Clover Kiosk vs Lightspeed Restaurant

Clover Kiosk is a restaurant self-ordering system built around an all-in-one device. Customers browse menus, customize items, and enter orders on a 24-inch display. An 8-inch payment touchscreen and thermal receipt printer are integrated. The kiosk connects to Clover POS and pulls menu items and prices, while orders appear on Clover Kitchen Display System or print to a kitchen printer. Payments support contactless, chip, swipe, and debit PIN methods, with Clover Security end-to-end encryption specified. Wi-Fi, ethernet, and LTE provide connectivity. Restaurants can place the unit on a countertop, mount it to a wall, use an optional floor stand, or use a 100mm VESA mount. The floor stand has high and low settings. Clover lists Order Kiosk for ordering and payment on a Clover device, plus cross-selling and upselling options. The device costs $3,499, paid once, with a $34.95/mo per device software fee.

Lightspeed Restaurant is restaurant management software built around a point-of-sale and payments platform. It supports customizable menus, screens and floor plans, with online, tableside and QR-code ordering. Restaurants, hotels and multi-location operators can use the system for operations including inventory, reservations, tables, staff scheduling and sales reporting. The cloud-based POS can keep working offline, saving entered data locally and uploading it when connectivity returns; master-data maintenance and eCloud evaluations still require internet access. Its front end requires the Lightspeed Restaurant iPad app, while the back end can be managed on desktop and iPad. Lightspeed also says the POS can run in a browser on Mac, PC, Apple or Android devices. The Restaurant Integration Hub includes hundreds of third-party integrations, and accounting sync can send sales data to QuickBooks, Xero, Sage and other software. Plans start at $69/mo. Restaurant has no free plan or free trial listed; a demo option is presented instead.