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 Skeptic
Has seen a "free" till paid for twice over in card fees, printers that work with one vendor's software only, a TSE charged by the year on top of the licence, and a cancelled contract that left ten years of fiscal journals behind a login. Reads "100 % finanzamtkonform" with no TSE provider named and "DATEV-ready" with no export format — and asks what leaving would cost.
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, shows a digital table plan, and the front office keeps data locally when the internet drops — though we found no public information on how long offline operation lasts, which payments work, or how sync resolves. We also found no public information on split bills, returns and cancellations, a customer display, or a list of supported receipt printers, drawers and scanners; the kitchen monitor is included in the licence but hardware is charged separately.
LINA TeamCloud
The till is real and runs on the vendor's own hardware — a 15.6-inch touchscreen stand terminal, an RS10 handheld for table service, receipt printers, payment terminals — with a customer display, split and merged bills, table plans, an e-receipt and the hybrid claim of offline-capable hardware with master data in the cloud. An FAQ question about an internet outage exists, but we found no public information on how long the till keeps selling offline or which payments survive it, nor on returns and cancellations, a hardware compatibility list, or the terms to rent or buy the devices.
Card payments & fees
Gastronovi
Fees are published per card type — Girocard "0,10%" down to "0,04%" by monthly volume, VISA and Mastercard "0,70%" down to "0,50%", American Express "3,65%", Klarna "1,5% + 0,20 €", plus per-transaction tiers from "10 Cent" to "6 Cent" — with the amount passed to the terminal automatically, tap to pay on a phone and tip suggestions. But we found no public information naming the acquirer or regulated payment institution behind Gastronovi Pay, on payout timing, or on terminal prices, and the only hint that a merchant may keep another POS payment provider is a note that Gastronovi Pay can then be used for e-commerce alone.
LINA TeamCloud
Card, girocard, credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, QR payment and 100+ payment types are integrated, even directly on the mobile till without a separate terminal, with digital tips and the pitch "Ein Vertrag, ein System". But we found no public information naming the acquirer or payment institution behind LINA Pay, the per-transaction fee is not published — "du zahlst nur die tatsächlichen Payment-Kosten" is a promise, not a number — and payout timing or the option to bring one's own terminal are likewise undocumented.
Fiscal compliance (TSE, DSFinV-K, RKSV)
Gastronovi
The German cloud TSE is priced with its provider named — fiskaly at "14 € monatl. - 140 € jährl." including 10,000 transactions a month and "9 €" per further 10,000 — receipts are signed KassenSichV-conform, a digital cash book is sold as a module, and Austria is covered by an A-Trust signature licence with FinanzOnline registration. On the BSI certificate, a DSFinV-K export for the Kassennachschau, GoBD storage for ten years, help with the § 146a AO registration, a Verfahrensdokumentation template and what happens when the TSE fails, we found no public information.
LINA TeamCloud
The TSE providers are named — fiskaly's cloud TSE on Frankfurt servers and Swissbit hardware, with the five-year certificate expiry disclosed — beside DSFinV-K interfaces, a GoBD and KassenSichV cashbook, a daily closing "in fünf Minuten", and support for the Kassenmeldepflicht and Belegausgabepflicht. Before I trust an audit I still want what the captured pages do not show: the BSI certificate, a procedure for a failed TSE, the ten-year archive statement, a Verfahrensdokumentation template, and we found no public information on exporting the fiscal journal once the contract ends.
Inventory, tables, staff & locations
Gastronovi
This is the strongest area: central articles, recipes and suppliers inherited to branches with local overrides, purchase orders through Transgourmet, METRO and other portals, mobile stocktaking, ingredient-priced recipes, a kitchen monitor with course control, QR self-ordering, user roles, cross-location reports and a priced control-centre module for franchises with unlimited locations. We found no public information on a per-employee log of cancellations and voids, on cash differences per employee, or on stock transfers between branches.
LINA TeamCloud
The Warenwirtschaft runs deep — suppliers, automatic reordering against target stock, digital inventories, recipes, contribution margins, live stock, a CHEFS CULINAR link — beside kitchen monitors with course control, self-ordering, table plans, roles and rights, and personnel with schedules and payroll. Multi-site appears as monitoring of all TSEs and activities across Standorte; we found no public information on a per-employee log of cancellations and voids, cash differences per staff member, or cross-site reporting.
Accounting handoff, DATEV & data export
Gastronovi
A free DATEV format interface with cumulative and single-booking export and a free ETL to ADHOGA with an account framework are named, alongside automated accounting exports and a long, priced list of integrations from hotel PMS to HR. We found no public information on a documented API or webhooks, on a full export of articles, customers and fiscal journals when the contract ends, or on access to past data after cancellation — the question that decides what leaving would cost.
LINA TeamCloud
The DATEV handoff is genuinely deep: an automatically generated "DATEV Rechnungswesen pro" file, the DATEV Kassenarchiv online via MeinFiskal, the Belegbilderservice, and preconfigured exports from the GoBD cashbook. But the portability right in the privacy policy covers personal data only, and we found no public information on a merchant API with webhooks or on a full export of articles, customers, sales and the fiscal journal when the contract ends — the question that decides what leaving costs.
European sovereignty
Gastronovi
The contracting entity is Gastronovi GmbH in Bremen with a Bremen commercial register entry and a German VAT number, the external data protection officer sits in Bremen, and three subprocessors are named with safeguards — rapidmail in Freiburg, Atlassian in Australia under EU standard contractual clauses, LogMeIn as an Article 28 processor with the clauses. But we found no public information on where Gastronovi Office and its cloud-TSE and payment chain are hosted, and no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification is stated.
LINA TeamCloud
A German GmbH with a Munich commercial register number, storage in Germany with the fiskaly cloud TSE on Frankfurt servers, and a published Art. 28 data processing agreement — that much the pages prove. But the hosting stays with an unnamed "externer Dienstleister", no subprocessor list is published, WhatsApp communication runs through Meta Platforms Ireland with its US parent, and we found no public information on security certifications.
Pricing transparency
Gastronovi
Module prices, scaling rules, TSE transaction costs, setup fees, card fees, minimum terms and notice are published — the till from "69 € monatl." with volume tiers for further licences, the cloud TSE at "14 € monatl. - 140 € jährl.", Mehrbetrieb setup at a one-off "249 €", a three-month minimum term with one month's notice — which is more than most vendors show. The gaps are hardware and service: we found no published price for terminals, monitors or printers, none for the support packages (Swiss support is quoted on request by email), and no statement on VAT treatment.
LINA TeamCloud
Three packages with net monthly prices are public — Core 99 €, Pro 249 €, Max 399 €, each with its without-payment figure of 119 €, 369 € or 559 € — plus licence counts per package, additional licences at 49 €, kiosks at 75 € and kitchen or bar monitors at 49 €. But the TSE, hardware, the actual card fees, setup and support stay unpriced, Enterprise is "anfragen", and only an FAQ topic hints at a minimum term without stating its length.
Sovereignty, side by side
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Legal entity
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Hosting location
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Hosting options
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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.