TORTILLA MEXICAN GRILL PLC (MEX) — H1 FY26 Results

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Good afternoon, and welcome to the TORTILLA MEXICAN GRILL PLC Investor Presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation, investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged and they can be submitted at any time using the Q and A tab situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Simply type in your questions and press send. Before we begin, I would like to submit the following poll. And I would now like to hand you over to CFO, Richard Haley. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks for joining us. So I'm Richard Hay. I'm group CFO at TORTILLA, and my colleague here is Brandon Stevens, the founder and group CEO of the business. We'll be taking you through the half one f y twenty six results, also the f y twenty five results as well, but focusing very much on this half and also touching on the quarter. Brandon's also gonna update you on the strategy, and he'll start with a lead in to what we've been up to for the last eight months since he came back into the business as as the founder. So let's get stuck into it. This is us. Do want to Yeah. Quick introduction. So my name is Brandon Stevens. I'm the founder of TORTILLA. Started the business in 2007 in Islington, grew the business to 15 sites over seven years with five rounds of financing. Hired in a managing director, Richard Morris, who then successfully grew the business for the next decade or so up to a a sizable level. We IPO ed in 221, acquired our, one of our competitors, Chilango, and then acquired Fresh Burritos in France. And that brings us to our our present day now. Yeah. I'm Richard, as I said, this is group CFO. My background is in a lot of other consumer businesses, retail, entertainment, and as well as hospitality. So let's get into what we've been up to the last eight mont...