Telkonet Inc (fka TKO)

[lakingsphan0427]

OT-

I agreed with Chaos..Screw TKO..this stock is dead..It pisses me off so bad that its making me post this OT stuff..

My DPDW has been on fire for a month too..It just hit the golden cross today..If the filing comes out on time it might hit .80s or better..Love this stock with solid fundamentals..

I also picked up UWNK last month..I visited their only restaurant at Woodland Hills CA and I was impressed that I already bought in a couple of times..For those of you who doesn't know what UWink is it is like a Chuck E Cheese for grown ups..Never had a dull moment while I was there..WOW..Talk about state-of-art restaurant..The best restaurant I had ever been..Lotsa entertainment while you wait for your foods...The ceo of UWNK is Nolan Bushnell who is the founder of Chuck E Cheese and Atari games..

http://www.uwink.com/franchise.htm

http://www.uwink.com/videos/cnbc.wmv

1) The first restaurant is currently open and attracting brisk business (waits of up to 1.5 hours some nights have been reported).

(2) More restaurants (mostly franchises) to open by Xmas 2007. Very futuristic and unique concept. They have been "inundated" with requests from potential franchisees. Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC) completed in December... http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/061204/20061204005618.html?.v=1 They are now able to offer franchises in 36 different U.S. states and territories... http://www.uwink.com/franchise.htm Franchise model = a lot of short term profits via franchise fees while passing on the risk to the franchise holders. Chuck E. Cheese was built to 200+ restaurants within 5 years while Nolan was CEO.
From the 10QSB: "Our longer term growth strategy is to open additional company-owned and/or company-managed restaurants in new markets and to franchise our concept, focusing on MULTIPLE-UNIT area development agreements with experienced operators. We are targeting a mix of one-third company-owned restaurants and two-thirds franchised restaurants. We expect we will also seek to generate additional revenue through the sale of media equipment to franchisees."

(3) CEO's policy, as seen with Atari and Chuck E. Cheese is immediate and massive growth. A quote of his from answers.com: "The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer."
http://www.answers.com/topic/nolan-bushnell

(4) Similar but very different from Dave & Busters - all games come free with food and drink and are at the table and bar. Food and drink can be ordered directly from the terminals for fast and accurate service. Whole new style of games that allow for a social atmosphere (with games between tables and projectors to flash giant screens on the wall to simulate master games) instead of the anti-social gaming that is more D&Bs with each participant playing more by himself. See the link for the fascinating details... http://www.uwink.com/documents/Book%20of%20Bistro.pdf There's also a lot more than games at the terminals - movie trailers, magic tricks, fortunes, horoscopes, comedy skits, music videos, and the old-fashioned carnival stuff that tests your whatever by putting your hand on the screen.

(5) Food-wise, the menu was created by one of the pioneers of California Pizza Kitchen and he was directly responsible for making it the huge success it is. (John Kaufman, former Vice President of Operations at California Pizza Kitchen, who helped it grow from its very first restaurant to a chain of 68 restaurants and 3,000 employees) http://www.freshnews.com/cgi-bin/jsj_news/print.cgi?article_ID=25707
He took 50% of his compensation in uWink stock... http://blog.uwink.com/2006/06/06/uwink%e2%80%99s-cto-cfo-others-invest-in-uwink/

(6) Use of touchscreens enables cost savings and opens the door to a wide range of additional revenue opportunities. They "need to staff only 1 runner per 20 tables as opposed to 1 waiter per 4-5 tables in other restaurants"... http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=17162936 Orders entered on the touchscreens at each table are transmitted directly to the kitchen which improves efficiency and eliminates errors.
Computer-based ordering also makes possible the real-time monitoring of consumption trends, the display of relevant advertising (deals with Red Bull, Evian and Stockholm Vodka have already been announced... http://www.adotas.com/2006/09/uwink-launches-marketing-partnership-program-with-evian-stockholm-vodk.... ), and personalized recommendations (a la Amazon.com) based on analysis of their order history.
Furthermore, uWink is planning a wine-tasting challenge. Staff bring wines out to a table and patrons input their preferences through their touchscreen... http://www.uwink.com/beta/wine/ At the end of the activity they could be presented with the option of having bottles of them charged to their bill and mailed to their home address. Other ideas to which Bushnell has alluded include option of taking a survey on the touchscreen in exchange for a free dessert. uWink could then sell the results to a marketing research firm.

(7) Company has no long term debt.

(8) Analyst Eric Wold of Merriman Curhan Ford Co. says that the trick is to distinguish yourself from the other chains serving up predictable dining fare. Bushnell "will bring something to consumers they can't get anywhere else," Wold says. He adds that "the tabletop terminals can be remotely managed — unlike arcade games that break down — and that video meal-ordering will allow the company to save on labor costs for servers."

(9) Two Atari employees who previously worked for Nolan -- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, the founders of Apple Computer, Inc.

(10) In short, this is Chuck E. Cheese meets TGIFriday's of the future, IMO.