COPPA COLLECTIVE PLC (COPC) — Introduction to Various Eateries Plc

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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Introduction to Verus Eateries PLC Investor Meeting. Throughout this presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions can be submitted at any time via the Q and A tab situated in the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type your answer and press send. The company may not be in a position to answer every question it receives during the meeting itself. However, the company will review all questions submitted today and publish responses where it's appropriate to do so. These will be available via your Investor Meet company dashboard. I'd also like to remind you that this presentation is being recorded. Before we begin, we'd like to submit the following poll. I'd now like to hand you over to Andy Bacidone, Chairman Ishao Malcov, CEO and Ollie Williams, CFO. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. First, I must briefly apologize for the absence of Hugh Osman. He's actually, as as I speak, he's on the phone to the government representing the hospitality industry and arguing about whatever's coming up and what trying to find out whatever's coming up for us in this sector. And he he will be joining us shortly. I'm Andy Bastoni. I'm the chairman. I have had some thirty years experience of opening restaurants mostly in The UK, mostly multiple restaurants, chains of restaurants. I started with those of you with older memories. They're my kind of town. Chicago Pizza Pie Factory, Chicago Rib Shack many years ago. It's small public company. Was very successful. And then I teamed up with Luke Johnson, and we started we acquired a little high end restaurants, the Ivy, Caprice, Jashiki, which is my first experience of running as a chief executive of high end restaurant group. And...