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Speaker 1: So the trip Advisor Travelers Choice Awards are out. This

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Speaker 1: is in hospital and Grove Restaurant in Auckland turns out

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Speaker 1: to be the ninth best in the world in its category.

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Speaker 1: Of the eight million listings worldwide, fewer than one percent

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Speaker 1: achieve this particular milestone. Anyway, the Groves owner is Michael Death,

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Speaker 1: who is with us. Michael, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike, So you were having me.

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Speaker 1: No worries it all. So you're in the fine dining

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Speaker 1: space for this particular one. How would you describe fine

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Speaker 1: dining generally at the moment in healthy spirits or not

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Speaker 1: so good?

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Speaker 2: Well, worldwide, it's pretty banged up. In New Zealand, it's

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Speaker 2: really rough.

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Speaker 1: So to get something like this is fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we have an attention to detail. We work

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Speaker 2: closely with some fantastic artisan producers and yeah, we have

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Speaker 2: a big team. It takes a big team to pull

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Speaker 2: this off.

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Speaker 1: How does the trip Advisory thing actually work. It's people

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Speaker 1: who are in and go there and fill out the

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Speaker 1: forms or the answer the questions or whatever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's an online platform for people that travel

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Speaker 2: the world. So when people from someone might be from

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Speaker 2: Egypt to one person might be from the Ukraine, one

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Speaker 2: person will be from Atlanta, Georgia. So people around the world,

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Speaker 2: they'll dine and then they'll leave some comments about your restaurant.

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Speaker 1: Would that be a fair representation, do you think? See?

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Speaker 1: Because I've been to a lot of restaurants, I've never

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Speaker 1: left an online comment in my life, So would this

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Speaker 1: be a fair representation with the people who come to

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Speaker 1: your place?

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Speaker 2: I think so. A lot of times when people leave,

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Speaker 2: when they leave the restaurant, they're just gushing there with

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Speaker 2: compliments and they love the place. And most people book

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Speaker 2: online these days. We always send out a little message

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Speaker 2: after they dine and saying we appreciate that you've dined

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Speaker 2: with us. If you like to provide us any feedback,

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Speaker 2: here is our email you can get in touch with us,

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Speaker 2: or if you'd like to leave a review, here's something

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Speaker 2: on trip Advisor with a link. And people go on

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Speaker 2: and leave leave their thoughts fantastic, and you know the

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Speaker 2: growth there has been. This is our twentieth year. We

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Speaker 2: celebrated our twentieth year in business this year, so we've

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Speaker 2: had a big year, a lot of celebration, so I

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Speaker 2: think we've been it's been consistent. We've been consistent for

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Speaker 2: a long time.

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Speaker 1: That's the trick. And I know, do you still do Baduci?

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Speaker 1: You're still running Baduci?

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Speaker 2: Yep, still yep. I'm there several times a day. Then

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Speaker 2: I'm back at the grove several times a day. I

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Speaker 2: have the shortest distance between Baduzci and the grove. Went

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Speaker 2: a few little minor illegal U turns.

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Speaker 1: There you go, because I'm Baduci's in the casual category

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Speaker 1: as well, So you're obviously doing something Hospo quickly your

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Speaker 1: take on it. In this economic environment at the moment,

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Speaker 1: in this country, where are we at with that?

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Speaker 2: It's pretty brutal. I won't lie, and now I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you you do feel like sometimes there's a conspiracy to

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Speaker 2: kind of kick us when we're down, you know, everything

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Speaker 2: from the bridge being out for a year connecting the

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Speaker 2: viaduct to the Windard Quarter. It's a bit ridiculous. How

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Speaker 2: long it takes, you know, a great nation like New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: we can't see him to get this bridge done, for example,

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Speaker 2: really just hurts us in a situation where it's already

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Speaker 2: a challenge.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're doing your best, Michael, and he won a

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Speaker 1: couple of great awards, and I congratulate you Michael Durth,

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Speaker 1: who's the Grove Restaurant also, but it's the top ten

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Speaker 1: fine dining in the country by the way. The Grove

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Speaker 1: Sales and Auckland, Jerboy, Steakhount in Queenstown, Logan Brown, Wellington,

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Speaker 1: Craigie Range, habloc Rata and Queenstown are he Auckland, Sidhart, Auckland, Paris,

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Speaker 1: butter Auckland, mud brick On Wayhicki Island. So there's some

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Speaker 1: there's all some flesh dining to be done in this

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Speaker 1: beautiful country of ours.

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