Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 13
1 Q. 900,000?
2 A. Per year.
3
4 Q. Per year, sorry, yes.
5 A. That might have been.
6
7 MS. STEEL: I think that was per store.
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Per restaurant and that worked out at 500
10 million meals per annum, so that if one divides that by
11 something like 350 for the year, that is a bit short of one
12 and a half million a day.
13 A. Yes, sir.
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15 Q. It is those sort of the figures you are talking about; is
16 it?
17 A. Yes.
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19 Q. So you divide your number of meals by approximately 2 and
20 you get your number of till transactions?
21 A. Well, that is ----
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23 Q. Or you do it the other way?
24 A. I go the other way round.
25
26 Q. You take your number of till transactions and multiply it
27 by 2 for your number of meals, but although you used the
28 word "meals" back in July of 94, that would include a
29 milkshake?
30 A. I might come in and have a full meal; the person with
31 me might only have a cup of coffee. That would count as
32 feeding two people and I really have no way of knowing who
33 got what.
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35 Q. The figures you gave us at the beginning of July 94, can we
36 bring them up in proportion to the number of restaurants
37 there are now to the number of restaurants there were then?
38 A. Since 94 until now, the average is the average
39 transactions per store. That 470,000 per year figure went
40 down a bit and more recently has come back a bit. It is in
41 the 470 to 480 region currently.
42
43 Q. Per restaurant?
44 A. 470 to 480,000 transactions per restaurant per year
45 times 2 would give us the number of people who had
46 something to eat or drink in that specific restaurant times
47 the number of restaurants would give us the total number of
48 people who had something to eat or drink in the McDonald's
49 system in the United Kingdom in the calendar year.
50
51 Q. Just pause a moment (Pause). Thank you. In case anyone
52 wants to check for the future the figures I extracted, it
53 was Day 3, page 8 of the transcript, according to my note.
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55 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I do observe that the word "meals" was my
56 fault, perhaps. It actually first came from me, at line
57 ----
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It has been explained. Mr. Preston has said
60 what he means by "meals", so it can be challenged or tested
