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InvesorTrev

Your last 2 posts are quite bonkers. There are no interims due tomorrow - or none for BigDish at least. The interim period runs from 1st April till 31st September with the results due within the following 3 months after the end of the period - ie. before 31st December.

Also the last funding wasn't from Table Pouncer. They were the company BigDish acquired at the time of the IPO. The shares issued were for the outstanding payment due on the acquisition. Everything in your "theory" was inaccurate and quite bonkers.

It's no wonder you get so many recommends for your posts. Speaks for itself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't think we are due much in the way of news beyond London and Manchester restaurants coming soon.

Yes, I know how sales jobs work.

The TM will say to Sanj 'I can't call on restaurants and offer a worse range of discounts than this other company' and Sanj will have to speak to Aidan and co. in Manilla and they will have to acquiesce.

I've been through it before myself, many times, and to be quite honest it's a positive move anyway as already the Midlands and North East restaurants are clearly making a statement by not offering any discounted seats on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and even some weekdays. The discounts and booking window should never have been changed in the first place from the original version which is all still there on BigDish Manilla.

Sorry, that should read 'adding Google reviews'................................

Yes, it looks like they've come across Discoeat in London already. I've done sales jobs and I know how it works.

The TM calls on a restaurant and the manager/owner listens to the pitch and then says 'we have that already'. The TM says 'you couldn't have, we are the only company doing this in the UK'. The owner then shows the TM the Discoeat app. The TM goes to Sanj and says ' I thought you said we were the only company offering yield management in the UK'. Sanj says. 'we are' and then gets shown the Discoeat app. Sanj then contacts Aidan and co. in Manilla. They all look at the Discoeat app. Then it's just a case of comparing them and comparing the different features. If you have the best app and deals then you don't have to do too much; if you have the worst one then improvements are in order.

The Discoeat app has Google ratings and is very smooth, hence the BigDish tweet about adding Google ratings and doing something to speed up the app. They should also have noticed the better range of discounts, which the restaurants need, and the longer booking period, which the customers will prefer and I am hoping these changes will happen soon too.

I think the TM's will find it much easier to sign up new restaurants if the managers/ owners can set their own discounts from 10% up to 50%, especially in the MIdlands and the North.

I just don't know what is happening here - but then again it has been very confusing since early June when the South and South-West regions suddenly stopped signing new outlets and haven't signed any since.

I have done enough sales jobs to know that any TM who hasn't signed a restaurant all day will be very embarrassed at the end of the day when he/she has to phone Sanj with their sign up numbers. To do that every day of the week is an embarrassment and a disaster, especially if you are on a good salary. You start to lose confidence in yourself and in the company, you start to worry about how long the job will last, where to go next, about how to pull it back.

There did not seem to be much of an issue signing restaurants in the South earlier in the year so I would like to know what's really going on here.

Personally I don't expect funding to last much beyond Jan 2020. According to the Annual Report the IPO funding was down to £40K by the end of March so that lasted for 8 months. Now there are the TM's to pay on top of previous expenses. Of course income from revenue will offset the spend but with only 27 restaurants added in 3 weeks and a lot of them quite simply refusing to offer any discounted seats during all of their busy periods it might be far too early to factor in too much revenue.

Nevermind I'm enjoying the carrots!!!!!!!!!

While we have been given a couple of Friday carrots from the management the bottom line is that the 3 TM's that we know are currently employed (West Midlands, East Midlands and North-East) have added 1 restaurant to the platform between them in a week.

That is pretty appalling really. Sanj could have signed up these by himself so far. Do they need him to go back and retrain them already or maybe just to hold their hands.

month5662

Yes and you are an idiot who used to listen to all of the feeble excuses and nonsense that you got from Aidan Bishop and then repeated it all here despite most it being "very economical with the truth" if not just a pack of falsehoods.

You should be ashamed of yourself - which you are if you keep off this board in future.

Great. That's saved me lots of time as I was going to spend half the day getting an email off to one of the directors who is based in the UK and who I know would take this seriously and pass it on to Aidan and co.

Anyway it looks as if Sanj and the London TM's have come across Discoeat by now. Discoeat have a Google ratings system on their App so something similar is a good idea. Also they will have seen that Discoeat restaurants offer a much better range of discounts which makes the restaurants more than happy to offer tables to customers all day every day that they are open. This is the future for yield management in the restaurant business and not restaurants putting the "No seats available" sign up.

Let's hope that "major improvements to the website" will include adding back in the full range of discounts and going back to a 2/4 week booking period.

After seeing that 13 out of the latest 27 new restaurants are not offering any seats at all today, let alone tomorrow, I was just about to communicate with the management about this. After reading the latest tweet I will hold back for a short while and see what their "improvements" are. If they don't involve these two important changes I will get in touch with them.

It is nice to hear something from the management. Manchester and London have lots of potential.

It would begood to see some more restaurants added in the three newest locations as well on top of this.

Best to ignore Lazarus1 - he's a total crank and is doing this on a lot of boards.

Lazarus1 is currently deramping UKOG, EVRH, URU, ALGW, VAST, TCG and of course DISH. And that is just in his 22 posts from today. Nothing positive in any of them - just attacking them all. And earlier this week there were also attacks on TYM, BAB and PET.

He is a serial deramper of quite epic proportions.

Scottman72's first post here was on 4th June when the share price was 8.2p. That was at the peak of the rise. Make what you want of it.

We seem to be keeping up with Discoeat at least. In the last 25 days they have added 8 restaurants. In 16 days BigDish have added 27 new restaurants. Could be worse.

You can say the same about most tech companies these days. Look at Deliveroo, Uber Eats and lots of other ones. None of them have got anywhere near making a profit in years.

I was reading an article about Open Table recently. Started in 1998 and "according to Fortune, in 2001 OpenTable was hemorrhaging money: despite operating in 50 cities, they were spending $1 million a month and bringing in just $100,000 in revenue. Needless to say, investors weren't happy."

I've no idea what is going on but it is far too early to panic.

It looks like Sanj has taken on far too much trying to start up all these new territories in one go. I expect he'll get there eventually.

That' s good news. I hope Ronald trump does the same. Goodbye.

Yes, it looks like it's just all too much for Sanj. He just isn't on top of it at all.

Considering this is all funded and financed and tech'd from the Philippines then they could at least be getting involved in what is going on over here. It's just reckless and stupid.

No, I will not give it a break. I have quite a large holding here and I would expect more than 1 restaurant from 3 territories in the first 3 days of this week. The TM's did not seem to have much trouble signing up restaurants before In the South of England so it shouldn't be a problem now.

Yes I am very disappointed that Bishop (and Boer), who know so much more than Sanj about yield management, have walked away and left this rollout entirely to Sanj. It was Bishop and Boer who came up with the idea and who set up Big Dish Asia and who made the decision to do this in the UK. It was nothing to do with Sanj who joined much later.

But neither of them seem to have been seen over here for several months, despite the fact that Sanj is obviously struggling to get the TM's trained and out doing the job on his own. If this had all been thought through properly then both Bishop and Boer could have spent a few months in the UK helping with recruitment, training and on-going support.

Right now it is looking to be a bit of a mess. What has happened to the T1 and T2 managers? All we have so far is 3 territories up and running out of 10 and 2 of those (Leicester and Newcastle) don' t seem to be up to much.

Very poor show from these people who should know better.

Getting the restaurants to sign up never seemed to be too much of an issue when they were working in the South and South-West. If they are having trouble getting them to sign in the Midlands and North-East it will be because the restaurants need to be able to offer smaller discounts and a bigger range of discounts as they will be working with smaller margins. It's up to the BigDish management to work this out and make the necessary changes.