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Speaker 1: Back to the hospital industry where we discovered that despite

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Speaker 1: and we spent a bit of time on this yesterday,

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Speaker 1: we discovered that despite the narrative that things are dreadful,

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Speaker 1: are the numbers actually tell a different story. We are

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Speaker 1: seeing the industry breaking over fifteen billion dollars, which is

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Speaker 1: growth of five point eight percent. That's nationally places like

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Speaker 1: Queenstown and Hire and from feedback, First Table seems to

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Speaker 1: be as popular as ever. First Table is a local

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Speaker 1: invention basically half price or special deals when dining it

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Speaker 1: off pick times. Anyway, the founder and CEO, Matt Wei,

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Speaker 1: is with us on this Matt Morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike, thanks for having me on the show

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Speaker 2: this morning.

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Speaker 1: Not at all ten years and booming is that a

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Speaker 1: fair description?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ten years. It's been a long journey, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: things are tracking well.

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Speaker 1: Over a million accounts.

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Speaker 2: What does them mean?

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Speaker 1: Half a million accounts? It's half a million New Zealanders

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Speaker 1: who have an account open and use it.

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Speaker 2: That's right. That's over half a million people who have

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Speaker 2: signed up on the website or the app over the

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Speaker 2: last ten years.

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Speaker 1: And are they one offs or regulars or what?

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Speaker 2: A lot of them are one offs? But then there

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Speaker 2: are certainly people that are using the platform on a

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Speaker 2: regular basis. There are customers that are monthly using First Table.

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Speaker 1: What's your read on the I mean, the reason I'm

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Speaker 1: interested is because we have this picture at the moment

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Speaker 1: where everything is absolutely miserable, and yet when you actually

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Speaker 1: look at the stats, the money's up, the number of

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Speaker 1: people are up, the number of outlets is up. What's

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Speaker 1: going on?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that's I think some restaurants are experiencing

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Speaker 2: chat challenges right and some are doing well. So it's

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Speaker 2: not just a plain story of everyone's having a hard

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Speaker 2: time at the moment. So it's something that we're very

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Speaker 2: much aware of and we're very very much focused on

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Speaker 2: helping restaurants solve a small part of their problems.

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Speaker 1: And so are people. Is there still an awareness thing

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Speaker 1: around this or is everybody know? And if you know,

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Speaker 1: you use it?

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Speaker 2: So First Table. I mean, as we said, there's five

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand people who have created an account, but we're

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Speaker 2: doing it. We're doing a lot in sales and marketing

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Speaker 2: at the moment, so we're bringing on a lot more

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Speaker 2: restaurants and a lot more diners. And also the word

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Speaker 2: of mouth element is one of our strongest referral channels.

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Speaker 2: So people are definitely talking about First Table at the moment.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Nice to talk to you, Matt, Appreciate it

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Speaker 1: and go well with it. Matt Wia whose First Table

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Speaker 1: founder and CEO. And I'm just looking through the various

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Speaker 1: places in christ Your Strawberry Fair in christ which you

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Speaker 1: can't beat that. If you can get that for high price,

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Speaker 1: you're laughing. The Bunker's fantastic, Queenstown half price, it's not bad.

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