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Very concerning we have load issues on the tech platform with such a low number of cities / restaurants live. We had a quite few months earlier in the year where the message was "we're getting the technology right so that we can press the button on the national roll out".

There must have been too much focus on BigDish features and not enough on capacity planning / load testing. This can be due to an inexperienced tech team or a senior team pushing for features at the expense of resiliency. As a basic rule-of-thumb, Dish should always be confident they can handle 100% more than the previous high water mark. More, if the ambitious nation roll-out plans start to take shape.

Load issues now is a crisis that needs immediate focus. With the modern day ability to scale your server 'fleet' horizontally in the cloud at a moments notice, load issues should rarely be seen. They shouldn't be discovered by users either - it's quite straightforward to programmatically generate load in a test environment. Monty said "They are also looking for someone with consumer e-commerce server experience". They should have been there from the beginning. Dish need a team of platform experts to provide 24 hour support, not one guy who gets ill / goes on holiday.

It's dropped ecause we've lost 24% of signed-up restaurants since the early June peak of 150. We needed Brighton to be good and it's arrived much later that expected with only 5 sign-ups. Reading was originally supposed to go live with it but had to be sidelined. The tech partnership new has gone quite too.

Keep the faith eveyone. It's just going to take longer than expected :(

Gregberry, not daily : "t is expected that the number of restaurants will increase quickly."
It could be days before we see any more. Let's not ramp expectation.

Grand plat, Plato grande, Grande piatto, Grote schotel etc (international expansion).

In-app payments is a good one. BigDish harvest a small transaction fee for every payment (PayPal / Credit card company style)

Restaurants will pay to appear on page one / top of results, or as a 'spotlight feature'

"The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data" Economist article, 2017.

just bought 13,656.

apologies Beebopalula, I wasn't calling you out on your 40k number. I just wanted to give a different, hopefully useful, perspective.

population counts
176k Bath - 20
187k Bournemouth - 46
535k Bristol - 37
253k Southampton - 20
87k Basingtoke - 7
129k Exeter - 10

According to worldpopulationreview.com, the UK has 95 towns/cities over 100k in population.
A bit less than the 40000 figure, but still massive scope for enormous expansion

I don't see Exeter on the website or the app yet. I wonder if they're testing segmenting the customer base somehow?
I do see Basingstoke, so I'm not seeing stale data.

I don't think an FTSE100 related surge in share price is a given... http://stockmarketalmanac.co.uk/2014/03/ftse-100-index-changes-effect-on-share-price-of-companies-joining-the-index/ It may happen, but don't bank on it. I'm still in and long btw

I miss Hool's contribution. The well informed jousting between the two of you was amusing and provided balance + good short/medium term insight. It certainly helped me make a few �� riding the highs and lows. Your long term prediction won in the end I'm pleased to say!

Supermarkets get a lot of stick for treating suppliers badly. Forcing prices down and dairy farmers out of business. Demanding straight carrots etc. Do we really expect supermarkets to have their entire supply of short-life fresh produce duplicated with standby suppliers? What do these standby suppliers do if the main suppliers are able to fulfil?

Safeway was the biggest grocery retailer in the UK in the 80s. Big names come and go. Woolworths, C&A, BHS, JJB etc etc

Fabled store is open. https://www.instagram.com/p/BI7bW0_Af22/?tagged=fabled and the website is live https://fabled.com

I've got used to Ledj's annoying vitriol levelled at the board over the last few months, but his comments about Tim Steiner's partner are misogyny. Is this forum moderated?

If DTB has recently bought, then a deal cannot be imminent. What are the rules at play here? Does that transaction start a legal window in which major news cannot be announced by the board? If it does, how long is that window?