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A different way of doing the same thing...
That, essentially, is the thought behind uWink, a soon-to-be three-unit casual-dining chain in Los Angeles. The brains behind uWink is Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese.
The innovation at the 150-seat restaurant is the technology platform driving the entire operation. Customers order food and pay for it via tabletop computers. Servers act as “entertainment concierges,” key because as they dine, customers are likely using tabletop computers to play games with dinner companions, customers at a table across the room or, as more uWinks open, customers in other cities.
The technology allows the manager to change uWink's environment as the demographic changes: softer music and more light for family time, louder music and racier games for later in the evening.
“We spent years building the platform,” says Chief Technology Officer Brent Bushnell, who is Nolan Bushnell's son. He is so confident that uWink occupies a unique niche that he plans to sell the technology to other restaurant concepts.
As for the name? “We wanted a word that was short and fun and flirty,” Brent Bushnell says. “The 'u' stands for putting you in control, and the wink is a fun social gesture.”
http://www.chainleader.com/article/CA6552742.html
uWink (Finally) Ready to Expand
It's been in test almost two years, and now uWink, the latest techno-concept from Atari and Chuck E. Cheese creator Nolan Bushnell, is about to expand.
In June, the second uWink will open in Hollywood. The third is slated to open later this year (July IMO) in Mountain View, Calif. Additionally, OCC Partners LLC, a Miami-based franchisee, signed an agreement to open three uWink restaurants in Miami-Dade County over the next four years.
Like Chuck E. Cheese and more adult-oriented Dave & Buster's, uWink marries food with technology. The first location, in Woodland Hills, Calif., seats 150 and offers a basic menu of burgers, pasta, sandwiches and pizza ($9 to about $11). The check average is $16; alcohol accounts for about 20 percent of sales.
Fifty to 70 computer games are available either free or for purchase with credits. Servers, or "entertainment concierges," help ensure that guests get the games that they want and that those games are appropriate for the tables' demographic makeup.
Family Friendly
Guests at uWink can order food from their table or play games with other customers. There, the similarities between uWink and other tech-driven concepts end, says Brent Bushnell, chief technology officer at uWink and son of Nolan Bushnell.
The biggest difference: It's a restaurant that happens to have games, not a gaming parlor that happens to have food. Brent Bushnell says the development team worked hard on the menu, which Alissa Tappan, uWink's director of marketing, describes as "modern comfort food." Customers, she says, "are enjoying the food as much as they enjoy ordering in on the touch screens."
The light, contemporary decor also reinforces uWink's position as a restaurant. Food accounts for 80 percent of sales; the restaurant grosses about $3.2 million a year, between $500 and $700 per square foot, Tappan says.
Brent Bushnell says uWink attracts more women than it does Dungeons & Dragons nerds and is more socially oriented than Dave & Buster's. That's largely due to the game lineup, which offers Scrabble and Yahtzee as well as more competitive offerings, among them Pong and foosball as well as USI, uWink Scene Investigation, a riff on the popular TV show "CSI."
Creating the "fun for all" atmosphere took work, says Ian Cesa, partner at ib4e Partners, the Los Angeles-based consulting firm that helped uWink translate its technology into a user-friendly atmosphere before the first store opened in October 2006. "You have a guy like Nolan Bushnell and his team, and they're all technologists," Cesa says. "Their point of view is technology, not the customer."
Via focus groups, ib4e helped uWink choose games that were competitive but also offered self-improvement. Those games, he says, would help attract and retain female guests: "The value is because you learned something, not because you beat someone," Cesa says.
Value Engineered
Other adjustments, mostly in the name of value, have been made in the two years since the concept first opened. "Everything was a test to see what customers thought was the best value," Brent Bushnell says.
One example: Customers originally had to purchase credits to play games. Now customers earn credits as they order food and drinks. uWink also now offers prizes to game winners. An easy-game win might earn a candy bar; a more difficult win, an iPod or Xbox. "People compete with each other, trying to win the iPod first," Bushnell says.
A selection of a dozen or so party packages ($20 to $50 per person) also increases uWink's perceived value. Party hosts can ask uWink to program the computers at their tables to match the theme of the party. For instance, the menu for a children's party might not offer alcohol, says Alissa Tappan, uWink's marketing director.
So far, uWink has succeeded in attracting a mixed demographic, ranging from singles to couples to families with grandparents in tow. The secret, Brent Bushnell says, is that the concept really is the next technological step after interactive Web sites. "We're really bridging the gap between the Internet and the physical location," he says.
http://www.chainleader.com/article/CA6554433.html
Duh! - “Hollywood & Highland is the epicenter of Hollywood and the entertainment industry, which fits perfectly with uWink’s mission and demographic.”
“We loved this location from the moment we saw it,” said Nolan Bushnell, chief executive officer of uWink.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070507005401&newsLang=en
Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign.
uWink Custom Corporate Events - May 28th, 2008
PROBLEM: Your company is launching its new product or service and needs a great place to introduce it to potential customers. The environment needs to highlight the new product or service in an innovative way to really showcase how “cutting edge” it is, and to leave the potential customers with a positive impression of not only the product or service but of the company as a whole.
uWink Solution: We have just the place! uWink features large wall projections which exhibit revolving dynamic imagery allowing the restaurant to change its vibe at a moment’s notice. This dynamic imagery can be customized for your product or service. Just picture your company’s newest product coupled with company logo splashed over all the walls in crisp, high resolution. Your custom power point presentation or even product and company videos can be displayed! And that’s not where it ends. Every table (and at the bar) at uWink has a touch screen terminal where guests can order food, drinks, and play games. These terminals can be customized to have your own graphic starter page and our question engine that allows guests compete against each other, can be customized with questions about your new product and company!
Whether it’s a team building, product launch, corporate rebranding, or company-wide party, if it’s at uWink, they will be bathed in an interactive dynamic environment that will leave them with a positive and excited attitude towards your stated objectives.
Come on in and customize your experience! That’s the ‘u’ in uWink!
http://blog.uwink.com/
Apparently you Missed the SIX SIGN Images
"uWink Hollywood - Getting Closer" (per the Blog update of May 26th) was the point of my post. - Yes, the Credit Card Fraud article was worthwhile, but it has been up on the Bistro Blog since May 19th.
Hope you still think me helpfull in pointing out the point...
Another sign that uWink Hollywood is getting closer to opening.
http://blog.uwink.com/
Sandy - Always more to Smile about...
Meanwhile...remember these past uNotations...
“Based upon the Company’s cash flow projections for the next 12 months, the Company requires approximately $3.0 million per annum to fund its operations. Giving effect to the completion of the November 2007 registered equity offering, the Company has sufficient working capital to operate through fiscal year 2008”
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108699/000101968708001411/uwink_10ksb-010108.htm
..."we intend to use the available proceeds to build out and operate the new Hollywood & Highland and Mountain View locations, which, together with our Woodland Hills location, should lead to corporate cash flow breakeven once the restaurants mature over the next 18 months."
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108699/000104746907008322/a2180667zposam.htm
Try not to assume their full stratagy...
"Following the opening of our two new company-owned uWink restaurant locations, we expect to emphasize franchising and technology licensing over the development of additional company-owned uWink restaurants."
Remember...
Going further forward, their strategy is to leverage their technology assets and the uWink brand to:
Build and operate additional uWink interactive entertainment restaurants;
Franchise the uWink restaurant concept; and license their technology to other hospitality and public-space operators.
While they FOCUS on the then-current 3, of course they would then EMPHASIZE franchising and technology licensing, while contemplating uWink #4.
BB's - uWink is a technological / restaurant play, and a restaurant / technological market play.
http://www.volantesystems.com/clients.html
uV means very high profit margins and adds increasing revenue as clients update their integration... uV is NOT any deviation from the Plan – uV was part of the uWink Marketing Strategy from almost the very beginning as they were first laying their interconnection cables in their Woodland Restaurant. Again - uWink has not now... Just become a technological play – It Always WAS ONE (as I’ve said previously).
Via a table, sell some food and drinks = one deal (repeat idea)
Via software, sell solution to many = many deals (idea repeats)
Restaurant Revenue grows w/# of places and # of seats (occupied).
Software Revenue grows exponentially with each client's # of nodes.
(Plus add reoccurring updates and upgrades which add additional $$)
uV Will Provide an Ever Increasing Software Revenue Stream Expansion.
uW Restaurants Expansion will add an ever increasing # of Seats Expansion.
uWink: The power of “u”
http://blog.uwink.com/
From the moment you walk into a typical restaurant, it is you, the customer, conforming to the way the restaurant wait staff operates, not the other way around.
You are led through your meal from stage to stage with as much care as possible until you are out the door with a hearty tip left on the table.
What would it mean for you to be in control of this process?
What would it mean for the restaurant to conform to you?
That is the world we are moving towards faster and faster each day and one in which uWink is leading the charge. It is one driven by technology’s powerful ability to tailor the customer experience down to the individual who is right there, right now.
That is the “u” in uWink. It is the power of you in the ordering process. You are in control of what you order and when you order it. You are in control of your restaurant experience.
Form 10-Q for UWINK, INC.
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/080515/uwki.ob10-q.html
We also believe that the software platforms and touch screen terminals we have developed, and are continuing to develop, can be deployed more broadly in the hospitality and public-space markets including in hotels, casual/fast food restaurants, bars, apartments, universities, stadiums, theme parks, casinos, and golf and ski resorts.
Going forward, our strategy is to leverage our experience and software assets to operate and franchise the uWink interactive entertainment restaurant concept, as well as to license our technology to other hospitality and public-space operators. Following the opening of our two new company-owned uWink restaurant locations (described above), we expect to emphasize franchising and technology licensing over the development of additional company-owned uWink restaurants.
I smile as I say nothing about everything.
Vivasoft knew M6 5 days ago, catch up...
:)
Quite Right - M6
I replied to TBG ONLY, who was "suspicious"
BTW: I make no "snide remarks", try reading my post replies made to Someone Else with that bit of reading comprehension, before you so clearly accuse me of making "snide remarks" (my reply to TBG was Not to you, nor did I direct his "makes me suspicious" with his... "worst case it could be like a Ponzi scheme." crapolla, in my reply post at you, or towards you). And... if I ever choose to insult someone, it will be a private reply to them, and they will clearly know that they were insulted...FWIW: If I ever have something insulting to say to someone, it will not be as a snide remark...
My 2nd BTW:
My convertible note provided me $2 shares & w/stock warrants.
For if/when I choose to buy such (warrant) shares LATER at $2.40
I have up to FIVE YEARS from the offering closure date, to do so...
AGAIN - A warrant is the right to purchase at an exercisable price ($2.40) at a later time. - up to the fifth anniversary of the closing date. The warrant is MY 'right to purchase' (it's not a $2.40 share I, or you, have now. Nor are they free, for me, or FOR ANYONE ELSE - I and/or you will need to pay $2.40 to acquire...). Nor do I Have to sell any such $2.40 'warrant right' shares I may purchase... at $4.80 ANYTIME LATER...
RE: Your Warrants... - Call Nancy Nino Monday to explain warrants to you.
Nancy Nino - (818) 909-6030, ext. 102
How much further far off can you guys go...
The franchise profile Never left, just look to the right side...
http://www.uwink.com/franchiseprofile
A warrant is the right to purchase at an exercisable price ($2.40) at a later time. In this case, a buyer (of stock in past offering) would be able to exercise their 'warrant' anytime on/or after the closing date of this offering - up to the fifth anniversary of the closing date. Please Note...the warrant is the 'right to purchase' (it's not a $2.40 share for free).
________________________________________________________
11/09/07 Warrants to Purchase 5,491,450 Shares
We are offering to sell to the public up to 5,191,750 shares of our common stock and warrants to purchase up to 5,191,750 shares of our common stock in "units". For each unit purchased in the offering, investors will receive 1 share of common stock and warrants to purchase 1 share of our common stock at an exercise price of $2.40 per share. Upon the closing of the offering, the units will separate and the common stock and warrants will be issued separately. The warrants may be exercised at any time during the period commencing on the closing date of this offering and ending on the fifth anniversary of the closing date.
The warrants will be exercisable on or after the closing date of this offering through and including the fifth anniversary of the closing date and will be exercisable at a price of $2.40 per share of common stock.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108699/000104746907008795/a2180968z424b1.htm
Between these suspicions, the warrants, and those ? valuations (LOL) you guys could not be any further off base from reality...
LOL - I Resign - Goodbye
U referred to "cash flow situation" - provided answer
We are currently evaluating a number of potential sites for our third NEW company-owned restaurant and our current intention is to open that restaurant late Summer/early Fall 2008.
uWink #4
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108699/000101968708001411/uwink_10ksb-010108.htm
Based upon the Company’s cash flow projections for the next 12 months, the Company requires approximately $3.0 million per annum to fund its operations. Giving effect to the completion of the November 2007 registered equity offering, the Company has sufficient working capital to operate through fiscal year 2008 and, therefore, to remove the doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Consequently, at January 1, 2008, there is NO LONGER substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108699/000101968708001411/uwink_10ksb-010108.htm
Thank You Big Guy for this posting of 'common sense' on how the market actually works...
"I think people should put orders in at whatever price they want."
"I see stocks take sudden dips and upswings" - Yes, and smart stock traders will always trade on those swings!
As Always - My Best Regards to Board Buds, Netman
(of course..., My Personal Stalker Will Disagree... - lol)
TO: The Netman Nine - Info to continue - via PM's and/or email.
You Guys sure assume a lot in a quick comment
On 3/11/2008 at 10:36:47 PM
I simply replied to iwink2 about his comment…
I posted:
“I'll buy up to 10K <$1.35 (to add w/90K)”
In the Same post, I also posted this very Informative uWink quote - of their words w/link:
..."we intend to use the available proceeds to build out and operate the new Hollywood & Highland and Mountain View locations, which, together with our Woodland Hills location, should lead to corporate cash flow breakeven once the restaurants mature over the next 18 months."
AT THE TIME of my POST, the PPS was at $1.40 with shares traded so far… - There sure has been a LOT of focus on my quick minor comment (first by my senior stalker of course).
But No notice of these words posted “UP TO”, little notice of the < (less then) symbol.
But No notice of the words “I’ll buy” (which does not mean I put in a buy order right then - lol)
And Much More Importantly…
No comments at all ? on the much more interesting words – the quoted uWink words!
Dudes!,
When / if I put in a Trade, I will post I PUT IN A TRADE at $X.XX as I’ve always done!
Jeezzz…I am close to 100K w/90K currently, and am bemusing on holding 100K shares
Good God Guys, is everyone here a frustrated unemployed PPS ANAl..yst? – LOL!
AND…..
I was SO tempted to stay out of this PPS babble on Stock PPS – But if you Want the answer!
Stock price action is redirected on a moment-by-moment basis on the current sum knowledge of All the market players and their actions, or their inaction, at any given moment in time. ALL ANAL…yst’s are rendered inert and obsolete the moment the market moves again in real time based on all the current reasons that are known NOW, that were Not known Just a millisecond moment prior (in real time). Overall Perception will always become Reality very quickly in this global mass money momentum market. - We as Traders / Investors will never know all that sum knowledge at each given moment a price action changes (We May not know, but that does not mean it does not exist to cause an action / reaction). That's the problem with the future; it changes constantly based on the next set of current events / news / actions that have yet to occur…………….which is why you watch out for WHAT’s COMING IN DUE TIME!!
BTW: The different Various Opinions (of all the market players - not just referring to the few posters here) all translate into various actions, which may translate into various market action, which makes the stock market the great grand chess game that it is. I enjoy That Market Game and respect all of the players here that actually have their own money in play, and not just their mouth..
You, of all T.V. Drinkers should not be ________
To Quote Your Favorite Poster - You!
"Well, I just don't think the MM is that powerful. I think they want to buy at the bid and sell at the ask..."
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=27315008
btw: Since you clearly love to persist in answering Any / All of my posts and/or replies to others, I am sure you will have some more to say about me soon, since I have now Actually replied to you...It's Amazing... that any of 'my' posts can so easily distract you from your DKAM Board Dictatorship Duties...
Man, it must ____ to live your "life"...
Oh Yeah...
Nolan and uWink Will Win, and I Will Make MO Money (IMO),
and IF you show up at H&H, I'll Get U a Screwdriver w/TV in it...
I'll buy up to 10K <$1.35 (to add w/90K)
..."we intend to use the available proceeds to build out and operate the new Hollywood & Highland and Mountain View locations, which, together with our Woodland Hills location, should lead to corporate cash flow breakeven once the restaurants mature over the next 18 months."
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108699/000104746907008322/a2180667zposam.htm
exposure was ok, but the studio guy/gal were a dense pair. The field guy at the restaurant tried hard to portray the concept in the right light, but... all the dense pair in the studio could say is that they prefer having the person that welcomes them, and chats them up (like a servants social interaction aspect) - jeezzz, do these two news anchors not have any friends to go out with?.
Clearly this studio pair had no idea what a uWink is... or they would have grasped something more about uWink. The field reporter touched the screen on a burger, but no touch at all on uWink's social interaction aspects, nor anything at all about game play, nor anything at all about...etc. etc (anything else...). Frankly... the short segment (as they selected a burger) made it look like any dine-in burger joint, but with menu screens to order your burger at your table (whatever happened to a little research on your subject story, before you go live with the studio...with just a bit of research, a lot more could then have been said by the field reporter, instead of us hearing how the two anchors need someone to talk with at a restaurant... get some friends news desk jockeys...)
Kinda disappointing IMO, yet it had some good comments like the NRA comment 'the restaurant of the future'. At least they got the uWink name right, and showed a screen with uWink on it, and of course any exposure at all on fox news is cool...and it has played quite a few times so far today...
H&H Center - uWink is on Level 4 (#411)
http://www.hollywoodandhighland.com/information_directorymap.php
http://www.hollywoodandhighland.com/dine_restaurants.php
255 California Pizza Kitchen
407 The Grill on Hollywood
400 Koji's Sushi & Shabu Shabu Restaurant
433 rise at The Highlands
423 Trastevere Ristorante Italiano
399 Twist (in the Renaissance Hotel)
411 uWink - coming soon!
uV means very high (future) profit margins and will add increasing revenue as clients update and expand their integration... uV is NOT any new deviation from the Masters Plan – uV was always part of the uWink Marketing Strategy from almost the very beginning as they were first laying their interconnection cables in their Woodland Restaurant.
uWink has not now... Just become a technological play – It Always WAS ONE - What recently become apparently clear is WHOM they have been working with for over a year, and what they have decided to call it (uV!), to implement THIS revenue subset of the Masters Plan.
http://www.volantesystems.com/selfservicetechnology.html
http://www.volantesystems.com/clients.html
Via a table, sell some food and drinks = one deal (repeat idea)
Via software, sell solution to many = many deals (idea repeats)
Restaurant Revenue grows w/# of places and # of seats (occupied).
Software Revenue grows exponentially with each client's # of nodes.
(Plus add reoccurring updates and upgrades which add additional $$)
uV Will Provide an Ever Increasing Software Revenue Stream Expansion.
uW Restaurants Expansion will add an ever increasing # of Seats Expansion.
2008 is Our Year (to look back on later) - Restaurants To Rock 2008 IMO:
RE: Woodland Hills – #1 is Kicking Butt, Increasing Revenue - uWink LIVE! is Raking in Money. #2 & #3 are on the horizon...
uWink has Always been a technological / restaurant play, and a restaurant / technological market play. Now that others (like Chris Fernandez) are applauding their varied virtues in articles, hopefully the surfing masses will catch on...(yes UN...this post is but an excerpt from my Jan 08 Post, just in case there are more folks 'out there', then the usual stalker neophytes lurking in NET LAND).
As Always - My Best Regards to Board Buds, Netman
(of course, My Assigned Stalkers will disagree...)
Netman Nine - Info to continue - via PM's and/or email.
"The new 6,500 square foot uWink restaurant -- which will feature touch-screen table displays capable of both placing orders and playing games"...
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/05/07/uwink-to-open-gaming-themed-restaurant-at-hollywood-highland
"using touch to order food in a restaurant, for example, whether it be from a terminal embedded in the table or the tabletop itself (come check us out in Hollywood for more on that)."
http://blog.uwink.com/
For those folks that did not READ the original releases (terminal tables).
uWink Web Blog Updated Today: "Ubiquitous uWink"
The concept of ubiquitous computing - i.e. that, as time goes on, computers will be integrated into everyday objects (like tables and refrigerators) that humans will interact with using touch or voice (rather than with a mouse and a keyboard) to do everyday things - is a “big idea” in the computing world. So, it’s pretty cool that we ended up mentioned in a Businessweek article about ubiquitous computing. Check it out here.
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/jan2008/id20080125_679652.htm?chan=innovation_innovation+%2B+design_top+stories
It’s particularly interesting to us, because, at a high level, one way we think of uWink is as a ubiquitous computing company. That is to say, on a “big picture” level what we are about is creating hardware/software that allows people to intuitively tap the power of digital technology to have fun/better manage everyday tasks in environments where that wasn’t technically and/or economically feasible before - using touch to order food in a restaurant, for example, whether it be from a terminal embedded in the table or the tabletop itself (come check us out in Hollywood for more on that).
Seeing us this way, is also one way of connecting the dots between what we are doing in the restaurant/hospitality space and our new licensing/development agreement for the senior housing market. You can read the press release on that here.
http://www.uwink.com/content/view/200/84/
What we are doing there is partnering with a very experienced real estate developer to offer intuitive one-touch technology designed to allow seniors greater independence at an affordable monthly rent. We are very proud of that.
http://blog.uwink.com/
Buck22 Reply Post #3679
Buck22 (Nolan) Questions - Netman Answers
1) 1 Rule: There are No Rules that Cannot be Bent.
You Will Build Them and They Will Come. - Nuff Said.
2) It is Both!
3) It is Both!
4) It is Revenue Frosting!
5) 1/3 the time of a non-existing place setup time!
6) Yes You Can!
Regards, Netman
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=25224790
uSoft 'spin-off' means very high profit margins and adds increasing revenue as clients update their integration...
Via a table, sell some food and drinks = one deal (repeat idea)
Via software, sell solution to many = many deals (idea repeats)
uWink is clearly covering all their revenue bases...
Restaurant Revenue grows w/# of places and # of seats (occupied).
Software Revenue grows exponentially with each client's # of nodes.
(Plus add reoccurring updates and upgrades which add additional $$)
Many people do not grasp that uWink is a technological / restaurant play, and a restaurant / technological market play. If they did...they would never ever complain about their not receiving their instant stock gratification on their overall stock return Investment IN Potential that this innovative and ever expanding concept creates...
A Premier 6500 square foot $$ Money Maker
http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/fetchFilingFrameset.aspx?dcn=0001019687-07-001284&Type=HTML
uWink replaces Brasserie Vert in Hollywood
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=6801+Hollywood+Blvd+Hollywood,+CA+90028&fb=1&geocode=15807426190306956908,34.101645,-118.338724&oi=manybox&ct=14&cd=1&resnum=3
Regarding New places and New places underway...
Locations for new restaurants (that may :) be) already found cannot / will not be announced until the deal is inked on each paper required, for each new place acquired.
Opening dates of new places already underway cannot / will not be announced until the appropriate time to state a date.
In post 15962 iwink2 asked for a prediction for the next place...
If I was asked to make a GUESS about the Two new places to open...
I would have to GUESS April 1 2008 for H&H
I would have to GUESS May 1st 2008 for M.V.
FWIW: To fully understand uWink (and their diverse revenue plans) and where the company and its stock PPS is to be headed... requires patience and a (understanding of the real world) rational of what it takes to accomplish required tasks versus how long it takes to accomplish such tasks... some have it...some never will...
Note: I try to base my own trading decisions on my own DD, research, evaluation, constant re-evaluation, insight and observations. Current UWNK trading action is STILL reflecting short-term price action trading in the overall scheme of things (try to think longer intervals with stock reactions with perspective to the company results and company / products / franchise potential). I believe most of the true FMV of this diverse company has yet to be priced in.
Of course, everyone else has to do their own DD, and then draw and constantly evaluate their own conclusions and then place their own bets accordingly. All just IMO (not advice / none given), we all make (and live with) our own investment and/or trading choices. I Wish You All the best in your own investment and/or trading decisions, I've obviously made mine...
My Best Regards, Netman
The saying for success is: "Buy into weakness, Sell into strength". This is, of course, for those who believe a company and its associated stock to be a winner in the long term (by hopefully judging by their own extensive DD efforts). Such Investors would naturally be viewing short-term PPS activity as a buy OP (with due respect to how the company itself is progressing) and would naturally be contemplating adding to their position, as each are able to do so…
When considering one’s own DD in reference to others DD and/or their individual perspective purported in their posting, it is best to weigh such posters (readily) available posting history, rather than any single or a few recent posts. While there are many posters on these boards who simply should not be believed, there are also a lot of good, informative, and successful traders, that are willing to share factual and verifiable information, and their own seasoned perspective on occasion. - Eventually, with a little common sense, most here will be better able to differentiate between the good and the bad amongst us… However…it should also be recognized that some… that will play their ‘games’ on-line, simply regard their own actions as one would on just any other Internet playground for the idle and ill trained mind to wander through…
uBuds-08 – uW is Covering all their Revenue bases.
2008 – a Post for all my Reg Board Buds – PM’s get Replies – Bad Kids, go find your own Info / Links
The Bad Boys (BS’ers , fake players, distortion dudes like to play by these Con Rules).
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=25667046
My Board Buds, all real investors, new people / newbies / lurkers looking for real info READ ON.
BB’s - uWink is a technological / restaurant play, and a restaurant / technological market play.
http://www.volantesystems.com/clients.html
uSoft 'spin-off' means very high profit margins and adds increasing revenue as clients update their integration... uV is NOT any deviation from the Masters Plan – uV was part of the uWink Marketing Strategy from almost the very beginning as they were first laying their interconnection cables in their Woodland Restaurant. uWink has not now... Just become a technological play – It Always WAS ONE (as I’ve said previously). What has become apparently clear is WHOM they have been working with for over a year, and what they have decided to call it, to implement a revenue subset of the Masters Plan
Via a table, sell some food and drinks = one deal (repeat idea)
Via software, sell solution to many = many deals (idea repeats)
Restaurant Revenue grows w/# of places and # of seats (occupied).
Software Revenue grows exponentially with each client's # of nodes.
(Plus add reoccurring updates and upgrades which add additional $$)
uV Will Provide an Ever Increasing Software Revenue Stream Expansion.
uW Restaurants Expansion will add an ever increasing # of Seats Expansion.
2008 is Our Year (to look back on later) - Restaurants To Rock 2008 IMO:
RE: Woodland Hills – #1 is Kicking Butt, Increasing Revenue - uWink LIVE! is Raking in Money.
THE NEXT TWO: As Nolan said in an interview, H&H & MV will cost less then 700K each. As uWink PR / SEC docs have noted, we are looking at late March to April 08. And Now that everyone knows…H&H will take over Wolfgang Pucks, MV will be located at…
Regarding uWink Franchises: Refer to Netman post #15255 if you would like reference details:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=24455665&txt2find=franchise
I would speculate that additional franchise deals are more likely to happen when uWink becomes a chain (as in more then one - will be 3 places soon enough – see above). Besides (Florida) OCC Partners… Perhaps additional franchise OP’s will occur sooner...seems less likely until a chain.
CANADA – Jefferson Partners – “The joint venture partners plan to establish uWink Canada as a separate, independently-funded Canadian fifty-fifty joint venture entity. Assuming prompt negotiation and execution of definitive agreements, the first Canadian uWink is expected to open late winter or early spring of 2008.”
"Canada is an area with tremendous potential, and is a perfect fit for uWink," said Nolan Bushnell, CEO of uWink. "This is the first step toward uWink’s international development plan and we look forward to further expanding our multi-lingual capabilities as we grow internationally."
In Brief - Canada is a pure profit wet dream w/software fees.
2008 Additional Places / PR – Look for more to come to blow your $$ Socks off my board buds.
Remember…I plan to Party in Las Vegas WITH MY FRIENDS when this hits my Money Mark!
As Always - My Best Regards to Board Buds, Netman
(of course, All My Assigned Stalkers will disagree...)
Not to burst your bubble - The press invite is a very cool uWink PR move. To somehow fantasize this means "that inquiries are drying up" is a 180 degree statement and/or comment from the reality (IMO).
You may "Watch and Wait" your way through April or 2009+, and may I politely suggest that just perhaps you actually do some real DD of your own meanwhile...while your predicating those both / either up or down movements may actually occur in the same post. After all, DD is what you first said you wanted to obtain in your 1st uWink Board IHub post back on 12/15/07. I suspect your predictive prowess may be slightly more focused if you bothered to bother...to do just that, while you continue to post your watching and waiting (IE: indicative of a no actual $$ position) predictions... – Not that I and others do not greatly appreciate being well informed that the stock PPS may very well go down or up, or up or down soon… or later…
BTW: Just a friendly tip to all uWink newbie’s and/or all those types with no real position (monetary and/or opinion) yet to be taken, while They are simultaneously requesting info / DD from others here (with an actual position taken and opinions stated clearly), while sequentially soon proclaiming (posting) that the documented facts provided Upon such a Request, and SEC document info links provided, and web links to uWink articles / news and/or related relative news and information provided… is somehow "pumping" the stock (which BTW is a ludicrous and absolutely absurd accusation that certain types playing here simply love to employ in their own IMO's).
Netman Note: I try to base my own trading decisions on my own DD, research, evaluation, constant re-evaluation, insight and observations. Current UWNK trading action is STILL reflecting short-term price action trading in the overall scheme of things (try to think longer intervals with stock reactions with perspective to the company results and company / products / franchise potential). I believe most of the true FMV of this diverse company has yet to be priced in.
Of course, everyone else has to do their own DD, and then draw and constantly evaluate their own conclusions and then place their own bets accordingly. All just IMO (not advice / none given), we all make (and live with) our own investment and/or trading choices. I Wish You All the best in your own investment and/or trading decisions, I've obviously made mine...
My Best Regards, Netman
Ahhhh...the Wolfgang Puck MOJO is out the box...
As Nolan said in an interview, H&H will cost less then 700K
(also said for Mountain View, for those that like good news)
H&H Cost of conversion is low, as the place is a premium takeover.
Just a wild hunch IMO (LOL!), look for more retrofits in future deals...
Yep, Wish she mentioned $$$ they are raking in
I WAS into TA 19-22 and 9-11 Years ago...
Way Back you paid companies like "Dial Data" 2 cents for each quote.
Anyone here remember the old Windows (3.11) on Wall Street Software?
TA indicators in this mass money - program trading market are N/A
IMO: With the sheer amount of money, emotions, and action in the market, the old TA written rules just do not apply. I have found 'trading by charts' not to be relative to current market trading.
In brief: Overall Perception will always become Reality very quickly in this global mass money momentum market. With the Sheer Amount of money, emotions (fear/greed/twits), big and small players, program trading, 401K's, mutual funds, and trader action now in the market, the old TA written rules just do not apply.
The different Various Opinions (of all the market players - am NOT just referring to the few posters here) all translate into various actions, which may translate into various market action, which makes the stock market the great grand chess game that it is. I enjoy That Market Game and respect all of the players here that actually have their own money in play, and not just their mouth.
A chart review of past events if you throw Enough TA at it can be viewed to make you conclude you should be able to anticipate direction, problem being that since you (nor I) do not really know everything (see: sum knowledge below) about the stock, nor what event may occur next to invalidate your colorful nice plot, you may as well be tossing chicken bones each morning prior to 9:30am.
Stock price action is redirected on a moment-by-moment basis on the current sum knowledge of All the market players and their actions, or their inaction, at any given moment in time. A chart analysis (of PAST EVENTS) is quite lovely to look at, fun to do, and is rendered obsolete the moment the market moves again in real time based on all the current reasons that are known NOW, that were not known just a moment prior (in real time), that the chart history (since chart trading is looking backwards to 'look' forward) does not include (simply because it IS based on history/trades of the Past Events). Charting or 'tossing the bones' analysis can be fun if you are not a chart-aholic.
Just because we as Traders/Investors will never know all that sum knowledge at each given moment a price action changes (We may not know, but that does not mean it does not exist to cause an action/reaction), some of us (not I) still like to chart the past events with TA indicators to try to foretell the near future. That's the problem with the future; it changes constantly based on the next set of current events/news/actions that have yet to occur...
Stock Charting / TA / Chicken Bones Analysis / Tea Leaves
IMO: My viewpoint above refers to my own perspective on trusting any stock chart past time frame, combined with one’s various selections of their preferred TA plotting.
Refreshing - Actual Discussion Occurred Today - B+
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