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I'm not arguing, agreeing or disagreeing but purely as a fact I have just got the opposite:

Dummy buy 400,000 available at 3.69p
Dummy sell 400,000 goes to NT

What happens next to the share price entirely 100% depends on if/when new locations are added and how many (there are 12 TM's!!) and how many restaurants are added in each.

I disagree. No trades is okay. Just means sellers are loathe to sell as a new territory has been added and more could follow. No buyers mean that buyers are just waiting to see if Birmingham was just a flash in the pan or the start of the nationwide rollout. No-one wants to sell if the SP is about to rise: no-one wants to buy if it is going to lag.

Having said that I do think that Sanj is a slowcoach - though in all fairness he does seem to have to do everything and far too much if anything. Bishop never seems to be around or doing anything, likewise the other over-paid directors and senior management, and Sanj has to carry the can alone.

If the management thought this through they would get a couple of regional managers to work under Sanj and to oversee the TM's. Sanj on his own trying to control 12 managers covering the whole country is quite ludicrous and could lead to a lack of action.

I was always very impressed with the old T2 manager - Bristol, etc and would be cross if he/she has gone.

I was never quite sure if there ever was a T1 manager as the Bournemouth restaurants were all migrated from TP and Sanj let it slip that he had been in Southampton signing them up himself. They did though have a manager for that territory recruited and due to start on 5th August 2019.

From RNS dated 11th August:

"The Company is also pleased to announce that a new Territory Manager covering the South East of the United Kingdom (Territory 3) will start on 5 August 2019. This is part of the Company's recruitment drive for Territory Managers to cover the entire United Kingdom."

T3 should read T2 as London is now T3 (according to the AR).

Not sure what he/she has been doing since then? Seems a long time to be not signing new restaurants.

monty5662's at it again. Did Aidan tell you that the T1 and T2 managers were both sacked?

Personally I would have sacked any TM's who went around and lost over 33% of the existing customer base and didn't sign up one single new restaurant in 3 months.

Jokes aside the old T2 manager is now supposed to be dealing with the South-West and Wales which is now to be T1 and the old T1 manager is now supposed to be looking after the South-East which I assume will include Bournemouth and Southampton and Brighton and will now be T2. This is according to the Annual Report - Page 12.

Actually I have just noticed that on both the App and the website if you scroll down to where it says "Menu Highlights" and click on the "with **% off" then it already has the full range of discounts available - 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45% and 50% OFF.

It looks like these are ready to be made available to the restaurants at some stage so they can then set their own range of discounts to suit their individual busy and quiet times, etc.

This will need to happen if only to keep up with Discoeats.

For goodness sake.

12 restaurants have been added in 2 days in Birmingham. There are supposedly 12 TM's in employment and being paid a salary. Each has their own territory and each territory contains some very attractive virgin towns and cities.

12 X 12 = 144 - does anyone feel we are ending up a little short. Certainly there is plenty of room for improvement.

I'd rather see all of them add 12 in a week and see what happens to the share price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, it is nice to see that 1 out of the 12 TM's is actually working.

Maybe the rest are on annual leave or off sick.

Or maybe this is just Sanj signing them up and the 12 TM's are following him around watching every move and listening to every word to see how it's done.

I'd like to see Brighton worked on - that should be an easy 40.

And the 2 established TM's can get on with the job without needing constant monitoring as they are more experienced in the role here so less pressure on Sanj.

I tell a lie - there are 5 more added in Birmingham. The original 8 less EastZEast makes 7 and now there are 12 so that is another 5 overnight. BOOM TIMES!!!!!

I'm not sure what the target is for Birmingham and surrounds but 80 to 100 should be very doable and will also let the TM be a bit fussy about who he signs.

I take that back - La Galleria looks okay to me now. Maybe the photos just need to get warmed up, or they become clearer the more they're viewed.

Separately the market isn't too sure what to make of the progress here - hence no trades at all.

By the way this is only a link to the website. BigDishAsia App is not accessible on phones so we can only view the website and the pictures do look correct on a PC, laptop or tablet, which is where and how I am viewing them, as well as accessing the very poor state of this website.

Once again the photos are not great - and this time it looks to be the fault of BigDish.

Celebrity Indian has submitted some very clear photos of their food with the "Celebrity Indian Restaurant" logo clearly showing in the top corner. However, the images have been added to the website with the logos half in the picture, as is the plate of food. One has to assume the whole image was supplied and that the BigDish team has added them very badly.

If this is still the fault of the restaurant as they add the photos to the website themselves, which I feel is doubtful, then they still need some help, advice and instruction on use.

La Galleria also looks to be out of focus to me.

Funnily enough the photos are 10 times better on the BigDish Asia website with the restaurants in the Philippines - so don't say the company can't do it. Not that the website BigDish Asia works anymore - it's car crash territory. Most companies would be embarrassed to have this online in the state it is currently in. See for yourselves on this link:

https://bigdish.ph/

If you can get it up and running take a look at the photos - not to mention the range of discounts and booking period.

Too fussy -- never as far as food is concerned.

Also it's about time T1 & T2 managers got back to work and resumed signups. They've both had over 3 months off now so a little work to justify their salaries would not be amiss. Time for more to be added to Brighton (still on 5) and maybe Swindon, where 2 are left of the original 3.

Of course monty5662 would have us believe that all start-up tech companies have staff sitting around for months on end doing nothing but I don't buy it personally.

The time for action is now - before the funds run out again.

4 more restaurants added in Birmingham. Not sure where the other overdue cities are including London with it's 3 TM's.

I've just been looking at BigDish Asia in Manilla and their website has a 30-day booking window and also has discounts available at 10%, 15%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% as well as discounts available every day including weekends.

These seem to be 3 things they seem to have changed for the worse since starting in the UK and to be honest the sooner they change these back the better. They must have been mad to change anything.

And I am disappointed to see that monty5662 got 3 recommends to his post that as good as accused some of us here of being too fussy and pernickety.

(pernickety definition: giving too much attention to small details that are not important in a way that annoys other people).

And well done to millair for looking into this matter and daring to point it out on this board.

Late

I don't often recommend any posts but I have just recommended yours. Good post.

monty5662 - or anyone

You may also like to mention to Aidan that Discoeat also offers full discount slots on the weekends as well as weekdays, which is easier when they reduce the rates of discounts to 10% and 20%.

BigDish seems to have largely set themselves up as a Monday to Friday discount dining experience which is silly and to be honest probably misses out on about half of the available revenue (in terms of numbers of diners) every week.

Wow - someone is listening in. Or maybe someone has emailed the company. EastZEast is no more for now. Good result.

Nice to get an update and some more locations and restaurants added, please.