L’Osteria was founded in 1999 in Nuremberg and has grown into one of Germany’s largest and fastest-growing casual dining brands. The Munich-based company is known for its iconic 45-centimeter pizzas, a great value for the money as well as the characteristic “LA FAMIGLIA” atmosphere in remarkable locations. Today the FR L’Osteria SE runs over 200 restaurants in eleven European countries through a mix of company-owned sites, joint ventures, and franchise partnerships.
In 2023, the investor McWin became the majority shareholder and continues to drive growth ever since, especially on an international level. In 2025, L’Osteria not only opened 27 new restaurants, a new company record, but also acquired the majority stake in the British brand Pizza Pilgrims, thereby laying the foundation for an Italian brand platform. The company’s goal is to become the “European Champion in Casual Dining” by 2030.
From day one, every new restaurant needs stable guest Wi-Fi, reliable POS and card payment systems, kitchen and office connectivity, and protection against power outages. For the network side, L’Osteria’s internal IT team works together with BavariaCloud GmbH.
Building a unified network across a continuously growing, multi-country restaurant brand meant solving five problems:
BavariaCloud GmbH developed the network architecture together with L’Osteria’s internal IT team as a standardized reference blueprint, used unchanged at every restaurant regardless of size. The approach is hybrid: existing third-party gateways stay in place, and switching, Wi-Fi, and (at newly opened sites) power protection run on UniFi.
Standardized reference design:
Every restaurant gets the same baseline set of UniFi switches and access points, so new sites go live in hours instead of days.
Central, self-hosted UniFi OS Server:
BavariaCloud GmbH runs its own UniFi OS Server in its data center instead of a public cloud. From there, the team manages and monitors every restaurant from one console, and L’Osteria keeps full control over its own data.
Coexistence with third-party gateways:
The existing gateway layer stays untouched, so established security and contracts remain in place. UniFi takes over switching, Wi-Fi, and power protection behind it.
License-free scaling:
UniFi has no recurring per-device licensing fees, so operating costs stay predictable even as L’Osteria keeps opening new restaurants.
BavariaCloud GmbH is an IT solutions and managed service provider based in Luhe-Wildenau in Bavaria, Germany. A team of more than 20 IT specialists with over 20 years of experience supports businesses of every size, including start-ups, mid-sized companies, large enterprises, and public institutions. Services cover managed services with a service desk, IT infrastructure and networking, cloud services and hosting from data centers operated in Germany, Microsoft 365, cybersecurity, and IT consulting. Together with L’Osteria’s internal IT team, BavariaCloud plans, builds, and operates the UniFi network at every restaurant and runs the central UniFi OS Server in its data center in Germany.
Lino Bäumler, BavariaCloud GmbH, point of contact for UniFi networks
Every L’Osteria restaurant follows the same reference design, developed jointly by BavariaCloud GmbH and L’Osteria’s internal IT team, whether it’s a small city-center site or a large restaurant with an outdoor terrace.
Across the 200+ restaurants running this standard setup, the fleet-wide totals look like this (rounded):
| Model | Quantity | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| PoE switching: USW Pro 48 PoE | 400+ | Standard switch pairing per restaurant |
| Wireless: UniFi Nano HD / U7 Pro XG | 600+ | Indoor Wi-Fi for dining room, kitchen, office |
| Wireless: UniFi Flex HD / U7 Outdoor | 400+ | Outdoor Wi-Fi for terrace & outdoor areas |
| Power protection: UniFi 2U UPS | 20+ | Power protection at newly opened restaurants |
| Management: Self-hosted UniFi OS Server | 1 | Central management console at BavariaCloud GmbH |
Total UniFi devices deployed fleet-wide: 1,420+ switches, access points, and UPS units.
Third-party gateways stay in service at every site and aren’t counted here.
Dream Machine Pro10G Cloud Gateway
Pro 48 PoEA 48-port, Layer 3 switch capable of high-power PoE++ output.
UPS 2UUniFi-managed rackmount UPS with battery backup and graceful shutdown support.
UniFi 5G BackupCompact PoE-powered 5G RedCap antenna system with versatile mounting that plugs into any UniFi PoE port to provide automatic internet backup.In August 2025, L’Osteria acquired a majority stake in Pizza Pilgrims, the UK’s Neapolitan pizza brand founded in 2012 with more than 25 restaurants across Britain. Pizza Pilgrims is now preparing to open its first restaurants in Germany, and BavariaCloud GmbH is extending its UniFi blueprint to this second brand within the L’Osteria group.
For Pizza Pilgrims’ expansion into Germany, BavariaCloud GmbH and the group’s internal IT team adapted the reference architecture instead of copying the L’Osteria design one-to-one. The stack is now fully native UniFi, including the gateway:
Pizza Pilgrims’ management model also differs from L’Osteria’s: instead of one centrally hosted UniFi OS Server, each restaurant’s UDM Pro runs its own local UniFi OS Server. All locations are grouped into a single UniFi Fabric, managed through UniFi Site Manager (UniFi’s cloud-based web UI at unifi.ui.com). BavariaCloud GmbH gets one consolidated view across every site, without running a dedicated on-premises or self-hosted controller for the brand.
U7 Pro XGCeiling-mounted 6-stream WiFi 7 AP with 10/5/2.5/1 GbE support.
U7 OutdoorAll-weather WiFi 7 AP with 4 spatial streams
nanoHDCompact, ceiling-mounted WiFi 5 AP with 6 spatial streams ideal for smaller offices.
FlexHDSleek, indoor/outdoor WiFi 5 AP with 6 spatial streams designed for mesh applications.As L’Osteria continues its growth toward becoming the “European Champion in Casual Dining” by 2030, the UniFi 2U UPS will become a standard component at every location, not just at new openings.
With Pizza Pilgrims now following its own native UniFi blueprint alongside L’Osteria’s, BavariaCloud GmbH operates two parallel management models: a centrally hosted UniFi OS Server for L’Osteria, and a UniFi Fabric of independently managed Dream Machine Pro consoles for Pizza Pilgrims, unified through UniFi Site Manager. Either way, every new restaurant follows a defined reference design and is fully integrated into the group’s Europe-wide infrastructure from its opening day.
Contact
BavariaCloud GmbH
An der Bahn 30
92706 Luhe-Wildenau
Germany
