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I can't work out why Sanj doesn't get T1 and T2 back to signing up again. It always seemed to be easy enough to sign up restaurants in these areas and there are lots of places to do - including Brighton.

Looks like an easy opportunity being wasted.

One more restaurant in Birmingham added - except it is in Lichfield and not Birm. Not sure why it doesn't get it's own location as Lichfield is miles from Birmingham.

Just one????

It's probably best not to get too carried away with this at the moment - as is the way with some posters here. It is early days and the management here do have a bit of a reputation for going slowly and even in reverse at times. While the nationwide rollout has started, there is a very long way to go.

I would certainly expect to see one if not two major cities added this week and preferably with bigger numbers than last week as 6 in Leicester and 4 in Newcastle is hardly busting a gut for a well-paid, experienced TM. I would also expect to see additional restaurants added in Birmingham, Leicester and Newcastle this week.

New locations have been added on a Tuesday on both weeks so far!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously any bookings at less than a 25% discount will be £1 - or possibly more but certainly £1 minimum per person. Use your brain laddie.

Nothing much to worry about here as long as they just keep signing up the restaurants. They are certainly funded for the next few months anyway.

Most companies that IPO with a good idea/good prospects 4/5/6 bag within the first year or so. That is still due to happen here as the nationwide roll-out gathers momentum. We could easily see 20p - 25p within the next few months. Good times ahead.

Greets

If a restaurant is on the BigDish platform then the idea is to get all of their customers to book through the BigDish App/website. Busy periods/slack periods doesn't make any difference. If a regular, occasional or new diner is going to eat at one of the restaurants on the platform the objective is to get them to book through BigDish. That way BigDish get the booking fee. If they book with the restaurant and pay the full menu price Big Dish do not get a booking fee.

The more I look at it the more it looks as if Discoeat may have copied the way the discounts are done on BigDish Manilla. Eatigo do it differently and don't always do the 10% discount in the evenings while BigDish Manilla seem to do this a lot.

I've added a link to one of the restaurants below. Not sure if it will open or not - give it time as it's a bit slow.

Anyway for next Saturday 21st Sept the restaurant, Senor Pollo, is open from 11.30am until 11.00pm. The first half hour slot is a 30% discount, followed by 4 at 20%, 1 at 30%, 1 at 50%, 2 at 30%, another at 50%, 2 at 40%, then 5 at 10%, 2 at 15%, 4 at 30%, and a final slot at 50% discount. It looks great - much better than a solid block of 25% discounts. And not a single "No seats available" anywhere.

https://bigdish.ph/restaurants/senor-pollo/at/makati-city-702?timestamp=1568476800000

Greets - you need to think outside the box. There are slack periods on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday and not just on Monday-Thursday. Also if other yield management for restaurant companies are using this for every hour the restaurants are open, including BigDish Manilla, then that is the future. "No seats available" is firmly in the past. Second generation yield management is for booking anytime. Even the videos mentioned this recently. The manager from The Noodle Bar said "our regulars are using it all the time to book". That is going quite beyond the concept of "slack periods". Their regulars are going to eat there anyway. Now they can book with a discount.

Just to clarify and before anyone is rude about my post I should make it clear that I am here for the restaurant acquisitions and that this alone should be enough to move the share price up by many multitudes.

If the management has made a mess of it and the revenue is far short of where it should be that is not a problem for me and not anything I would worry about. The share price should rise on restaurants numbers alone and this should be quite enough for even the most greedy of investors.

However, there are implications with all these "No seats available" issues. It probably will slow down acquisitions. It could give the App a bad name as it doesn't look very good. It might provide problems for some chains who have consistent prices throughout the country. It could cause restaurants to delist as they are not getting any benefits without offering seats at their busiest times. Any competitors who move in on BigDish could and probably would steal a lot of restaurants away if they offer the owners/managers the chance to set their own full range of discounts - who is going to bother with a platform that doesn't give the restaurant the chance to offer any discounted seats during the busier times of the week and if two platforms are coexisting it will be the one with the weekend discounts that does most of the bookings. I'm sure there are others.

Do I care - not really as long as the nationwide rollout continues rapidly however a few small tweeks and this could be a far less worrying experience.

Good to see some progress at last with the signups, albeit it has started at a slower rate than expected.

I can, however, see one issue that needs to be resolved and if the management even looked at the BigDish App once they would be aware of it and probably do something about it. By management I mean Sanj in the UK and Bishop, Boer, etc in the Philippines and as this is a tech matter this is one for Manilla to address and not Sanj.

Of the 26 new restaurants, 19 are not offering any seats at all for the whole of today (Saturday). That's 11 of the 16 in Birmingham, 5 out of 6 in Leicester and 3 out of the 4 in Newcastle. Just for the record, I have checked and every restaurant is open for food today, with some closing at 9.30pm and 10pm and others open to 1.00am.

That is a dreadful waste of revenue for Big Dish as the weekends are the busiest times of the week by far. Friday night, Saturday evening and Sunday lunchtime probably accounts for about half of the average restaurants weekly revenue. Big Dish are getting very little of it.

Anyway, I have already mentioned in previous posts and what needs to be done to get these restaurants to offer discounted seats even at their busier times so I'm not going to repeat all that now.

Suffice it to say that Discoeat offers seats for every half hour for all opening times. There is not a "No seats available" option for the restaurants. The very busy times are discounted to 10% and if the restaurant really doesn't even want to do that then there is an option for people to book a table but at 0% discount. This still gets a booking fee for the platform.

I see that was noted at 12.30pm. Love to see some more added to Brighton soon.

Another 2 added in Birmingham - Solihull - 16 now.

Sorry let me finish that off as it got posted while I was still in mid flow.

.....4 in London, 1 near Southampton and 1 in Winchester.

https://dimt.co.uk/restaurants/

Not knowing what dim t was or even whether it was a spelling misteak I googled it and it came up with the link below. Turns out it is a small chain of 6 restaurants with 4 in

I would expect this to be back to 5p by the time London comes live.

With London definitely on soon so they can get the chain trial on board.

17.14% up according to my live prices!!!

Poor old spero.

That must be one of the worst decisions I have seen on this website in 10 years. I admit we all have a bit of a moan when things go slowly and there are definitely a few improvements that would improve the experience but with adequate funding for now and the nationwide roll-out already started it's time to hold and not announce you've just sold. By the time he realises his mistake he'll probably have to pay an extra 25% or so. Very silly.

The share price is up 7.94% today reflecting the increase in activity. Plenty more to come and this should see most of us with holdings that have been under water start to move into profit in the next few weeks.

Bishop and Boer - and not to forget Beebopalula. And BigDish. It's all about the B's.