Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 64


     
     1        A.  Only that they all, sort of, went round in a group
     2        together and were very friendly.  Therefore, if one person
     3        catalysed them into coming forward, then that may be the
     4        reason.  But as to motive I am perplexed.
     5
     6   Q.   What about the accusation that when you ran out of diet
     7        cola you would habitually replace it with normal cola, thus
     8        endangering -- I think this is what it is supposed to mean
     9         -- thus endangering the health of diabetics in treating
    10        the customers who wanted to have less sugar in their diet?
    11        A.  That is totally wrong.  The only instance of anything
    12        even barely resembling that statement was somebody did
    13        actually put normal cola into a diet cola tank on one
    14        occasion.  As soon as we found out, we completely rinsed
    15        out the tank and flushed the lines through and replaced it
    16        with the correct diet cola.  We actually had cleaner sticks
    17        that we tested on a daily basis, test it for sugar, to
    18        ensure that this did not happen.
    19
    20   Q.   Then this, Mr. Davis, an accusation, I think made only by
    21        Mr. Kevin Harrison in a postscript to his statement, that
    22        it was normal practice to manipulate the till results or
    23        the receipts or the till themselves so as to disguise cash
    24        discrepancies or to increase the apparent profitability of
    25        the restaurant; have you ever done that?
    26        A.  No, I do not know exactly what he means.
    27
    28   Q.   No, I do not either, but we will have to wait for him to
    29        tell us about that.  Have you ever manipulated a till for
    30        any of those purposes?
    31        A.  No.
    32
    33   Q.   Have any of your assistants, to your knowledge, or upon
    34        your authority done such a thing?
    35        A.  No.
    36
    37   Q.   Have you ever come across anybody in the McDonald's
    38        organisation that has done such a thing?
    39        A.  Yes.
    40
    41   Q.   Naming no names, if you would not mind, what were the
    42        circumstances where that occurred and what happened to the
    43        person who did it?
    44        A.  The circumstances were that one instance I can recall
    45        the Manager was putting employee meals through a till
    46        which, instead of -- he was taking money for employee meals
    47        which meant that no sales were registered through the
    48        tills.  Consequently, these did not appear as net sales but
    49        appeared as a surplus cash amount, because when the
    50        employee meals were put through the till it came up as a 
    51        nought reading, and the Manager, we assumed, was pocketing 
    52        the money or was using it to his own ends.  That Manager 
    53        was, the one I am thinking of, dismissed for that fact.
    54
    55   Q.   There is one other thing that occurs to me, Mr. Davis.
    56        I am sorry to take you by surprise.  Have got yellow bundle
    57        ten still?
    58        A.  Yes.
    59
    60   Q.   If you could go back, please, to tab 7 in that file and

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