Day 153 - 12 Jul 95 - Page 41
1 Q. You have read his statement?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 Q. In which, presumably you would agree, he complains about
5 quite a lot?
6 A. Yes, he does, yes.
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8 Q. Did you get many complaints; can you recall many complaints
9 from staff at Colchester?
10 A. I cannot recall many. We may have had the odd
11 complaint but, generally, people were particularly happy,
12 as I remember it.
13
14 Q. At paragraph 38, you recall that on one occasion the air
15 conditioning unit was broken for approximately one to two
16 days?
17 A. Yes.
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19 Q. There were complaints about this, were there not, from the
20 crew?
21 A. There may have been some crew complained that it was
22 cold, yes; and the people on the till I let wear jumpers,
23 and the people in the grill area, there was not a problem
24 because the heat off the grills and the fries and the
25 toasters would have kept that at a reasonably conducive
26 temperature.
27
28 Q. What was the temperature it reached, the lowest temperature
29 you can remember it reached during that period in the
30 store?
31 A. I have no idea.
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33 Q. If Mr. Siamak was to say later on in evidence that six
34 degrees was recorded, would that refresh your memory, or
35 would that -----
36 A. It certainly would not refresh my memory, and I would
37 struggle to realise how he would have known it was that
38 temperature. There was no heat monitoring equipment in;
39 there was no thermometers in the kitchen.
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41 Q. But it went down quite low?
42 A. It was quite cold, yes.
43
44 Q. So in the kitchen area the grills maintained the
45 temperature to a kind of reasonable working temperature,
46 did they?
47 A. Yes, I felt so, given that the grills at the time were,
48 I believe, about 375 degrees Fahrenheit and four foot by
49 five foot in the kitchen; they gave off quite a large
50 amount of heat.
51
52 Q. Were there quite a large number of the staff in the
53 vicinity of the grills?
54 A. Half the staff would be in the grill area or, you know,
55 in the kitchen area, and half would be in the till area or
56 in the lobby.
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58 Q. So it would be fair to say that if the temperature was not
59 cold in the store on normal days, when the temperature was
60 working normally, the grill area would be substantially
