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iCHEF

iCHEF sells a restaurant iPad POS born in 2012 at a Taipei noodle shop, priced at NT$1,950 per month plus a NT$990 activation fee, with transaction-priced modules stacked on top: scan-to-order and online takeout from NT$600 per month for a 500-order tier, reservations at a NT$4 minimum per booking with payment processing from 2%, an online storefront whose page headline states payment processing from 2.2%, and a headquarters module from NT$1,000 per store per month with software fees prepaid twelve months. 91APP announced an all-cash purchase of 100% of the company for USD 32 million in November 2025, and by July 2026 the commercial registry shows every board seat appointed by 91APP's Taiwan entity, so the deal has effectively closed. The growth friction is not awareness. Every route on the site ends at the same exit: a lead form or the 02-27130120 extension 3 hotline, with a callback promised inside one business day. For a product under NT$2,000 per month, a field-sales-only acquisition path is hard to justify on unit economics, and the asset that would most reduce buyer risk is hidden: the service page states a seven-day free trial with a free experience account, while the pricing FAQ answers the same question with only free consultation and an on-site demo and defers the trial to a consultation, with no self-serve request route anywhere on the site. Several technical defects are sitting there ready to be fixed: the /zh-tw homepage sets its canonical to the root URL, the root declares an English alternate at /en that returns 404, the six hreflang links on the pricing page are written as Markdown syntax and are all invalid, and the address inside the site's structured data still points at a former Ren'ai Road office. The single biggest opportunity is to move the marketing centre of gravity from winning new venues to raising module attach rate across the installed base. iCHEF already publishes the billing logic for every module, yet no page is written for an existing merchant who wants to upgrade, there is no ROI calculator, and there is no self-serve activation, which leaves the cheapest available revenue growth sitting in a sales rep's calendar.