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Tanya7 just launches viscious attacks on other posters instead. She/he reminds me more and more of beepopalula, or possible angelaJ6611 - both thoroughly nasty posters and long since gone.

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See spero's post of yesterday at 15.39. Current total of 206. I counted an hour ago and got the same. That does not include the 7 new territories that currently have a 3-hour or longer server error - prospector 19 posted at 11.16 today that there were 38 locations which is the new total including the extra 7.

I can't see why they've put a price on that for now. It seems a bit early if it's free until December. The most they've had so far is 625 restaurants on the App, a lot of which were small independents. Suddenly they are going to have 1500 restaurants on the platform, most of which are big chains. That might increase by 2/3 times very quickly as well.

They might find when they have thousands of high-quality chain restaurants on the platform that business takes off and they are doing hundreds of bookings per month - at which point they may regret having set a price that is dictated by the bookings of a few independents.

Can't get a figure as the 2-hour server update is still in progress. 7 new locations but cannot find out how many in each.

206 overnight.

Several new territories added - Liverpool, Sheffield, etc - but there is a server error. If anyone is in contact with them.................it's just on the new territories. Something needs pressing/adjusting.

It's fairly obvious that the share price won't reflect the extra restaurants until they are physically added to the platform. Wildwood/DinT aren't on board yet, nor are Pizza Hut restaurants.

They should start appearing next week.

Everyone was panicking when the share price didn't go up yesterday. As has happened before the share price will probably only go up when the restaurants are added and live, and even then there is always a small lag as well.

This is going to be breaking new ground in the next few weeks. We should see a new all-time high - and maybe considerably more.

The MM's won't have any shares today and this will keep going up with almost every buy.

1250 new venues plus the 200 plus around 50 Wildwood and DimT = 1500 for starters.

I can see this being 3000 before long as there are lots of big pub/restaurant chains. Once one is on it is easier to get more to follow.

We may see a considerably higher share price here very soon.

The bulk of these new additions will be from Mitchells and Butler.

"You already know Mitchells & Butlers, even if you don’t realise it! That’s because we run many of the UK’s most famous restaurant and pub brands, including All Bar One, Toby Carvery, Harvester and Browns, as well as some of its most beautiful and iconic pubs. In fact, we’re the leading restaurant and pub company in the UK, with over 1,700 businesses. So whether you’re looking for a traditional roast dinner with all the trimmings at Toby Carvery, a stylish ****tail at Browns in the heart of London or hand-pulled real ale at the legendary White Horse in Parson’s Green, you’ll always find a warm Mitchells & Butlers welcome that makes you feel right at home.

"• Several major restaurant chains to join the BigDish platform with a combined 1,250 sites

• BigDish-to-GO to launch in beta

• Restaurant retention and new restaurant acquisition gathers pace

On 22 July 2020, the Company announced that Pizza Hut agreed to join BigDish in order to amplify their participation in the government's Eat Out To Help Out initiative which commences on 3 August 2020.

In addition to Pizza Hut, a number of other restaurant groups have agreed to join BigDish. These include Mitchells & Butlers, Patisserie Valerie and Bakers & Baristas which alongside Pizza Hut represent over 1,250 new venues. The Company expects more restaurant groups to join the platform."

1250 plus 250 equals 1500. Maybe 3000 by mid-August.

I did post that this is a chance-in-a-lifetime opportunity to get 3000+ restaurants onboard in days rather than months or years.

Email Aidan and tell him to get the telesales team back from furlough and contacting every chain in the country to get them signed up for Eat Out to Help Out bookings and whatever other deals they are prepared to offer for the rest of the week and weekends. All bookings are for free. What better opportunity to get this App loaded with restaurants.

By the way, it doesn't matter if no-one can be bothered. We'll still see the 4p/5p share price and I will make a very nice profit but to be honest I could do with the big one here. The big 10 bagger - 2p/3p to 25p/30p. That's why I've wasted so much of my bloody time on this share - but so far this hasn't happened but it needs to - and soon.

200 as of now.

Huge opportunity missed here. It stands out that the big rampers here aren't very ambitious. They are going to be over the moon with the 4p/5p share price that we'll see by the beginning of August but that could be so much more.

Big Dish have got Pizza Hut on board and that in itself is a great achievement but if they can sign one chain they can sign them all - or a lot more at least. They have the opportunity to get thousands of restaurants on board in a matter of days. Sign them up with the same terms as Pizza Hut, which we believe to be bookings for the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and then whatever other deals they're prepared to offer.

Then the share price won't be just 4p/5p but more like 25p/30p. I've been here for 2 years waiting for something to happen and it looks like they're just about to miss out on great opportunity to get this App up and running.

What an opportunity.

If anyone is in contact with Aidan then they might want to drop an email to him to point out that 32,000 restaurants, including a lot of chains, have registered for the Government initiative and it's a brilliant opportunity to get some onboard. Big Dish can pitch them with the same terms as Pizza Hut has agreed to. Maybe send a link to the Times article about the App that has signed thousands of restaurants in a week or two. Big Dish can do the same but also take bookings for the restaurants as well. And bookings for the rest of the week. Restaurants need customers back in the doors.

What the management haven't worked out is that if they can get one chain on board quickly then they can equally get ten chains on board. Restaurants are desperate for customers. They could easily be adding thousands and not hundreds of restaurants. What an opportunity - sadly mostly missed.

Sorry if I come over a little bit harsh at times but I can just see a lot of missed opportunities here. We've always had a lot of talk, talk, talk from Aidan and he isn't disappointing us with his latest plans but what is sadly missing is some action.

Great that Pizza Hut are going to join the App. But that is only 245 restaurants. According to the figures 32,000 restaurants have registered for the Eat Out to Help Out scheme. One brand new App has contacted and signed up 3000 restaurants in a week or two and will add thousands more shortly.

Surely this was an opportunity for Big Dish to add thousands of restaurants overnight. Why wait. Unfortunately, the management are fast asleep in Manilla and the telesales team are still furloughed. What good is that? They could have added several thousand restaurants in double-quick time.

Sadly this is a brilliant opportunity badly missed - apart from Pizza Hut but that is just one chain out of 10 or 20 that could have been quickly brought on board. This is a fast-moving environment and the management need to wake up.

Question:

Why would Pizza Hut want to pay Big Dish £250pcm per restaurant for sending them customers when both Pizza Hut deliveries and Eat-in restaurants are on the Tastecard App/website and Pizza Hut doesn't have to pay them a dime for all the customers that are sent their way. It don't make sense. Especially when considering that Big Dish will probably send about 100 times less business their way.

There is no tweet. Biggers21 has made it up.

Count 191.

Unless Biggers21 can prove otherwise then Wildwood and DimT are not back.

Biggers21

I can't see that tweet on either:

https://twitter.com/aidanbishop70?lang=en
or
https://twitter.com/bigdishIR?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

Are you just repeating the Pizza Hut tweets but replacing Pizza Hut with Wildwood as a pitiful attempt to ramp this share price.

Also as of now neither Wildwood or DimT are on the App/website.

Are you saying it would be nice to see this tweet rather than that you can see it?

Posters - do not believe everything you read - DYOR.

This will be Big Dish's third incarnation. They have given up on both of their previous ideas without ever showing much interest or seeing them through. What is going to be different this time.

Here's some number crunching.

Big Dish started as a Tastecard type company with a dining card which the customers paid for. They started out quite well, with 1st year revenue of USD165,000. Table Pouncer were doing the same in the UK at the time, and their revenue for 2015 was £223,000, so considerably more than Big Dish Asia.

For some reason, despite reasonable figures, Big Dish changed to a Yield Management system in Asia and their revenue plummeted from USD165,000 in 2015 to USD8,550 in 2016 - a drastic and catastrophic loss of income.
Despite this loss of income, Big Dish then acquired Table Pouncer and converted their not unsuccessful Discount Card scheme into Yield Management. This has resulted in a similar catastrophic loss of income.

Big Dish Asia has since been closed and the last set of revenue figures for the company for the 6 months up to 30th September 2019 was £11,766 - against costs of £735,077. Talk about taking the p*ss.

Now they are going to adopt a new strategy and system, believing that the restaurants are going to want to pay them £250pcm or more for next to nothing. Tastecard already have 2.5 million members and an App that has been downloaded more than 1 million times while Big Dish are still unheard of and have a mere 50,000 downloads and no customer base. Why should the restaurants pay them anything when the Tastecard diners come to them for nothing.

This might attract a few restaurants while the service is free but they are unlikely to stay and pay Big Dish for nothing. All in all a very silly idea.