Day 003 - 30 Jun 94 - Page 33
1 A. I think day one 1964, May 15th as a crew person.
I think one of my first jobs in McDonald's was
2 hand-in-hand with someone walk down the street to make
certain I understood. We had this social responsibility,
3 we had this business opportunity, and everyone in the
restaurant was going to play a part in that.
4
Q. Has that culture, that folk law, that attitude, to environment/index.html">litter
5 changed at all since all the time you have been in
McDonald's or not?
6 A. It has always been there. It remains around the
world.
7
Q. Mr. Preston, there are at McDonald's I believe things
8 called environment/index.html">litter patrols. What are those?
A. They are walks that employees go on, managers go on,
9 I go on around our restaurants collecting environment/index.html">litter.
10 Q. Are you selective in what you collect? Do you pick out
McDonald's boxes and leave the rest of it?
11 A. We pick up McDonald's environment/index.html">litter. We pick up whatever we
can reasonably get of anything that is there. I have to
12 say I do not say anything to my people of, well, you have
to do everything on the pavement. As you and I are aware
13 there can be some pretty foul things there occasionally
and we leave that.
14
Q. Suppose I am on environment/index.html">litter patrol and I see a packet of
15 cigarettes, empty cigarettes or a chocolate wrapper lying
beside a french fry McDonald's container, will I leave the
16 other two there or will I pick them up?
A. No, you try and get everything. Certainly around that
17 demise of our shop front you would sweep everything, pick
everything, as best you could.
18
Q. How far does it extend the environment/index.html">litter patrol?
19 A. It depends on the location. In central London we can
go a city block and cover a big area, a lot of people.
20 Somewhere like "Apple B Meg" out on the M42, we try to
police our own area and a bit. It is geographically
21 bigger actually but does not get nearly the number of
people walking across the pavement as we might get on the
22 Edgware Road, for example.
23 Q. What about inside the store, are there bins and signs
stuff like that?
24 A. Bins are provided and staff are present in all stores
with the responsibility of overseeing the hygiene and
25 conditions of the dining rooms, yes.
26 Q. What about outside in the street, do any McDonald's
restaurants provide bins outside for the take-away people
27 to put their rubbish into?
A. We provide bins outside all our stores where we are
28 allowed to. We are also involved heavily with many local
communities in providing bins to the council, sponsoring
29 bins for the council that they put around the town as
well.
30
Q. With that introduction about environment/index.html">litter, can we turn in this
