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Mike Egan: Restaurant Association President on Uber Eats expanding service into regional New Zealand · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: are planning to be at home on Thursday. So thank
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  Speaker 2: you Greg for sending that text. Through eighteen past five. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Uber Eats is expanding to twelve more towns across the
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  Speaker 2: country from November. Topaul Live in Masterton, Fakatana, you're all
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  Speaker 2: in for retreat, and then in the South Blenheim, Timaru,
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  Speaker 2: Ashburt and Warnica You're gonna get it as well. Owner
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  Speaker 2: of Monsoon Poon and president of the Restaurant Association, Mike
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  Speaker 2: Eagan is with us. Hey Mike, Mike, Now not everybody
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  Speaker 2: loves the old Uber Eats, But what do you reckon?
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  Speaker 2: Is this going to be good for these towns and
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  Speaker 2: the restaurants they're all bad?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think it's going to be good. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean we use Uber eight's it's just another you know,
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  Speaker 3: arrow in the quiver of getting to an audience, and
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  Speaker 3: people need a bit of convenient sometimes. And some of
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  Speaker 3: those locations that you've talked about, I can see, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the campgrounds are getting people will be sick of having
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  Speaker 3: snails on the barbecue and order up some mob eats
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  Speaker 3: if you had too many drinks in the sun to
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  Speaker 3: drive to your favorite restaurants.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So as a consumer, I see no downside
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  Speaker 2: in uber eats, right. It opens up all these restaurants
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  Speaker 2: that I can't be faft going to. What's the downside
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  Speaker 2: for restaurants.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there is a commission component to it, but if restaurants,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it might be five or ten percent of sooner,
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  Speaker 3: it's not. It's just a nice to have. It's great
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  Speaker 3: to get your brand out to people that maybe can't
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  Speaker 3: travel into the city to try your food, or they've
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  Speaker 3: got other transport shoes and they can get something just
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  Speaker 3: to eat. We've got one guy's had one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: thirty deliveries of our Vietnamese fass never even been to
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  Speaker 3: our restaurant, but that he likes this one dish and
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  Speaker 3: orders it all the time. So yes, just another audience brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Mike, thank you very much, really appreciate, added Mike Egan,
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  Speaker 2: owner of Monsoon Poon, Prisoners of the Restaurant's Association. Thank god.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of people knocking the Uber eats.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Can I say? This Uber eats everywhere please, and also
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  Speaker 2: Uber everywhere. If I have to go to a small
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  Speaker 2: town and there's not Uber eats an uber, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: disappointed because I'm like, oh wow, inconvenient and this is
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  Speaker 2: what I had to do in Melbourne, which actually isn't
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  Speaker 2: a small town, so more for me. But I just
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be I don't know, I'm not gonna make a
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  Speaker 2: very strong argument. Couldn't be faft And so in the
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  Speaker 2: end would put the little boy to bed and then
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  Speaker 2: one of us would go out sort of wandering the
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  Speaker 2: streets looking for something to eat. It's really inconvenient.
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