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Actually I've never once had a warning or a ban from the moderators over the nine years and over 5600 posts I've been using this board.

Reason: my posts are always based on fact or my own opinion and clearly stated as such and I do not make a lot of rude personal comments about other posters. The latter is what gets most posters banned.

It seems to be that one can talk about the company or the management in whatever way one chooses but do not get rude and personal towards other posters. That is what the moderators do not like and that is what is starting to appear here towards anyone who has a view that maybe this company is underperforming and has been ever since the IPO last August.

Signups running at -1 for the week so far.

Bath - 9
Bournemouth - 49
Bristol - 40
Southampton - 13

one seems to have dropped off Southampton so we have 111 in total as of now and 4 have been added so far this month.

You are totally making up these figures. In a post yesterday it was £30k/£40K a month and now today it's £40K/£50k a month. Either that's a very impressive growth over one day or your figures are just fantasy figures. What's tomorrow going to be - £50/£60K a month. All just fantasy nonsense until we actually have some revenue figures from Big Dish. And false information too. Some unsuspecting person may make a buy/sell decision based on your revenue figures.

As for my statements, which I may add are all my own opinion, they are based on the number of restaurant signings per day/per month so I should go and warn somebody else. These have slowed to almost a stop now in April and that is a fact. The one good thing about this business is that it is very transparent and we can see exactly how many restaurants are live on the platform and how many are being added every day.

Not that I'm enjoying counting them every day, especially these last few days when the number of new restaurant signings has fallen dramatically but it's just become a bit of a chore.

Of course eatigo, who are several years ahead of Big Dish with this yield management idea, have a very useful # sign by their a-z list which gives the exact number of live restaurants in each territory. That is something we may also have later when the restaurant numbers pick up.

AJMO - which for some of you who don't know means "All Just My Opinion".

32 restaurants added in March. 5 added in April so far. But more importantly no new territories have been added and the existing ones are not really adding much in the way of increased numbers.

This is all fact so I wouldn't start accusing me of false information when you are brazenly posting revenue figures as if they are real that you seem to have just made up completely. That is false information!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you still make a booking on the Table Pouncer website????

Sorry again. I'm not drunk I just have a bad keyboard that if I hit the wrong key when I'm typing - and I do type at a furiously fast speed so it can happen - it posts before I've finished. I apologise.

Anyway it's the 40 restaurants in London that are the worry. Why not transfer them to the Big Dish platform anyway. London should be a very easy territory to get a pretty good territory manager. As for numbers eatigo have 793 restaurants in Hong Kong, 700 in Sinagapore and 669 in Bankok. London should be equal to any of these cities so I would expect something in the region of 600 to 800 restaurants signed up in the big city. Anything less than this or a target of 200 or so would I feel be very poor and completely missing the potential for this business.

Does anyone know if the Table Pouncer website is still taking bookings. I know the App shunts people straight to the Big Dish App but does the website do the same. To be honest I've never registered and it blocks off after so many seconds and I don't know what is going on there or if that too shunts people to the Big Dish website.

It's the 40 restaurants in L

Fine time to stop and take a break with the summer fast approaching.

I thought this bunch had turned the corner and left the wasted days behind them but it doesn't look so. To be honest I'm disappointed.

Yawn, yawn, yawn.

AJMO

You are right. 49 in Bournemouth so 5 added so far this month and 112 altogether.

As for Tastecard, this new yield management platform knocks discount cards right out of the window. There is no need to sign all of the hundreds of thousands or millions of members - which must have been a total pain in the arse, especially as they all had to pay an annual fee - and the restaurants now just pay a small fee for every diner seated. A much, much, much better idea.

However, I still wish that Big Dish would get a bloody move on.

According to my calculations 4 new restaurants have so far been added in April. These are 1 more in Bournemouth, 1 in Bath and 2 in Southampton.

As of 5/4/2019 the current total is 111 which breaks down to:

Bath - 9
Bournemouth - 48
Bristol - 40
Southampton - 14

oh and Southampton - 14

According to my calculations 4 new restaurants have so far been added in April. These are 1 more in Bournemouth, 1 in Bath and 2 in Southampton.

As of 5/4/2019 the current total is 111 which breaks down to:

Bath - 9
Bournemouth - 48
Bristol - 40

I like the new website.

It looks far more like the Table Pouncer website than the previous Big Dish website which looked uncomfortably similar to the eatigo website. As Big Dish are several years behind eatigo on this yield management business it is better they have their own individuality and that is what the new website seems to have done. And if eatigo had in fact "copied " some aspects of the Big Dish website/App then obviously Big Dish can hang on to those parts anyway.

While the idea of yield management in the restaurant industry is obviously not copyrightable or patentable it is still best for Big Dish to set out to have their own distinctive look rather than be the spitting image of a competitor who is clearly several years ahead of them in what they are doing.

All just my own opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have never said that "they had abandoned Asia".

I pointed out that whereas the BigDish.ph website previously showed restaurants in Manilla, Jakarta and Hong Kong it then and now only shows restaurants in Manilla.

As for the App I was informed that the App in the Asian countries had been set to country-specific. This is something I have looked into and found can be done however I do not feel it is a very clever way of dealing with the problem which was that otherwise the Asian restaurants would have been appearing on the same App as the UK restaurants. I would assume they now have to use three different country-specific Apps for each area which is silly. Maybe calling the Asian App say Big Dish Asia would have been a better idea.

All just my opinion.

Alright don't turn into a psycho.

I posted that the App was down. That was a fact. It had been down since around midnight. That was a fact. I also said that that bookings would be lost. That was a fact too. I wasn't thinking the best or the worst - I was just stating a fact.

The App is back on again now. Big Dish Philippines is back on now. The UK website says "Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found." and is not back on.

This happened before a while ago and funnily enough once they were notified the App was down it was instantly back on. There may be ongoing "maintenance" on the website this morning but it clearly looks as if the App and BigDish.ph were off last night for "maintenance" but someone forgot to switch them back on.

All just my opinion.

Nothing's working. App is down - since midnight - as well as website and even Big Dish Asia website is down too. Time now 11.00am Saturday. Lots of lost bookings at this rate!!!!!

I'll repost that:

Seller has turned up today from somewhere - another 1 million at 2p after earlier sells of 1.6M, 1M and 500K.

Seller has turned up today from somewhere - another 1 million at 2p after earlier sells of 1.6M, 1M and 500K.

Tipping this over for now.

drax

"company set a target of 6000 within two years, 30 per week on average"

my calculator makes that 60 per week on average.

Anyone who cannot take a joke wants to pack it in. That was meant to be humorous. Of course we don't know why the territory managers have stopped signing up new restaurants over the last few days. It could be for any number of reasons.