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+BeardedDragon
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Just tried for IRO 1mill shares (£3.35k - ish). Negotiated trade. Hasn't gone through after 10 mins.....

One of the small number of BigDish fully integrated chains (who haven't offered any seats for multiple months) are now offering their food via alternative channels
For delivery see https://wildwood.orderswift.com/ (linked to directly via their own website)
Google are fully integrated for table booking.

Pizza Hut aren't 'signed up'. BigDish just link to each Pizza Hut branch website with no integration at all. I doubt Pizza Hut even know about it.

https://www.investegate.co.uk/phimedix-plc/rns/potential-rto-candidate-and-shareholder-loan/202101181603460749M/

Potential RTO candidate and Shareholder Loan

The Board of Phimedix (AIM: PHM) is pleased to announce that it is in early-stage discussions with a company

No twitter account needed, just check https://mobile.twitter.com/PetroteqEnergy

Maybe not an RNS, but there were only 8 days in December that petroteqenergy didn't tweet. Very quiet so far this month, but perhaps we'll get some informal updates via that channel soon.

if you can smell smoke and you think the pilot may have ejected, it's ok to ask some probing and challenging questions.

If you're cruising along at altitude quite nicely (as we were a couple of months ago), then frightening the other passengers (perhaps to get their seat) is unforgivable.

This is an FTSE main index listed share. Shareholders deserve a status update before the oxygen masks drop.

I'm aware that the future here is hope for the venture builder model. However, the ability to convince startups that BigDish (or whatever it will be called) is a suitable technology platform innovator & builder is a track record. Currently, all they have in their portfolio is the BigDish dining & delivery app, so disscussion of it *is* relevant to their furture prospects.

It's clear that the BigDish dine-in/delivery app is no longer a going concern. The pizza hut etc adverts are simply links to these companies' own websites, so irrelevant. Bakers Baristas, Wildwood and Patisserie Valerie are all technically integrated, but haven't offered any seats for many months. Are they even aware the technology integration is still in place?

That leaves 38. A small enough a number to list here:

Beaconsfield : Toms Bistro
Birmingham : Beys Diner
Bournemouth : The Gate Of India
Brighton : Bardsley Fish And Chips, Cythereas Taverna, Market Diner Brighton, Regency Tavern
Edgware : Kenya Kitchen
Epping : The Merry Fiddlers
Kingston Upon Thames : The Albert Pub Dining
Liverpool : Clockworks
London : Brgr Ldn, Babur Restaurant, Boba Bar, Cellar107, Childsplay Hq, Chriskitch, Coffee Berry, Fayrouse Lounge, Goldfish, Goods Office, Grain Kitchen, Hungry Buddha, Islington Sports Bar Grill, Jaipur Of Chigwell, Kanada Ya, Le Madison Steak House, Mi Sushi, Mill House Cafe, The Indian Butler, Trevi Ristorante, Tropix London, Uzbek Corner, Vegan E
Manchester : Fress, Golden Nugget
Newcastle Upon Tyne : Cosy Dove
Twickenham : Brouge

I checked a few of the non-Tier 4 venues and they are open, but not offering any seats via BigDish. I think it's important for investors to know that the BigDish app is now effectively a technology template rather than a working (revenue-generating) platform.

Slim hope for the future remains, but that's all, and hope is not a strategy.

I'm still keeping my eye on this share, as I think it will soon be a candidate for a reverse takeover. Their LSE main index listing is quite valuable to an unlisted aspirational company. If/when this drops to my buy-in price, then I'll risk a punt on an RTO, but that's a long way below current price.

That's how I see it too. From time to time though I have to revise from multiple sources to re-figure it all out. Thanks for summarising.

no change since the 1st Dec
Locations count: 517
Restaurants: 1870
Advertising-only: 1728
Fully-integrated: 142
Delivering: 7

Counts data is all available to the public via the app / website.
Numbers are down on early Nov levels , but it's the first day of reloading the data. Perhaps it'll climb over the next few days.

Count on 4th Nov, just before lockdown 2
Locations count: 483
Restaurants: 2211
Advertising-only: 1728
Fully-integrated: 483
Delivering: 38

Count this eve:
Locations count: 517 (+34)
Restaurants: 1870 (-341)
Advertising-only: 1728
Fully-integrated: 142 (-341)
Delivering: 7 (-31)

Hello all. Shocked but not surprised by the fake news and false hope being peddled here by the recent new accounts.

Restaurants were not removed from the platform during the 1st peak (as claimed by one of the fairytale villans). Their removal is unprecedented. The chances of them being reinstated are slim to none. I wonder if Pizza Express and the like even knew that their restaurants were being advertised on the Big Dish app.

There is nothing left here except the micro-hope that this main index shell of a company becomes a canditate for a reverse takeover. IPOs are expensive. Buying a controlling share of LON:DISH when the share price has dwindled to 0.2p would be much cheaper.

Damage limitation time for those still invested I think.

+jyee7, they've been missing from the website for a few days at least. I thought it was just the website, as I could see them on the app, but this was because historical restaurant data was cached on my phone. Anyone installing the app for the first time today won't see any locations/restaurants.

sorry "ceased to operate" sounds like they've closed the business forever. That's not what I meant.

They have currently ceased to operate the dine-in service and the takeway/delivery service. The latter was deigned to support businesses during lockdown.

A formal explanation is required. They haven't responded to email for a while. Perhaps pressure on the nomad would be more effective.

if you clear your app data, Birmingham will disappear too. Sounds a little hopeful to assume it's lockdown related and that they'll return.

Their primary business function has disappeared which must surely warrant an RNS.

I was checking in to see if there'd been any movement on numbers / delivery service expansion, but found all restaurants and locations have gone! (this has been the case for days now). I thought it was just the website, as I could still see locations / restaurants in my BigDish Android app, but clearing cache & data resets this to 0 in the UK.

All that is left is a single location, Drogheda, in Ireland that has been there for a few months. It shows two Bakers and Barists venues with no availablity.

Have BigDish ceased operating? Anyone know what's going on?

Locations count: 483
Restaurants: 2211 (-1)
Advertising-only: 1728 (+1)
Fully-integrated: 483 (-2)
Delivering: 38

No real change for many weeks (and no status updates - unforgivable IMHO)

Each day that they failed to progress delivery onto iphone and Web, and provide no comms/updates, I reduced a little. I'm fully out now.

Good luck all...It could all come good tomorrow
Spero.

From 2019 : "Aecom uses graphene by Versarien to 3D print an arch that may modernize transport networks"
https://www.graphene-info.com/aecom-uses-graphene-versarien-3d-print-arch-may-modernize-transport-networks

At the time, it felt like this board breaking the news early seriously dampened the scale of the deal