Day 161 - 24 Jul 95 - Page 22


     
     1        not concern yourself about it.  That is not your
     2        responsibility, anyway.
     3
     4   MISS STEEL:  Right.
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.   Open court again, please.  Thank you
     7        for letting me know.
     8
     9               (The proceedings continued in open court)
    10
    11   MISS STEEL:  Did you ask to take on that particular store, or
    12        was that selected for you?
    13        A.  It is a choice.
    14
    15   Q.   It was your choice?
    16        A.  Yes.
    17
    18   Q.   Were you allowed to choose from all the stores in the
    19        country, or was there a selected number that you could
    20        choose from which the Company was interested in franchisees
    21        taking over?
    22        A.  The store close to where I live.  There was a choice of
    23        three to four restaurants.
    24
    25   Q.   So you could not have chosen any restaurant; there was a
    26        list that the Company provided of stores that they were
    27        interested in being taken over by franchisees?
    28        A.  There was not given to me a list.  There was in the
    29        area, I picked that restaurant, and my second choice would
    30        have been another restaurant if that was refused.
    31
    32   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I just understand the situation?  You
    33        were, presumably, one of a number of people who were
    34        interested in becoming franchisees, and McDonald's had
    35        reached the stage where they were prepared to consider you
    36        as a franchisee?
    37        A.  Yes, my Lord.
    38
    39   Q.   Was it then left to you to say: "If I become a franchisee,
    40        I would be interested in such and such a store", or did
    41        they give you a list of stores which they were prepared to
    42        contemplate going franchised?
    43        A.  I mentioned names on my interview for franchising.
    44        I mentioned the stores then where I am interested.
    45
    46   Q.   I see.
    47        A.  So from there, and I was given this restaurant.
    48
    49   MISS STEEL:  Going back to the Strand store, you said that that
    50        was a particularly busy store, the busiest store in the 
    51        world.  Was it just in 1987 that it was the busiest store 
    52        in the world? 
    53        A.  The two years I have been there, 1987 and 1988 only.
    54
    55   Q.   But had it been the busiest store in the world before you
    56        arrived?
    57        A.  No, it was not.
    58
    59   Q.   It had not?
    60        A.  No.

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