Day 197 - 07 Dec 95 - Page 71


     
       1 MR. RAMPTON:  It is eight days afterwards.  He was promoted on
       2      1st April.
       3
       4 MS. STEEL:  Yes, but the point is this says: "I am promoting
       5      you to First Assistant effectively immediately."
       6      A.  I was actually promoted at the end of this review if
       7      I remember correctly.
       8
       9 MR. RAMPTON:  Do not worry about it, Mr. Coton.  It does not
      10      matter to me in the very slightest whether you were
      11      already appointed or just about to.  It may be this
      12      performance review was dated later than it was made.  It
      13      really does not matter in the slightest.  My question is
      14      this: Are you really saying that that reference to milk
      15      shakes, "Do you know what constitutes a quality shake?"
      16      could credibly have been given by the very man who had
      17      instructed everybody to water them down?
      18      A.  It was.
      19
      20 Q.   So this is another case of, what?  This is just a front,
      21      is it?
      22      A.  A case of what, sorry?
      23
      24 Q.   This is just a front, is it?
      25      A.  Not so much a front.  We all knew what the quality
      26      was, what was expected.  As I said before, there are
      27      standards that they want and then the standards that
      28      actually happen.  You are judged on two things.
      29
      30 Q.   Let us just look, if we may, at some of the references to
      31      the quality of the shakes when you were Manager.  The
      32      first one is on page 35 which is your performance review
      33      by Mark Davies dated 11th May 1988.  Again I remind you
      34      that your evidence is that Mark Davies was in this
      35      business up to his neck, if I may make a bad joke about
      36      it.  Will you also accept from me, without our having to
      37      go through all the performance reviews, that there is in
      38      Mark Davies' performance reviews as Manager no reference
      39      to the quality of the milk shakes, and that this is the
      40      first reference, apart from the one I showed you by Frank
      41      Stanton, this is the first reference of any kind of milk
      42      shakes in any of your performance reviews as Manager?
      43
      44      Now look, please, at page 35 under "QSC".  There are a
      45      number of numbered items.  The sixth says "drinks low
      46      calibration".  Do you see that?
      47      A.  Yes.
      48
      49 Q.   If you calibrate the drinks too low they become watery, do
      50      they not?
      51      A.  They do.
      52 
      53 Q.   The cola tanks at Colchester were on the third floor, were
      54      they not?
      55      A.  Correct.
      56
      57 Q.   Or at least the third inhabitant?
      58      A.  Yes.
      59
      60 Q.   The second floor actually.  Ground and the first floor

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