Day 202 - 11 Jan 96 - Page 33


     
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     2   Q.   So let us assume it is for 1991?
     3        A.  Yes.
     4
     5   Q.   You achieved a consolidated supervisors' profit after
     6        controls, PAC, of 34.07?
     7        A.  Yes.
     8
     9   Q.   Per cent, that is.  When you say percentage, that is pence
    10        and pounds, is it?
    11        A.  Per cent of top line sales, yes.
    12
    13   Q.   Per cent of top line sales?
    14        A.  Yes.
    15
    16   Q.   Which was 0.20 per cent up but still 0.39 per cent behind
    17        budget?
    18        A.  Yes.
    19
    20   Q.   So the budget was higher from what was achieved the
    21        previous year?
    22        A.  That is right, yes.
    23
    24   Q.   Or the target was higher, the target budget was higher.
    25        Then you go on to say, "was obtainable despite a shortfall
    26        in sales"?
    27        A.  Yes.
    28
    29   Q.   "Versus plan".  There we see, just very briefly, that
    30        Clacton 194 had failed to achieve its budget by a greater
    31        percentage than High Street Colchester, yes?
    32        A.  That is right, yes.
    33
    34   Q.   Yes, Ipswich had the highest profit after controlables?
    35        A.  It also had by far the highest sales, yes.
    36
    37   Q.   And the highest sales.  The conclusion of this whole
    38        section -- sorry, I am just trying to grasp what the
    39        important points are ---
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Well -----
    42
    43   MR. MORRIS:  -- to put.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not think the points of detail
    46        necessarily help me.  Your case, as I understand it, is
    47        that McDonald's ethos is so keen on profit and the various
    48        margins and targets of their clients that other
    49        considerations go to the wall, and one of the
    50        considerations which goes to the wall, you argue, is the 
    51        interests of the crew and that is what we are on, the whole 
    52        of this evidence which we have been hearing since April of 
    53        last year.
    54
    55   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    56
    57   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is what you want to concentrate on.  One
    58        of the ways in which you said it has gone to the wall is
    59        this docking of pay, which is why Mr. Atherton has been
    60        recalled and why we are hearing Plaintiffs' witnesses for

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