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Tim Robinson: Delivereasy founder on New Zealand's growing appetite for takeaways · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Now New Zealand has been a collective one point one
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  Speaker 2: billion dollars how about that on takeaways in the first
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  Speaker 2: three months of this year, the likes of Uber Eats,
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  Speaker 2: deliver Easy and door Dash and so on. Tim Robinson
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  Speaker 2: is a co founder of Deliveries and with us High Tim.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, nice to talk.
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  Speaker 2: It's good to talk to you now. I heard apparently
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  Speaker 2: there was a sudden surge in just the last year.
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  Speaker 2: Have you seen that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's been a bit of a I guess I
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  Speaker 3: kicked back up as the economists maybe picked up a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. Yeah, we've certainly seen it coming through.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on? Why are we so into this? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like at one point one billion dollars in three months
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  Speaker 2: is a huge amount of money.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I'm certainly chapping in. It's I think
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  Speaker 3: it's convenience, mate, we all like it. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: think it did one of being convenience trends and I
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  Speaker 3: think food has been a huge one. In the minutes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's been an interesting watch that. It's yeah, definitely growing,
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  Speaker 3: maybe even everyone times a little bit taf People seemed
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  Speaker 3: to like the convenience and the comfort.
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  Speaker 2: Well, because it's a little treat, isn't it. Like, it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have to be super expensive. It can be fifty bucks,
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  Speaker 2: but you can treat yourself and it can come to you.
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  Speaker 2: If you've got little kids, you don't have to leave
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  Speaker 2: the house. It's just brilliant, isn't it. I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I've really leaned into this. Why should I go Deliver
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  Speaker 2: Easy over uber eats though, Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Mate, great question. Well here we owned, so we started
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  Speaker 3: here in twenty sixteen, so that's a complete news young
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  Speaker 3: owned and our creative business. Soph you're spending here, you're
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  Speaker 3: looking after local people, local jobs, and I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think in the last four years we've probably had
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  Speaker 3: twice the text over in his yarns, which is a
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  Speaker 3: bit of crazy step.
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  Speaker 2: With that in and of itself, I like, look after yourself. Tim,
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  Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Tim Robinson, Deliver Easy co founder.
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