Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 77
1 Q. So that includes Floor Managers?
2 A. Yes.
3
4 Q. And is it crew trainers?
5 A. Yes. Anyone who is hourly paid, basically, which does
6 include those people.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Comparing that to Colchester, would the situation
9 be roughly the same?
10 A. In respect of numbers?
11
12 Q. Yes.
13 A. No. I think Colchester was quieter than Leicester.
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15 Q. Can you remember how many people were on the books at
16 Colchester?
17 A. 55.
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19 Q. It is quite dramatically less than Leicester then?
20 A. Sure.
21
22 Q. How does Colchester -- how is that categorised in terms of
23 volume as far as McDonald's is concerned? Is that a busy,
24 quiet, medium?
25 A. I think it is not a quiet one and it is not a busy one,
26 if that is not too much of a poor answer.
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28 Q. Medium?
29 A. Yes.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Looking at the figures we have, if, in fact,
32 there are about the average crew per restaurant at the
33 moment anyway (and this is pure average) is about 65, but
34 if you have a number of restaurants which are around the
35 100 mark, then it sounds as if the average, perfectly
36 typical, not quiet, but not a big, busy restaurant probably
37 is about the Colchester ---
38 A. That is exactly -----
39
40 Q. -- rate, with about 55 people on its payroll?
41 A. Yes, absolutely.
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43 Q. The big busy ones bring the average up to 60 or 65 across
44 the country. Does that sound reasonable?
45 A. Yes, it does.
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47 MR. MORRIS: So, not in terms of strict numbers, but in terms of
48 when you talked about scheduling, obviously we do not want
49 to go through all that again, but the percentage will be
50 roughly the same that would be scheduled at those various
51 times of the day, roughly would apply to Colchester but
52 scaled down?
53 A. Yes. Certainly the idea would be to build up to lunch
54 time, see a small decrease and build up and so on and so
55 forth. Those patterns are fairly regular throughout most
56 restaurants.
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58 Q. So that is a fairly good picture you have provided and that
59 would be based on a store with 100 on a payroll, whereas if
60 you did the same kind of exercise for a store that had 55
