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I know I live in the sticks - and that's my choice.

I would never have recommended or even expected Big Dish to start in the West Country though and things should start moving a lot quicker once they get signing up in the big cities.

3.36p to sell and someone even sold at that price which seems a bit rash. Things can only get better - hopefully!!!

Yes, I have tried everything.

Can anyone get the "Nearby: Closest to you" function to work?

The market doesn't seem too impressed with 8 new restaurants in Birmingham after all the delays - no sign-ups since June apart from the rather sad 5 in Brighton - and what most shareholders took to be Sanj's talk of 200 new outlets to be added in bulk in September.

I do agree with someone's post a while ago - I think it was a repost of a post on ADVFN - that the Big Dish App loads a bit slowly - especially the discounts.

When I go on discoeats and eatigo the discounts are there already - as if they are fixed on the picture and they do not have to load separately. With Big Dish I am literally sitting waiting to see the discounts and sometimes they take absolutely ages to appear.

The photos also load too slowly. This needs improving.

No, anything I do it just doesn't work. I have enabled location services and uninstalled and reinstalled the App and restarted my handset and I just get the same message - "Location Services turned off on your device. Please go to settings and enable location services to use this feature".

drax

I think 1000 by Xmas would be very good going. This lot just never seem to push the boundaries and why should anything change now.

Does anyone have this feature working yet? Is it a problem with my settings or is the feature not working yet?

Only sensible replies please.

Just a question:

Obviously the towns/cities are shown in a list but most of these type of Apps will start a search from the location of the handset and find the nearest restaurants. While this might not work for the majority on here as the nearest might still be 100, 200 miles away I have restaurants nearby.

However my phone just comes up with the message: "Location Services turned off". I have tried and tried to enable this feature and as far as I am concerned it is enabled.

Has anyone got this feature working and if so could you please tell me what I need to do to enable it on my handset.

Cheers

At bloody last some action here.

8 restaurants is better than 3 or even 1 as we've had before in some locations. However with a population of 1 million plus compared to the pop of Bournemouth of 160,000 there is plenty of scope for improvement.

mercedesman

Well when they finally get around to signing up restaurants in the new locations we shall be able to directly see the rate of progress.

mercedesman

Saving of travelling time between restaurants and also a saving of travelling time between towns/cities. I made the point before that Bristol is 35 miles from Swindon and 55 miles from Taunton and 88 miles from Exeter. Bournemouth is 75 miles from Reading and 98 miles from Brighton.

The areas covered so far have involved a heck of a lot of driving which eats badly into the hours available for calling at restaurants. Having said that Bournemouth and Southampton are reasonably highly populated areas so the 20 per month already hit seems a good target. The big cities should offer a lot of restaurants in close proximity .

"The Company expects new locations to go live at a more rapid pace as new Territory Managers are recruited throughout the United Kingdom."

That clearly infers that new locations would go live as the new territory managers are recruited. Apart from the two existing managers who haven't signed a bloody restaurant between then for 3 months, 3 were recruited in the first week of August and 3 in the second week. So where are the new locations.

Of course, as soon as they got their funding they seemed to have stopped bothering altogether - except to send the 2 managers round to lose a third of their existing restaurants.

No wonder my average is higher than the current share price. I was one of the succours who listened to and believed everything the company was promising around the beginning of June - none of which has happened at all. Having sold out on the rise I started buying back in on around 11th June at as high as 7.5p. Then when nothing that was promised turned up the share price just kept tanking while I was still buying and waiting for these things to happen.

Of course I now know what went on. The company had virtually run out of funds by the end of March (with something like £43,000 left in the bank) and so they actually had to start doing some work towards building this business by adding new locations and signing new restaurants and they also started planning the nationwide roll-out to make sure they got a placing off.

Then they got their funds on 6th June and immediately the bad old ways slipped back in - no sign ups, no tech deal, no Brighton or Reading, etc, etc. It had all been just to ensure they got their funding. Okay, they have apparently got the managers recruited but that was as much due to the recruitment agency as Big Dish and what good is that if they aren't going to get signing up restaurants.

Oh well at least at this rate they will soon be running out of funds again (and that was despite Aidan saying they were fully funded for the nationwide rollout before the placing!!) and may actually get on and do a bit more work.

The only thing that has been quicker than expected sincere regards IPO is the recruitment process and I will stick my neck out and say that was probably entirely due to the recruitment agencies. They would have screened the candidates and done much of the work, besides which they were no doubt keen to get paid and the sooner the managers were employed the sooner they would have got their money.

It also says in that RNS that new territories were due to go live as soon as the new managers were recruited. I haven't seen any despite some of these managers being on the payroll for a month.

We were getting update after update when there was nothing much going on and now things should at last be taking off we cannot get a word out of anyone. It is very annoying (and rude too).

There are clearly 2 examples in my post, numpty. Use of T1 & T2 managers and Brighton not to mention the Tech deal - that's 3!!!!!!

Sanj interviews badly, bumbles away in a manner reminiscent of Dave Sefton, and at times talks a lot of nonsense. I am not interested in a word he says unless it is directly related to signing up restaurants and the sooner he and his team get on with that the better.

They might have restaurants lined up and waiting to go live in bulk but maybe the management should work out that a restaurant live on the App could actually bring Big Dish some much needed revenue while one already signed but not yet live cannot. Also it looks bad to the restaurant - and unprofessional too.

Sanj doesn't half talk some rubbish at times and that's a fine example of it.

Besides he changes his mind every two minutes so why should he stick to any of that.

We were clearly told that T1 & T2 managers were going to keep signing up restaurants all summer when the recruitment was in progress and then he changed his mind and sent them round to lose a third of the existing restaurants instead.

Brighton was built up for ages as being a big hub of activity and then he forgot all about that and it still has just 5 restaurants.

He cannot be relied on. He is slow and still has to prove himself in his current capacity with this company. Who gives a sh*t was he has done elsewhere.

Mercedesman

We already know the possible/probable rate of sign-ups. You are forgetting Bristol and Southampton where 20 restaurants were added in both locations in one month.

I would expect the rate to be when faster in London and other big cities and also when all 12 territories are signing simultaneously. Sales is all about third-party stories and getting restaurants added all around the country will speed things along.

An update from the management would be nice - just to let us know that something is happening. This is not the time for such a prolonged silence.