Morning folks. A LinkedIn alert popped up on my phone about a Montreal platform getting bought out, so I decided to click and see the details. What interested me the most was the focus on what you are really paying once per-cover fees are converted to local currency. We moan about VAT and hidden fees in the ENG restaurant scene, but seeing the exact same painful math applied to a different currency puts things into perspective. I am very satisfied with the read because it doesn’t just list software, it actually explains the dirty reality of consolidation waves crossing borders. It made me realize that relying on a cheap platform today might just mean paying through the nose tomorrow once the big corporates take over the market.