Day 166 - 28 Sep 95 - Page 35
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2 Q. Yes, but this is the evidence before us, that if we look at
3 the second document what it was running at in every case on
4 that second document, if you look through it, was higher
5 than what you ran it at, is it not?
6 A. Are you referring to the budget?
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8 Q. No. If we just look at the second document, the Profit and
9 Loss statement?
10 A. Yes.
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12 Q. The payroll crew percentages -- sorry, when did you arrive
13 at the store?
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15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: About February 1986.
16 A. Yes.
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18 MR. MORRIS: That is not strictly true but -----
19 A. These only related to the period of time that the lad
20 worked for me.
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22 Q. Sorry, I must have a look at this. Part of the problem is,
23 obviously, we did not get the document until today. If we
24 look at the year to date figures on the right-hand side ---
25 A. Yes.
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27 Q. -- every figure which you have achieved, 15.61, for
28 example, as opposed to 16.38 on the front page, yes?
29 A. Yes. That was against last year, yes.
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31 Q. If we go through the right-hand figures on the page all the
32 way through down, you have achieved a smaller labour
33 percentage for each year?
34 A. Each month.
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36 Q. Each month but, I mean, for the year to each month?
37 A. Yes.
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39 Q. You were doing well, yes?
40 A. I was learning from -- yes, learning.
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42 Q. Yes. So the figures that were set as budget figures were
43 to improve and bring down the labour percentage at your
44 store into the 15 per cent point something, below what they
45 had previously been?
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You done that by spending more on labour but
48 selling more food?
49 A. That is right. Obviously, with the experience and if
50 you have a Manager that is going to be there another year,
51 and so it might be a lower figure expected, due to the
52 better -- due to the fact that I would have been learning;
53 I would have brought my experience into the historics of it
54 and used the historics of it, to get better productivity
55 and better overall profitability in the end.
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57 MR. MORRIS: Do you happen to know what the inflation rate was
58 roughly around that time?
59 A. No idea.
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