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Ronald, I thought you were off pleasuring yourself as we hadnt heard from you in a while
I have noticed that everytime the MMs hear good news on the horizon the MMs shake the tree.
Drax, taken from RNS
"I have also spent time visiting some of our existing restaurant partners and it has been great to meet restaurant owners who are now regularly seeing diners seated at their restaurant via BigDish. One particular restaurant recorded over 600 diners in April, which was a BigDish record."
Yes.... EU, they speak English in the cities that will be of interest. Then again it wont matter with the translation software available. Once the UK is in place I see no reason why they couldnt expand beyond. The short term holders wont be able to see that far though.
If you think being called a `small minded bean counter` is an insult you should hear me when I get rattled.
And if you`re using that as an excuse to not carry on discussing the subject then I take that as you not being able to come back with a reasoned response to what I have explained.
Its not a secret that restaurants can, if they want to, take themselves off the app temporarily due to higher tourist footfall.
Its also not a secret that the person that was concentrating on recruiting restaurants, Sanj, is now 100% focused on recruiting personnel, which is the right thing to do at this stage with the amount of bodies on the payroll. When the managers start doing their stuff the numbers of rest` will increase rapidly.
All you have to do to understand is look beyond the end of your nose at the big picture, everything is being geared up for Q4 hyper growth, so expect more significant developments in Q3.
I really feel you have lost an argument when you resort to insults and
no wish to discuss this further with your very uncouth self
1. Its July 18th, its summer season, tourists will want to eat food, some of them will eat in restaurants, some restaurants will see an increase in footfall, some of them will see that as an opportunity to make hay while the sun shines so they `unlive` themselves on the Bigdish platform....for now!
2. Bigdish are deep in the process of recruitment in several areas of the company including territory managers and technical experts, so take up has been slower of late because the team are focused on priorities with the bodies they have got.
Its the right thing to do at this stage of building a UK wide dining app/website, they have to get other things lined up to grow at hyper speed in Q4.
If they focused all their efforts on increasing rest` numbers at this stage just to please some small minded bean counters they will never build the company to the size they want it to be.....simples really!
If we deduct the 47 we had in Bournemouth b/4 we started that means
we have 64 sign ups active, using Arts figures
not impressive with two reps and much talk about how well we are progressing.
Reality is so different to the illusion.
111 as of today. Another 3 have disappeared/delisted/gone into hiding/ whatever.
If we have only 114 on the app then we are losing them at a fast rate
drax, I don`t think we are losing restaurants at an alarming rate, thats just your way to try to talk down the company share price to get shares at a lower price.
Rephrase the question.
Bottmzup
Do you think that is the reason we seem to be losing rest. at an alarming rate?
They have to offer 50% twice a week....wow! Is that twice as in two days, two diners, two slots...whatever it might be, so what? So the rest of the week they can reap the rewards of having bums on seats at 25%, 20%, 2 for 1 etc
Do your own research and stop trying to spin the lie that restaurants are against a deal that requires them to add a couple of 50% discounts in any full week, it wouldn`t matter a jot!
Scottman, have a look at the deal details on the app or website to get an idea of the variations of deals on offer, click on the `details` tab alongside each restaurant.
ps have a look at how many have `sold out` slots aswell.
So what your saying Botomz is that this isn’t actually yield management. Restaurants are just offering as they please?
They have to offer 50% at least twice a week
Do your research rather than trying to put your own spin on it to sound appealing
Its this that is losing restaurants and stopping more from using the platform
Bournemouth numbers have dropped from dish taking over table pouncer another sure sign The Bigdish concept isn't working !!!!!
Beebop
do you mean everyone in Europe speaks English?
Would it make sense to even consider expansion into Europe when we can only sign five in Brighton?
What was the name of the rest. that had 600 new bookings in a month?
Are New York and Orlando in Europe now? Must be the dreaded Brexit effect!
Once the roll out to the UK is underway I can see this heading to the European cities. Why wouldn't you. The advantage with Europe/UK opposed to Asia is no language barrier to overcome.
Once Dish becomes a household name you will want to use it where you take their holidays. Paris New York Orlando etc
I`m going to correct myself before one of the eagle eyed well researched amoungst you does it for me, but it does come with a bonus!
I said that the 50% discount gets Dish a payment of £1, but having thought back I seem to remember that the 50% deal is worth 50p/person to Dish, and the 25% discount is worth £1, which sounds like the right way round. And there lies the bonus, because if you look at the app or website and click on the `deal details` link for any particular restaurant, as I did earlier, you`ll see that the majority of deals offered seem to be the 25% discount with some just offering that deal all day, and all night long! Which also brings in to question whether the main thrust of the model for filling seats at quieter times, is how all of the sign ups are using it, and some are obviously just filling seats at any times to bring in cashflow.
The freedom to have that control must be quite attractive I would have thought.
Just to add, the other part of the offer that you seem to shout the loudest about is this theory that Bigdish `force` restaurants into offering 50% off across the board. Thats also nonsense, and shows that you don`t actually research what you are waffling about!
If you took the time to download the app (currently 50,000+ according to the Android playstore) you will be able to see that the restaurants decide which time of day to offer which particular deals `up to 50% discount`!!!!!!
The deals include 50% off, 25% off and 2for1.
Its not like a New York mobster racketeering or protection racket where they go in their with a 1928 Tommy gun and say `give customers a 50% discount or the cutlery gets it`! Ha ha ha ha.
You`re either an idiot or a conscious spreader of fake news...which one?
Business model is 50% discount = 50p
600 bookings in one month = £300 Wow...Rtrump
This time your maths is correct but your understanding is all over the place.
The 50% discount represents £1 per diner for Dish, not 50p.
And the 600 bookings was for one restaurant, for one month, so even if you took each restaurant on the app today (114) to have 2 diners per day, so 10% of the 600 bookings record so far, it would generate almost £7000/month......4 diners per restaurant per day = £14000/month and so on....and planned to rise `significantly` as time ticks on in to the hyper growth stage.
I'd Scrap forcing restaurants (as a condition of being on the platform) into having to give 50% discounts.
This is what is creating the problem and why dish are struggling to increase restaurant numbers.
Instead leave the discount upto the restaurants with just one rule the minimum discount offer would need to be 15%
The max discount would be left upto the restaurants
This would be alot more appealing to restaurants and would see numbers quickly increase
Also target university bulletin boards cheap but effective instead of diluting share holders further by employing lord lucan and the invisible man as brand ambassadors (more flannel to issue more shares)
Business model is 50% discount = 50p
600 bookings in one month = £300 Wow
Market cap = £15million
Now can you see why shares will be back down way below 3p as it currently shouldn't have a mcap anywhere near £2million let alone £15million there will be a major correction before September/October imo
Watch this space
Too much BS for me. Filtered the clown
Yeah definitely got a bug, he thinks that 960+60=1037!
Someone reboot him up the arris again...he`s all gone wrong!
Yeah seems like he`s spun out in to frantic frenzy mode...maybe he`s a robot with a bug! Probably just needs a reboot....right up the arris!!