Tortilla Mexican Grill plc

Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Tortilla Mexican Grill 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 can review all questions submitted today and we'll publish those responses where it is appropriate to do so before we begin as usual I would just like to submit the following poll and if you could give that your kind attention I'm sure the company would be most grateful and I would now like to hand you over to the executive management team from Tortilla Mexican Grill plc. Andy, good morning sir.

Good morning, thank you very much and welcome everyone to our investor presentation for the interims on a rather wet rainy day in September. We're really excited to talk to you about some of the progress we've been making. So we'll start with some introductions first. For those that don't know us, I'm Andy. I'm a CEO. I took over from Richard in March as CEO. I've been with the business for seven years. So I've eaten a lot of burritos in that time. And I welcomed Maria into the business back in February.

Thank you. And good morning, everyone. I'm Maria. As Andy said, I joined in February. So I've been here for about seven months now and really excited about the work we've done so far that we'll talk you through now and the future that lies ahead.