Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 56


     
     1   Q.   How long did that go on for?
     2        A.  Sorry, the hourly rate?
     3
     4   Q.   No, this thing of him undertaking the tasks of Second
     5        Assistant Managers?
     6        A.  OK, perhaps if I explain the sort of context of this?
     7        I think Simon at the time was a 17 year old Floor Manager
     8        and, as such -- the principal role of a Floor Manager was
     9        in the, sort of, co-ordinating and leading of areas within
    10        the store for that particular shift.
    11
    12        So, for example, if I was a salaried Manager running the
    13        shift, I could have Simon looking after the front counter
    14        and the tasks therein.  Some of the other tasks they were
    15        asked to do were on top of that, some of the more
    16        administrative sides of the business.  I think there was a
    17        Floor Manager doing the scheduling, there were Floor
    18        Managers carrying out some of the weekly and monthly work.
    19
    20   Q.   How many Floor Managers would there have been in the store?
    21        A.  I think there probably three at the time.
    22
    23   Q.   At that time they were all doing the work that normally a
    24        Second Assistant Manager would take on?
    25        A.  Yes, basically, there was a fairly experienced team of
    26        salaried managers.  So, in part of that idea of trying to
    27        spread some of the tuition and the work-load, so to speak,
    28        Simon was also doing tasks which you would probably
    29        primarily concern it with, in terms of the financial
    30        business side, the running of the operational side of the
    31        business, carrying out tasks which I would expect those to
    32        be the sort of food and drinks, so to speak, of the
    33        Assistant Manager.
    34
    35   Q.   How long was that situation going on for?
    36        A.  When I came down to the area in 86, I think Simon and
    37        some of the other Floor Managers were carrying out those
    38        various roles.  It was not to take the responsibility away,
    39        so to speak, but certainly in educating the other salaried
    40        managers and giving their salaried position some worth, so
    41        to speak, I just, I guess, advised Mark not to have all the
    42        role.  Because Simon and the Floor Managers were the most
    43        experienced hourly paid staff, if you like, who knew the
    44        restaurant, it would be easier, perhaps, to give them the
    45        job rather than teach the Assistant Managers so that First
    46        Assistants -- so, in a way Mark was going to plan his
    47        succession, so to speak, so that he could develop Second
    48        Assistants and First Assistants and develop someone to run
    49        the business with him rather than purely and solely through
    50        the Floor Managers. 
    51 
    52   Q.   At that time did he not have First and Second Assistant 
    53        Managers?
    54        A.  I think there was a First Assistant and, perhaps, a
    55        second, but in terms of, a bit like with the crew schedule,
    56        certainly the more managers would make the job easier, it
    57        would certainly make one manager responsible for training,
    58        one for payroll, and so on and so forth, would make life
    59        much easier, would help the training of the Floor Managers,
    60        so to speak.

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