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At this current rate of sign-ups rate an additional 200 restaurants will take nearly 8 months.

To get to 900 restaurants which could have been doable by Xmas at the rate of 200 per month will take a whopping 34 months or nearly 3 years.

Yawn, yawn, yawn.

Figures from 1/10/19 and today:

Basingstoke - 9...............6
Bath - 6...........................5
Birmingham - 20..........26
Bournemouth- 37........38
Brighton - 5..................11
Bristol - 12....................12
Exeter - 3........................3
Leicester- 9...................10
Newcastle- 4..................4
Southampton- 18........18
Swindon - 1....................1
Taunton - 4.....................4
London - 0....................16

Total 128 - 01/10/2019...........................................154 - 28/10/19

Only a net rate of 26 restaurants in the best part of a month added to the net increase of

I repeat "Lucan knows nothing about the oil and gas industry". He is a financier and a d*ckhead.

I disagree. The management would not have been forced to face abandonment costs. This is just a matter for the gas project and the very naive Lucan who admits he knows nothing about the oil and gas industry and is purely a money man has done his "jobsworth" bit to apply abandonment to all of the assets for no reason at all. He simply doesn't know any better and this is just very stupid.

I have weighed up the options here. I had built a large holding in August in anticipation of the 200 restaurants that we were told would be launched in September. 200 a month would have given about 900 restaurants by Xmas and that would have been a major chunk - say 50% - of the total requirement of independent restaurants. It would have been huge.

I was also expecting a large re-rate. As I've said before, most IPO's of good ideas or ideas with potential can 3/4/5 bag quite easily in the first year or so from the IPO price and that is long overdue here and IF they had started signing 200 restaurants per month every month the SP would have easily re-rated to 20p/25p.

That was what I was expecting and what I bought in for. Without that, and with just a handful of restaurants now being added per week/month, that is never going to happen. Even though over time the share price may well pick up from the current lows there is not enough action here to warrant getting involved.

On top of the lack of action there are too many risks for me to put any serious amount of my hard-earned cash on this company. There is, I believe, a risk that Sanj could be removed, there is the risk of further competitors such as Discoeats arriving, and even of the management deciding to sell huge chunks of their vast holdings now things are not really happening. Plus the interims are due out some time and will probably show very little revenue, huge costs and further write-down of assets (assets that only existed in the inflated IPO listing and were never real anyway). Any or all of these could lead to a further drastic fall in the share price and m/cap.

All in all, in my opinion, this is just too high risk with only limited upside.

1 more restaurant in Brighton so that's 4 for the week - 2 Brighton, 1 Birmingham, 1 Leicester. No more in London as yet so that looks to be going slowly.

There only looks to be the 3 TM's plus London signing at the moment.

Sanj's new policy seems to be quality before quantity and a minimum target of 1 new restaurant per week.

Not much action Aidan can take apart from sacking Sanj.

I can just imagine the share price if that happens - 1p is still nearly a £4M m/cap and about right for the poor performance here especially now they seem to have closed down BigDish Asia.

1 new restaurant in Birmingham (24) and 1 more in Leicester (10). Maybe the new target now is 1 per TM per week.

Problem is that is only 2 TM's. There may be 1 or more working in London with a max of 3 but I don't think the rest exist except in Sanj's imagination.

Interims have to be out before the end of December so they will include the cash position as of 30th September 2019. That is the only way to see what is going on with the cash spend.

Also the management has completely given up on official RNS announcements and everything is now done through twitter - so it looks as if they are making sure that nothing is announced officially as they would be accountable whereas they can just delete tweets and twitter accounts any time.

I think they know that things are not going to plan as regards revenue and costs and sign-ups. The problem for them is that now, since the Annual Report, everyone else knows that everything they have said about the Asian side of the business which they described as "highly successful" is just a load of tosh. The Asian change from discount card to yield management was really just a failed transition.

Looks like Doc Holliday and co are organising a quick pump and dump here. I doubt it will do the share price much good as the problems are deeper than funding.

The main problem with holding shares here is that everything is done in an unorthodox way that doesn't give much room for trust. On the day of the placing (6th June) they issued an RNS which included:

"Further to the announcement on 30 May 2019 (plans for the nationwide rollout plus that they were fully funded for this) BigDish was approached by an institution to provide an offer of significant expansion capital. Whilst already being funded to execute its current strategy, the Company felt that this additional capital could further accelerate BigDish's growth beyond this."

However the Annual Report when it came out later said that Big Dish only had £43,000 in the kitty at the end of March 2019 - which was 2 months earlier. Which one was the truth?

Also we have no idea how many shares Bishop, Boer and Pere are holding. Nothing has been said since the IPO prospectus when they had something like 120 million to 160 million shares between them. We don't know if they have sold any. And what will it do for the share price if they do start selling them.

Also who did the placing shares go to? Shareholders should have been told. And was the placing done through SVS Securities who have since gone bust?

Too many important details are passed by or just ignored.

As for Sanj his podcasts are now becoming a joke. Even the interviewer has to ask the same questions each time and never gets a straight answer. He seems happy to make it up as he goes along and seldom tells the truth and everything is going to happen today or tomorrow and yet never does. What the f*ck is going on. He is really useless and always was. However if Aidan sacks him as he should it will be even worse for the company and the shareholders.

The share price isn't down over any funding questions. Obviously they have enough cash to last until around next summer. They also have a very mysterious 10 million Treasury shares which they can sell for extra funds if they need to - though they never said where these shares came from. Funding isn't a worry.

The worry is the rate of sign-ups. 1 added in Birmingham each week for the last 2 weeks. Imagine if they start adding only 2 or 3 per week in London.

And Sanj is the big problem. He has been on board for a year now and CEO for 9 months and yet progress has always been very slow. He has made some awful decisions - like sending the T1 and T2 managers round to account manage instead of letting them keep signing up new restaurants, and his management of the nationwide rollout has been dire. He says there are 8 TM's on the payroll - plus another starting tomorrow as there always is - and yet there have only been about 18 new restaurants signed in the last 3 weeks.

However, if Aidan gets rid of Sanj then things will be even worse as he is the only person who has done anything at all here for the last few months and the other directors including Aidan appear to have completely lost interest altogether.

Every company issues an RNS to say that the AGM happened and that any resolutions were passed - unless there weren't any resolutions. And was it on Saturday 19th as they said or on Friday 18th as other sources said? Maybe they didn't want to make it clear in case anyone turned up to ask embarrassing questions.

No Tr1 after the placing, no holdings RNS or info on the website, no price on the in lieu of salary shares, no official updates by RNS since 1st August - this company seems to want to run this Philippine-style instead of by the London Main Market rules. I see the company accountant sold some shares on 30th September which was the last day of the interim period so he couldn't have like the 6-month figures too much.

I had bought some back here but monty5662 posting about his "it's time to get rid of Sanj" posts and knowing he has a hotline to Aidan so this might just happen has meant I have now got rid of them as if they do remove Sanj the share price will be decimated - and so will the company and even the rather feeble progress to date will go into reverse.

I think that it will be so much easier to sign-up restaurants in London and they will start appearing much faster.

London is all about young couples and friends - parties - eating out at weekends and the fact that right from the start most of these new restaurants are offering discounted slots right through till closing on Friday and Saturday evenings is a very positive sign.

They should be funded until about next May/June. It's still October so that is many months away.

For god's sake chill out or shut up, please.

I was probably thinking young 20 something Londoners, particularly females, high salaries, love to eat out every weekend at least once, love to go to new places and new locations, look at the map - where can we get too, where can we go, etc, etc.

That's a much better attitude. Chill out and enjoy the experience.

There is also a Map option on the website that actually works. It was on there before but never worked. Now if you change from List to Map it is fully operative. It looks good and is a fun way to search for a restaurant.

The website has been updated.

The main change seems to be the discounts showing on the home page. That is how it was originally before the changes back in January.

It also had a 4-week booking window and discounts between 10% and 50% originally so you never know but they may even change these back eventually too.

"adapted their strategy" is what I mean and not "adopted".