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As far as I can make out the old platform with yield management will stay and the BigDish-to-Go will also be on the same App/website, but accessible separately.
As far as I can make out the BigDish-to-Go is just for restaurant takeouts but not for non-restaurant takeaways.
I am not really interested in the BigDish-to-Go side of this. If you look at the restaurants - Wildwood, Pizza Hut - they have already done a deal with deliveroo, who are doing the delivery side, no doubt for a fixed fee. If anything Big Dish can actually still take the booking, letting the restaurant supply the food at the agreed price (discount or no discount) and deliveroo can do the delivery side for a set fee. Why Big Dish would want to get involved in the delivery side of it beats me. I think that this was decided before it became apparent that deliveroo are happy just to get a delivery fee for their part.
Restaurants, especially the smaller ones have been crying out for an alternative to Just Eat and Deliveroo who effectively dictate terms and charge increasingly high fees. They succeeded because they were disruptors, maybe DISH will disrupt them.
Jp completely agree with you there just got to hold and wait for the SP to play catch up once the chains are all added to the website should be an exciting few weeks ahead imo
Hi Sam, I agree that it was previously easy to follow the addition of restaurant numbers (prior to lockdown) and think that if we can get the chains added promptly we shouldn’t be anywhere near 2p.
Several months ago we’d be talking around 10p for 1,800 restaurants. Clearly wider market sentiment is at an all time low due to COVID, however if we can get these restaurants added then there should be new SP highs later this year, as long as the companies stick around on the app!
Jp I agree they need to add them all ASAP which I’m sure they are working there socks off behind the scenes to do! But when there live is when the SP seems to react in the correct way so it’s easy to buy DISH wait for the RNS purchase at a low price knowing it’s guaranteed to come and then the SP rises when there added to the app a few days later
The RNS this morning is very positive again, however I think ART makes a fair and valid point, regardless of whether the intention is to deramp. We do need to see the restaurants live on the app in a short time frame because the offer is only applicable in August.
It would be a bit of an own goal to spend a week or so adding restaurants to the app that have already agreed to sign up as that’ll have a negative impact upon their perception of Dish’s ability.
Art just because of the excellent RNS again today and you have no holding or a little one I bought in last week as I seen potential and honestly think it will pay off today and this week
I think that we need to see some of these restaurants actually live on the platform. Out of the 40 or 50 Wildwoods and DimT restaurants that were on before lockdown there are now 17 live.
And where it the mention of the Eat Out to Help Out participation on the App. There is no mention of it anywhere.
The next worry here is that when Big Dish do finally wake up and start adding restaurant numbers in the thousands that the tech team won't be up to the job.
With these chains added I’m increasing my holding.
This is becoming more interesting every week
I think the brand play will work well with Chains and Independents
So some of the Wildwoods are back on now but not all of them. Aberdeen, Belfast, Wirral, Sheffield locations still have a server error.
Pizza Hut -
"Can you guess which national pizza chain will be available through BigDish, 7 days a week from August 1st???
Customers will also be able to save 50% Monday-Wednesday thanks to the new government initiative..."
are not on the platform yet at all and have already missed the deadline of 1st August and have missed the start of the Govt Initiative as of today.
If you want a count it is Friday's total plus 17 Wildwood and DimT'S.
Some of the Wildwoods are now live - but they only seem to be the ones that have a current location ie. London, Nottingham.
Wildwood now added in several areas. And Dim T
My point about the Server Error was that they couldn't even get 7 new locations - Liverpool, Sheffield, etc and nothing to do with the chains - on properly so how are they going to get all of these chains on the platform - and how long is it going to take because they should be on there already for the launch today.
Liverpool now has Wildwood on it.
According to the twitter "We're very excited to announce a number of recognised brands joining BigDish, available 7 days a week! You can also save 50% Monday-Wednesday thanks to the new Eat Out To Help Out initiative"
though the RNS's have never made it clear.
The Eat Out to Help Out scheme starts today and only runs for a month so these additional chain restaurants need to appear or to start appearing soon.
Are these restaurants only joining for the eat out offer or are they here for the whole free trial period?
I just wish these operational updates would give some information about exactly when these new restaurants are going to be added to the platform.
The new locations added on Friday still show a Server Error and are not live. Wildwood and DimT are still not on the platform and the Eat Out to Help Out initiative starts today but not one of the chain restaurants are as yet on the platform.
The tech team have always struggled to get 20 so new restaurants live before and now they have nearly 2000 to add. How long is this going to take - or are they going to perform some kind of a miracle and add them all in one go?
Next steps:
Funding
Super app
Dish have delivered the restaurants now can they convert these to paying customers