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I'd feel happier if I was confident that this company can sort things out as they go along but they have shown very little talent in this department so far.

They still haven't fixed the location blip on the website for a start.

If so they could soon start to merge some locations and to use counties for others so it quickly becomes properly organised. But maybe they won't and then it will all start to become very messy.

Well, Kenilworth has a CV postcode so it is just down the road from guess where - yes, Coventry, which was added last Friday.

Dewsbury has a WF postcode which is Wakefield - already up and running with 2 restaurants.

Winsford is an odd one. Crewe postcode but equidistant between Chester, Stoke-on-Trent, and Manchester.

Llandovery is in the Brecon Beacons National Park and miles from anywhere but with a Swansea postcode likely to be visited by people from there. A location called Wales may be best.

Warrington has its own postcode and seems to be midway between Liverpool and Manchester and I don't have a clue whether it should have its own location or not and don't really care..

There is one consolation here - at least they aren't running the telesales operation from Manila. Ha-ha.

Not that I think they'd make much more of a hash of it. Personally I'd have loved to have seen 6 new restaurants added in Surrey today - and give the one each in Kenilworth, Dewsbury, Llandovery, Warrington and Winsford a miss for now.

This is actually getting worse over the last few days and it doesn't promise to be a very nice experience for a while.

spero

My counting error. I have 328 on the list as of today.

This is not a disaster. It just needs a few tweaks to be back on target.

The good news is that the restaurants are readily signing to the App. There is obviously enough interest for them to list.

As with the TM's, there are some people who can do the job and some who can't so it may still take a while to get 10 people in the team who can all sign restaurants regularly every day.

I just think that it would be much better if they target the biggest 10 or 20 cities and counties in the country and get these signed first.

It is surely much easier to phone a restaurant in London or Birmingham and to say there are 50 restaurants on the platform already including 2 nearby. The restaurant will want to come on board or risk being left behind.

It is not as easy to phone Dewsbury or LLandovery or Livingston where there are hardly any restaurants in the first place and where the Big Dish platform is unlikely to make much of a difference to their businesses.

I can see the share price sticking if they continue in this manner. The two changes that could see the SP rising again will be if they can up the numbers from 10 a day to nearer 20 a day and if they can forget about more useless locations and sign restaurants to the big locations.

By the way, the chains are not waiting to come on board when every last part of the country has been covered and if they wanted to do that in a hurry they could just use the counties - how many of our current locations would fall into North, South or West Yorkshire. They just need the main cities and counties covered.

Surrey is fine but otherwise that is some very drippy locations. Someone needs to use their head somewhere in this company - apart from me that is.

spero

I have got 327 so if you can tell me which one I'm missing I'll update it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IT0rmMINzLSmbdEAUCwZ3jpK22tQ3C4-u6xbX-fj9nM/edit#gid=0

Surrey is fine but otherwise thaqt is some very drippy locations.

Do I want to be sitting around posting here - NO. I would much rather be getting on with my life while the share price shows nice daily improvements. However for that to happen the team needs to make a better job of things. This is not going to plan at all. They need to get it sorted.

It's not so much that no-one wants to sell but more a problem that you can't sell without going to NT. The MM's won't even give a selling price for 1000 shares so they are sitting tight waiting to drop this further.

My recent research into companies that have made a success of this type of business shows that it is better to have a lot of restaurants in one location rather than a few restaurants in many locations. This encourages competition amongst the restaurants and attracts diners who will use many of the restaurants and also tell family and friends who will do the same.

I would like to see the top ten cities in the UK targeted first - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Nottingham, Cardiff - and 50 to 100 added in all of these cities with upwards of 250/350 in London.

Then they should roll-out to the Tier 2 cities - Derby, Blackpool, Swansea, Portsmouth, etc, etc plus the larger counties such as Essex, Surrey, etc, etc.

Then Tier 3, mid-size counties, etc, etc.

To me, this looks as if the telesales team has come completely off the rails altogether, hence why I have greatly reduced my holding for now, and that unless something is done about this very soon by the directors then this will impair both the future prospects here as well as the share price. 1 restaurant in Aberdeen, Barnsley, Blackburn etc and places like Bushey, Thame and Llandovery are going to do this company far more harm than good. There are 25 locations with just one restaurant as of today.

Confusion, resulting in a lack of trades, seems to be saving the share price from any further falls at the moment. No-one has the confidence to buy but then people haven't quite given up as the new restaurants trickle onto the platform. They are just not where they should be to see this company grow.

Unfortunately as far as the share price is concerned these single restaurant locations are as good as worthless. They are not going to lead to any premium listings, they are going to clog up the website, they are not going to lead to any customers or increase revenue, they are going to annoy the shareholders and they are going to make Big Dish look a bit of a joke.

It is now up to the directors to get this back on track - once again.

We have endured 18 months of c*ck-ups here and to me this is just another one - though it is not too late to get this sorted and start to recover. Otherwise we're DOOMED.

I am not doubting that Tom and his team have added 3000 restaurants in 6 months with a previous company but the one thing that is becoming very clear is that they are not going to do that here. Maybe 1000 in 6 months or 3000 in 12-18 months.

December was spent with most people sitting on the sidelines wondering if the telesales approach was going to work at all and now in January we have had a sprinkling of new restaurants but they have been located and added in such a strange way that I think people are again becoming apprehensive.

My recent research into companies that have made a success of this type of business shows that it is better to have a lot of restaurants in one location rather than a few restaurants in many locations. This encourages competition amongst the restaurants and attracts diners who will use many of the restaurants and also tell family and friends who will do the same.

I would like to see the top ten cities in the UK targeted first - London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sheffield, Nottingham, Cardiff - and 50 to 100 added in all of these cities with upwards of 250/350 in London.

Then they should roll-out to the Tier 2 cities - Derby, Blackpool, Swansea, Portsmouth, etc, etc plus the larger counties such as Essex, Surrey, etc, etc.

Then Tier 3, mid-size counties, etc, etc.

To me, this looks as if the telesales team has come completely off the rails altogether, hence why I have greatly reduced my holding for now, and that unless something is done about this very soon by the directors then this will impair both the future prospects here as well as the share price. 1 restaurant in Aberdeen, Barnsley, Blackburn etc and places like Bushey, Thame and Llandovery are going to do this company far more harm than good. There are 25 locations with just one restaurant as of today.

To conclude things need to change and improve here and in the meantime I expect the share price to falter and possibly decline further. This is once again down to Aidan to try and get this back on track. If anyone wants to copy and email him my post please feel free.

W

Can anybody be bothered to scroll through all of these locations on the off chance that the odd one might have been added somewhere?

Surrey is good - but Dewsbury, Llandovery and Winsford - yawn, yawn, yawn!!!!!

London - Population 10.3M

Hong Kong - 7.3M - Restaurants on Eatigo as of 28/1/20 - 758
Mumbai - 21M - 299
Jakarta - 10.3M - 624
Seoul - 9.7M - 108 (new)
Kuala Lumpur - 6.8M - 441
Manila - 12.9M - 567
Singapore - 5.6M - 668
Bankok - 9.26M - 727

I see all the experts have turned up:

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As for the Eatigo valuation - well Eatigo are actually doing yield management not the Big Dish watered down discount card without the discount card version and they are targeting major Asian cities, 8 of which are as big as London. In effect they have 8 London's on their App.

That valuation is way, way out of date, never more than talk as they are not listed and for when they had 700 restaurants while now they have 5350.

I wasn't expecting much in the way of intelligent discussion on this board but I would say that anyone who finds my earlier posts boring shouldn't be investing in the Stock Market and certainly not in Big Dish. This is a high risk share.

Anyway Aidan found Tom Sumner somehow and was pleased to inform the market that:

" In April 2019 Table Now rebranded with a new app and embarked upon a nationwide rollout. Following the rebrand, Tom grew the platform, with a 10 person telesales team, from 250 to 3,000 restaurants across the United Kingdom over a six month period. "

Of course monty5662 then comes on here and tells us that Big Dish have not actually committed to or said they will do the same, which on a technicality is true but then why bother telling us this in the first place if we cannot keep up with targets other companies have managed. That is a very poor way of going on.

Anyway it is probably just as well that Big Dish have no intention of getting to 3000 restaurants in 6 months. With 2 months gone already, that would mean they would have to sign 2687 restaurants in 4 months which equates to a whopping 672 restaurants per month or the equally whopping 168 restaurants per week.

One more point. The 1p per 100 restaurants is no more than a ramping tool that some here have thought up and persistently posted (me included) with the objective of ramping up the share price. There is no credibility to it, particularly taking into account the wayward manner in which the telesales team are approaching the signing of restaurants at the moment. All of these one restaurant locations are quite worthless to the share price.

At the current rate it will take a year or more to get to 3000 restaurants.

Some posters, me for one, have been saying for ages that Big Dish needs to sign up restaurants in the big cities. Looking at the diner numbers on the Open Table App it looks as if Big Dish doesn't have much revenue simply because they are operating in the wrong places.

Bournemouth is small time for restaurant numbers - the big cities and particularly London are big time.

Silly schoolboy error.

Neither Tiien Thai or The Crab have any offers or discounts on Open Table today and yet they have still taken 20 bookings between them. Both are 25% discount with Big Dish.