Dane Archery

Absolutely.

And so now we live in the South Island.

Most people here behave as though they've never been punched in the mouth.

And when they behave like that with you and you think,

You know what I mean?

You think, oh, when I was young, that would have... I think, ah, mum would be so proud.

Yeah.

I think cooking...

When I went overseas, I did a lot of private high-end stuff, and that's where I really saw the market.

And that's why our business does what it does now.

You know, like in places like Malaysia and Singapore and stuff, you can cook in private settings for the sort of numbers that you couldn't imagine when you were in a restaurant.

And the big thing about that and why our business is set up as it is now, as I learned there, the food's sold.

We're not sitting here with a bunch of food and our fingers crossed that thank goodness people come in.

and a big thing I learned out there was the reality is they're not better than us the media makes it look like these big cities and stuff like they're so much better than us they're not they're not like Auckland as a food city I reckon we might not have the volume of good places we might not have the volume of coffee that they do in Melbourne but our coffee's as good as a coffee in Melbourne our food's as good as the food in Singapore City we don't have the volume right but

some of our best chinese places they mix it man and the big thing i got was heaps of confidence when i was over there because like our produce is better the food we produce and i don't mean cook i mean the food we actually produce to be cooked is better than all of these and so our restaurants should be better than all of these and i think one of the big things we

don't know it's like a weird thing we have a kiwi kid like i won't use any names here but i worked with this kid at paducci right and he was half decent you know cutting by in his position doing enough to stay around and he moved to china and now he's like michelin starred wow it's probably obvious to people that know them crack now you say that but like now he's michelin starred and he's a big dog over there and there's posters of him on high-rise buildings

Oh, absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

I mean, he wasn't even the Johnny Wilkinson.

It's tough for Johnny Wilkinson that he had to exist when Dan Carter existed.