estimate.
LINA TeamCloud
All three plans are public as net monthly prices — Core "ab 99€ / Monat", Pro "ab 249€ / Monat", Max "ab 399€ / Monat", each also priced without payment at 119 €, 369 € and 559 € per month — with included POS licences per package, "jede weitere Lizenz (stationär oder mobil) 49€", kiosks at 75€ and kitchen or bar monitors at 49€. I found no public information on TSE and hardware prices, the card transaction fees behind "du zahlst nur die tatsächlichen Payment-Kosten", or setup and support pricing; Enterprise is enquiry-only and "Änderungen der Preise und Konditionen bleiben vorbehalten", so I cannot compute my annual cost from public pages alone.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Hosting location
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Open source
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Data processing agreement
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Transfer impact assessment
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Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
As of 30 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 3/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 4 of the 6 judges pick Gastronovi and 2 pick LINA TeamCloud. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is Gastronovi or LINA TeamCloud European?
Gastronovi is European (EU-Made). LINA TeamCloud is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.