Tortilla Mexican Grill plc

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Tortilla Mexican Grill plc half year results investor presentation. Throughout this recorded presentation investors will be in listen only mode. Questions are encouraged they can be submitted at any time via the Q&A tab that's just situated on the right hand corner of your screen. Please just simply type in your questions 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 and these be available via your investor meet company dashboard before we begin I would like to submit the following poll and I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from Tortilla Mexican Grill Richard, Andy, good afternoon hi good afternoon Jake good afternoon everyone good afternoon

Okay, thanks for joining us. We'll take you through our presentation. We think probably half an hour, 40 minutes, something like that. First of all, a quick intro to ourselves. My name is Richard Morris. I'm led to believe a hospitality veteran. I've been in this sector all my working life, actually, from flipping burgers at McDonald's as a kid through TGI Fridays, Lock Fine restaurants, and then I joined Tortillas. just about 10 years ago actually or nearly 10 years ago so it's been an interesting career and a very exciting last 10 years with this business.

Hi everyone I'm Andy I'm the CFO at Altura. I've been here about six years having worked in another restaurant business Gaucho before. I started my career in oil and gas yeah moved into a more of a commercial role in recent years and yeah we have a great management team here.