Day 150 - 07 Jul 95 - Page 39
1 part of the visits that the Senior Supervisor would make
2 would also encompass, probably not in as much detail but
3 certainly in terms of visiting the restaurant, to look at
4 some of that paper work and administrative side of the
5 business. So they would also be looking at it, but they
6 perhaps would not go into individual files as I would do,
7 being the Supervisor. They would look at an overall
8 picture of, for example, the payroll, the quality of the
9 work done on it and so on and so forth.
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11 Q. Just on a slightly different subject but it is related:
12 Were there any arrangements at Colchester for transport
13 late at night for people under 18, or whatever?
14 A. A taxi service.
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16 Q. To get home?
17 A. Yes. We had a taxi. We use a taxi firm who would be
18 used, basically, to take people home who had just finished
19 the close.
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21 Q. Obviously, the taxi has to be paid. Was there some
22 specific area of the budget that that came from?
23 A. Generally that would be paid out of petty cash.
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25 Q. Petty cash?
26 A. So one of my responsibilities, probably I think it was
27 on a monthly basis, would be to -- the Store Manager would
28 prepare the petty cash claim form, but then I would have to
29 check it to make sure that invoices and everything else all
30 added -- they were sort of VAT registered and so on and so
31 forth -- before I signed them and approved them for moneys
32 to be taken out to compensate the petty cash fund.
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34 Q. I know that Barlows, for example, have a taxi account that
35 is used a fair amount of the time. Is something that
36 McDonald's would have? Would they have an account?
37 A. I think now we have accounts so that we can handle it
38 centrally. But, when I was a Supervisor in Colchester, we
39 paid it out of petty cash. The taxi firm would, I think,
40 submit an invoice to us on a weekly basis.
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42 Q. Were you ever worried about the cost of paying the taxi?
43 A. No, not so much the cost, but the system we had was
44 that we would try and ensure that the people on the close
45 lived roughly in the same part of town so that the taxi
46 could, basically, make one trip or, no, I would not need
47 two taxis going on different sides of the town; they could
48 do it on a one run route.
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50 Q. Did you have any practical way of keeping an eye on what
51 was going on with the taxis?
52 A. Again, because I would have to scrutinize the petty
53 cash claim and ultimately approve it, then I would soon
54 know if we were having too many taxis. But I was looking
55 for at least one taxi a night; that is the sort of
56 minimum. I can understand that times of scheduling would
57 be such that they may require two and, perhaps, even three
58 taxis, but the idea was to try and make efficient use of
59 it.
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