Day 064 - 08 Dec 94 - Page 53
1 A. Absolutely not. I think if we did we would give them
2 the totally wrong impression, because the product, rather
3 like the answer I gave you this morning on McLean Delux
4 would not taste very good. That would put customers off if
5 anything.
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7 Q. That is not quite what I was asking. I was asking whether
8 you wanted people to think reading that that there was not
9 much fat in your products that had hamburgers in them?
10 A. No, that is not the intention at all. We are making
11 the point we do not add anything to the beef.
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13 Q. The new menu items that you have got listed there, you have
14 said salads are only available in, what was it, 69
15 restaurants or something?
16 A. 131.
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18 Q. How many was it for the pizza then?
19 A. Pizzas, around 60.
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21 Q. It was that way round, was it?
22 A. Yes.
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24 Q. How long have the other products been available?
25 A. Diet Coke was mid-80s; orange juice would have been
26 early 80s; yoghurt was in the last two or three years;
27 mineral water is more like four or five years.
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29 Q. If orange juice has been available since the early 80s, why
30 does it say "New menu items are added with healthy eating
31 in mind, recent examples include orange juice"?
32 A. Very simply because orange juice was not on the
33 original menu.
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35 Q. So "recent" means within the last 10 years or slightly more
36 than the last 10 years, I think?
37 A. In the context of things, yes.
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39 Q. Going over to the third page: "To help all our customers
40 eat healthily, we are constantly making our menu even more
41 nutritious." Is the implication of that that your menu was
42 nutritious in the first place?
43 A. It certainly contains all the nutrients you need on a
44 daily diet.
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46 Q. All of them?
47 A. Well, I am not aware of any that it does not contain.
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49 Q. In the amounts that you need?
50 A. Not in the amounts that you need; we are not claiming
51 that. You have to balance the diet to get the correct
52 amount of nutrients.
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54 Q. What do you mean by "nutritious"?
55 A. Foods that contain nutrients.
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57 Q. That is what it means?
58 A. Yes.
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60 Q. What do you understand by "helping the customers eat
