Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 13


     
     1   Q.   900,000?
     2        A.  Per year.
     3
     4   Q.   Per year, sorry, yes.
     5        A.  That might have been.
     6
     7   MS. STEEL: I think that was per store.
     8
     9   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Per restaurant and that worked out at 500
    10        million meals per annum, so that if one divides that by
    11        something like 350 for the year, that is a bit short of one
    12        and a half million a day.
    13        A.  Yes, sir.
    14
    15   Q.   It is those sort of the figures you are talking about; is
    16        it?
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   So you divide your number of meals by approximately 2 and
    20        you get your number of till transactions?
    21        A.  Well, that is ----
    22
    23   Q.   Or you do it the other way?
    24        A.  I go the other way round.
    25
    26   Q.   You take your number of till transactions and multiply it
    27        by 2 for your number of meals, but although you used the
    28        word "meals" back in July of 94, that would include a
    29        milkshake?
    30        A.  I might come in and have a full meal; the person with
    31        me might only have a cup of coffee.  That would count as
    32        feeding two people and I really have no way of knowing who
    33        got what.
    34
    35   Q.   The figures you gave us at the beginning of July 94, can we
    36        bring them up in proportion to the number of restaurants
    37        there are now to the number of restaurants there were then?
    38        A.  Since 94 until now, the average is the average
    39        transactions per store.  That 470,000 per year figure went
    40        down a bit and more recently has come back a bit.  It is in
    41        the 470 to 480 region currently.
    42
    43   Q.   Per restaurant?
    44        A.  470 to 480,000 transactions per restaurant per year
    45        times 2 would give us the number of people who had
    46        something to eat or drink in that specific restaurant times
    47        the number of restaurants would give us the total number of
    48        people who had something to eat or drink in the McDonald's
    49        system in the United Kingdom in the calendar year.
    50 
    51   Q.   Just pause a moment (Pause).  Thank you.  In case anyone 
    52        wants to check for the future the figures I extracted, it 
    53        was Day 3, page 8 of the transcript, according to my note.
    54
    55   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do observe that the word "meals" was my
    56        fault, perhaps.  It actually first came from me, at line
    57         ----
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It has been explained.  Mr. Preston has said
    60        what he means by "meals", so it can be challenged or tested

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