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.
     7
     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.
    18
    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.
    32
    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.
    40
    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.
    57
    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

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