Day 209 - 25 Jan 96 - Page 26


     
     1        went off.  So that would be obvious.  That only ever
     2        happened in the morning when you came in.  You would try
     3        and turn the chicken stuff on, and you would find out it
     4        had tripped the night before, and you would have to go
     5        upstairs to the roof and redo the switch.
     6
     7        But that was obvious.  This trouble with the chicken vat,
     8        that was the problem with it, it was not obvious.
     9
    10   Q.   The problem about the lighting of the gas?
    11        A.  Yes.  Well, yes, it would be -- the gas ignition was
    12        the problem on this one vat.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When did the ignition trouble occur?
    15        A.  Normally when it was getting busier and busier; you
    16        know, when you are starting to get -- you are having to put
    17        chicken down -----
    18
    19   Q.   It was re-igniting, really ---
    20        A.  Yes, that is what it always done.
    21
    22   Q.   -- to keep the temperature -----
    23        A.  Exactly -- to keep recovering the temperature, and it
    24        would not ignite, and then the temperature would start to
    25        go down.
    26
    27        I got to the stage where I was managing -- when Dave Wynne
    28        was the Store Manager, I managed the kitchen virtually
    29        every Saturday he was there; and, after a few weeks,
    30        I actually used to go and check it myself before it started
    31        to get busy, to make sure everything was all right.  But
    32        during the middle of lunchtime, when I am looking after the
    33        grill teams or the quarterpounders and keeping it all
    34        together, it would go and I would not notice it for a few
    35        moments.  Once I only noticed it because a complaint came
    36        back to me.
    37
    38   MR. MORRIS:  Continuing to read: "The vats were continually
    39        being repaired by service engineers, approximately once
    40        every month or two.  The vats tripped out as often as two
    41        or three times a week."  We are talking about the chicken
    42        vats, are we?
    43        A.  Yes.  I would say vats is the wrong -- because it was
    44        one particular -- the other vat used to do it as well, but
    45        it was the first vat as you went into fillet and pie which
    46        was the one that was used most; it was the one that was
    47        used for chicken nuggets and chicken patties on normal
    48        days, and on a Saturday it was just used, I think, for
    49        chicken nuggets.
    50 
    51   Q.   Can I ask, do you know who the service engineers were? 
    52        A.  It was 1st in Service who we used to call out. 
    53
    54   Q.   1st in -----?
    55        A.  1st in Service.  They are in Birmingham.
    56
    57   Q.   Right.
    58        A.  It is a "1" and "st", in Service.  That is the logo,
    59        I think.
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