Day 204 - 15 Jan 96 - Page 52
1 A. Certainly, yes.
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3 Q. Can you give me a rough idea -- take a man of average
4 intelligence with some considerable experience of
5 McDonald's, how long, roughly speaking, does it take him to
6 sort of master the job of being a Manager, I mean a Store
7 Manager?
8 A. It would probably take -- I mean, it depends a lot on
9 the individual, but on a -- probably six months.
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11 Q. Can you turn, then, to page 3 where I would like your
12 help. You were only asked about a little bit of this
13 paragraph. The second paragraph on that page, "You must
14 become more attune to all the various accounts and exactly
15 what has been spent. Do not rely on Andrew to pull you
16 through. Control of the food account could be better.
17 Find out where problems occur", and I think that is where
18 Mr. Morris or Ms. Steel, whoever it was, stopped. Then you
19 go on, "Make sure monthly work variance analysis and
20 statistical reports are used beneficially". Is there a
21 difference between variance analysis and statistical
22 reports? Are they different things?
23 A. I think the variance analysis was a part of the overall
24 statistical report.
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26 Q. Yes. That is an analysis or a report on what you have been
27 spending, is it?
28 A. No, I think the variance analysis was used to take the
29 individual items, work out how much it should have been
30 used on a particular item and then work out if there was
31 any deviance from that. So if it said you should have used
32 450 filet portions, for example, and you had actually used
33 460, having knocked off your waste and your employee meals
34 et cetera, then the variance analysis sort of highlighted
35 any areas where things had gone missing or were not
36 recorded correctly.
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38 Q. I see. Then you write, "They are not just a paperwork
39 exercise. Waste counts." I hope I have understood this:
40 Are you saying waste does count or is waste counts a
41 particular kind of thing?
42 A. Waste counts is when you count the waste and then
43 record it.
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45 Q. It is a noun and not a verb, they are waste counts?
46 A. Noun, yes.
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48 Q. "Employee consumption and production control. Ordering is
49 not always on target. Operating supplies have been
50 haphazardly controlled". Is there a difference between
51 ordering and operating supplies, or is operating supplies
52 what you get when you do your ordering?
53 A. Operating supplies is what you get when you do your
54 ordering.
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56 MR. RAMPTON: Yes. Thank you very much.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Thank you, Mr. Davis. Leave everything there
59 and sit down.
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