Day 169 - 04 Oct 95 - Page 14


     
     1        the store.  He would go through, for instance, a break down
     2        of our maintenance and repair costs for each month and ask
     3        us why these costs are occurring.  If there is any
     4        recurring problem, for instance, we had a recurring problem
     5        with the shake machine, we may end up with a new machine,
     6        and the same occurred with the grease troughs.
     7
     8   Q.   But it would take some time before that happened?
     9        A.  A couple of months, yes, I should imagine.
    10
    11   Q.   This was a problem for over a year.
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am going to stop you now and put it myself,
    14        because we can only have so much cat and mouse and there is
    15        a quite clear allegation in Mr. Logan's statement.
    16        Mr. Logan says that the grease trap between two grills was
    17        broken for approximately three months up until him leaving
    18        McDonald's resulting in grease dripping under the grills.
    19        Do you remember any grease trap being broken for about
    20        three months?
    21        A.  No, I do not remember any grease trough being broken
    22        for that length of time.
    23
    24   Q.   He says that he asked a Manager when the trough would be
    25        repaired and was told that it would have to wait until it
    26        could be afforded.  Were you ever asked that by him?
    27        A.  No, I was not.
    28
    29   Q.   Do you have any knowledge of any question and answer like
    30        that?
    31        A.  No, I do not.  I find it ludicrous that he should come
    32        up with such an answer.  We have a maintenance repair man
    33        who works five days a week; it is very difficult to believe
    34        that he did not have the time or the money was not
    35        available to repair a grease trough which would have taken
    36        minutes, if anything.
    37
    38   Q.   He says that having it repaired would have affected profit
    39        and loss for the month?
    40        A.  Again that is ridiculous.  It is a very cheap repair
    41        and if we needed to buy a new one, we could buy a new one.
    42        And again, I mean, we were paying an M&R man for five days
    43        a week; the idea that we were paying him not to repair
    44        things is just stupid.
    45
    46   Q.   Do you have any idea of how much it would cost?
    47        A.  I should imagine it would involve him, like he normally
    48        did, just doing a bit of spot welding.  As Jagon has all
    49        the relevant equipment, it would be a question of how much
    50        it cost us to pay him in time to do it, which would 
    51        probably be about half an hour, I should imagine. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Yes.
    54
    55   MS. STEEL:   So, you are saying it was basically patched up and
    56        then after two months eventually some Supervisor said:
    57         "Why do you keep having this repaired?  You should get a
    58        new one"?
    59        A.  No.  What I am saying is it was repaired, it was not
    60        patched up.  If there was problem with it, it was repaired

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