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You are both being very childish and telling whopping porkies. If a restaurant is signed up and on the App, whether it's Big Dish or Discoeats, then you can just go ahead and book whatever table you want online, there and then. You do not have to phone them to see if they are on the App and what discount is being offered as that is all on the App. And please don't be so dim as to dispute what is on the App. Silly people. Whatever next.

When I say mobile phone I mean one that lets you download Apps - it's called a smart phone.

Applesauce

You are not understanding my post. I am not a restaurant. I have just downloaded the eatigo and discoeat Apps. I then get sales messages from the companies. If you have a mobile phone then try downloading the Apps and you will get messages too.

JOHN077

Your post is absolute rubbish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone mentioned AGM's yesterday. We haven't even had one yet despite the company floating over 1 year ago. No doubt monty5662 will attend and have a long chat with Aidan and Sanj about how well it's all going and what a cracking job the management are making of this growth company and then he'll come on the board here and tell us about how well the company are doing (and talk total nonsense as he likes to do).

Things are just not right here and the management should be made aware of this. This board has been a war zone for the past 3 months, ever since the company just stopped signing up restaurants altogether.

At the beginning of June the share price peaked at 9p, there were 150 restaurants on the platform and the plans were proceeding for the nationwide roll-out.

Since then the share price has dropped from 9p to sub 3p, the restaurant count has mysteriously dropped from 150 to just over 100 and the only new restaurants added in nearly 3 months were the disappointing 5 in Brighton on 11th July which were accompanied by:

" Sanj Naha, CEO commented:

"The addition of Brighton to the BigDish platform is incredibly exciting. We expect the location to be a major hub of BigDish activity and are looking forward to seeing more and more restaurants added."

The same RNS also said:

"Further to the announcement on 2 July 2019, the Company believes that Brighton will be a significant location for BigDish. Initially, a select number of restaurants will be available on the platform, and it is expected that the number of restaurants will increase quickly."

Of course no more have been added in the 6 or 7 weeks since then.

As for the nationwide rollout, we were told that 3 managers joined in the 1st week of August and another 3 in the second week and along with the existing managers for T1 and T2 that makes 8 managers and YET NOT ONE SINGLE NEW RESTAURANT HAS APPEARED ON THE APP DURING THE WHOLE OF AUGUST.

Just as bad is that the company haven't even bothered to RNS exactly what the plans are for this rollout. We have been told nothing.

Personally I am not impressed with Sanj. Anything he has done with previous companies counts for nothing as it is what he does here that is important. He is slow, makes wild overstatements and doesn't even seem to care. In my opinion he is incompetent and an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and I never registered with eatigo or discoeats. They do not have my email address so I don't think they are even emails. They are just messages they are able to send to the handset that downloaded the APP. All probably too high tech for Big Dish!!!!!!!

Since downloading the eatigo App many months ago I have had an email every day with offers, promotions, reminders, etc despite never booking with them and not even being within 5000 miles of their nearest restaurant. Sometimes I even get 2 emails.

Yesterday I downloaded the Discoeats App and a few seconds ago got an email from them. 50% off discounts, etc.

But I have never yet got one single email from Big Dish despite downloading the App more than a year ago.

WAKE UP BIG DISH. They seem to be content to bring up the rear and be the worst at what they do. This is just not good enough. And what the f*ck are they paying Loud-Mouth Media for - nothing I suppose. And they certainly do not need any Brand Ambassadors as yet or to be sponsoring any award ceremonies. They just cannot seem to get it right.

Finally I do believe there is a bit of a clash of interests going on here which is not helping things.

We are all shareholders & want the share price to rise as much as possible, obviously. The directors, with their large holdings, have talked from the beginning of possibly selling the company at a certain value so they too need this to succeed and, to ensure that, the company will need to get on with building the business.

Sanj, however, is just here on a salary & has very little interest in the share price and even less in what factors may move it. He can take as long as he wants to get this up and running and the longer he strings it out the more salary he earns. If a competitor turns up what has he got to care.

It seems to appear that Aidan has more or less left the UK expansion up to Sanj alone but Sanj just doesn't have any motivation to get a move on while the share holders and directors, who are only too aware of the lack of new signings and the very poor share price, are unable to do anything except get increasingly more frustrated.

What I think needs to happen is for Aidan to speak to Sanj and make it very clear to him that this is a public-listed company and that here are a lot of shareholders here who, in one way or another, do not appreciate this slow pace and lack of signings. He needs to be on Sanj's back all the time making sure that these territory managers are getting on with the job they are being paid to do.

That way everyone will be happy and Big Dish will have the restaurants signed to their App rather than Discoeats or some other competitor.

This ends my thoughts for now.

ATB

Thank you drax. I do try and although I admit that I'm a bit harsh at times it is all meant for the better.

I have confidence that this will come good but it has been a rocky ride so far and they have it all still to do. It was dreadful at the end of last year and then they suddenly got on with it and the mood here improved as did the share price.

But then come June it all just stopped again. I know that Sanj has been busy with the recruitment for the nationwide roll-out but even so there was no excuse for the T1 & T2 managers not continuing to sign new restaurants through June, July & August nor for the new T3 manager not to be adding in Brighton in August as we were told was going to happen. And this lack of action has been reflected in the share price falling right back to 3p and even into the 2p's.

As soon as they get back to signing up new restaurants to the App the better.

Another thing that I've noticed (that the management don't seem to have twigged) is that when Big Dish get busy signing new restaurants to the App the share price always seems to rise.

Then, when they stop signing up new outlets for whatever reason - and to be honest there shouldn't ever be a reason to stop adding outlets at this early stage - the share price seems to fall back.

Now without being Nostradamus or Einstein I think it's quite easy to work out the correlation between the signing of new restaurants and the share price.

I agree that discoeats photos are better - bigger and clearer. Big Dish photos all seem to be slightly blurred.

And the same goes for the chains except the management here seem a bit slow to work it out. If they just sign up the independent restaurants then the chains will see a busy, vibrant platform and want to be part of it. Once the independent numbers get to 1000, 1500, 2000 then the chains will be begging to get listed.

However if Big Dish start talking to them when there are only 100 restaurants on the App they will just tell BD to **** off or put them on some endless trial.

Simples.

Continuing on from my post yesterday that explained how user numbers will increase at a far greater rate as more restaurants are signed I have also been monitoring the way the restaurants approach their discount offers

In Bournemouth one of the restaurants, Wildwood, has started offering 50% discounts all day on weekdays. Then I noticed that several other restaurants have followed this and are doing the same or offering the 2 for 1 all day. And several others are now offering extra 50% off slots along with the customary 2 per day.

This is the way this business can grow. These restaurants see a competitor offering more discounted slots and with the fear of missing out on diners they follow suit. This will work even more in the big cities where restaurants are all competing for the city centre diners.

Also once one diners starts offering discounted weekend slots more will follow until they are all doing it.

Simples. Just needs the nationwide roll-out to get up and running.

According to the last few RNS's it has given the contact details as:

Zak Mir, Digital Communications Officer with a phone number.

It used to give the PR Company, Blytheweigh and I don't know if they are still acting as such.

I have not come across Zak Mir in this role for any other companies. I believe he used to work closely with Justin Waite at Vox Markets but he doesn't seem to be doing their charts and interviews any more.

Does anyone know more?

I fear that come tomorrow some sad individual will have this Re: Discoeat thread deleted which will be a shame as it's brought out a few home truths.

Good news: the nationwide roll-out is due to start in September.

Bad news: there's still a week left till we get to September.

jsmith 23

As long as the nationwide roll-out starts in September, as we have been promised, then yes. We can see 10p, 20p and even 50p. And I am on about share price and not monty5662 and Aidan's revised downwards pricing of the table booking fee!!!!!!!!!

There is still all to play for here and Big Dish still have the UK market but they do need to get on with it.

Users and revenue will increase exponentially (I believe that is the correct word) which means that as the number of restaurants increase the user numbers will increase at a much higher rate as the business becomes better known.

So, for example, while 100 restaurants may attract 100 diners per month (1 per restaurant) a jump to 1000 restaurants may attract say 5000 diners per month (5 per restaurant) and 5000 restaurants may attract 125,000 diners per month (25 diners per restaurant). This happens as the platform becomes better known, through word of mouth and recommendations, reviews, etc, etc, etc. (These are just hypothetical figures to show what I am saying).

But it still all needs the restaurants to be signed up as quickly as possible.

We haven't heard a word from the directors since the Annual Report was published and that was nearly 4 weeks ago. Are they too embarrassed or have they just realised they won't be able get away with all their false claims - like the one on the Social Media job recruitment that said that "Big Dish had already started a highly successful business in the Far East".

The actual wording was as follows:

"BigDish Plc is a London Stock Exchange listed food technology company already highly successful in the Far East and after initially rolling out in the South West and South Coast is now busy signing up restaurants all over the country."

I'll leave that for people to make their own decision but they were able to get away with those sort of claims before the Annual Report bared all.

According to monty5662 in a recent post he claims that Big Dish Asia may not be charging any longer to seat diners. That is no doubt information he was given by his buddy Aidan Bishop, and may or may not be another example of Aidan not quite telling the truth or making things up to suit his agenda.

If they are not taking any revenue any more then can he please explain the "Administration Expenses" according to the Annual Report of £204,915 for Hong Kong, £149,255 for Indonesia and £52,960 for the Philippines. These are UK Pounds and not dollars. These admin expenses were set against revenue of £4,062 for HK, £859 for Indonesia and £4,420 for Philippines.

The problem with monty5662 is that he still listens to every word the management say and he still believes it all to be the Bible truth. Maybe he needs to start looking at the facts and thinking outside of the box a little more.

Beebopalula was a total "Yes" man and couldn't find any fault with the company and look what good that attitude did him.

I am not talking rubbish. And as monty5662 has pointed out in the past this concept is proven - but as we can see from the recent accounts it seems to be a proven concept only by eatigo and as I've said all along the Big Dish management still need to prove themselves and that they can run a successful business.

Big Dish Asia with running costs of £400,000 and revenue of less than £10,000 is not a success and does nothing to prove this concept and does nothing to prove that the management here are competent.