Day 134 - 13 Jun 95 - Page 73
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2 Q. They would have assistants just as an ordinary Restaurant
3 Manager?
4 A. Yes.
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6 Q. Are they particularly large restaurants?
7 A. They are sometimes. The new general manager programme,
8 broadly speaking the definition I used I tried to use one
9 that covered both types of the general management scheme
10 and we are just moving towards having more general
11 managers. It is a pilot scheme we are having at the
12 moment. So many of them do have the larger restaurants.
13 They would have assistants. There are other new levels
14 that will come about which will be things like assistant
15 general manager who would be someone who would have the
16 same status as the current Restaurant Manager. It is a
17 sort of whole new area.
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19 MS. STEEL: Really I just wondered why it was there are only 12
20 of them whereas there are 430 store managers?
21 A. Because what it was that we started out with a version
22 of the general management programme which was a pilot. Now
23 we have a further slightly different one that is being
24 operated, so it was a kind of trial programme.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If I may say so, it is this printout which
27 appeared to me, unless the time is as bizarrely set out as
28 the date, was in the middle of the night in the top
29 right-hand corner which is only of interest in so far as a
30 lot of these documents may be pumped out during the
31 computer's otherwise idle time.
32 A. Yes, I do not know.
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34 MS. STEEL: I am only going to ask one question on this because
35 I basically think this is a bit of a red herring by the
36 Plaintiffs anyway since it is not what the leaflet says.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Say that if you wish in due course.
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40 MS. STEEL: But if we turn to page 624D do we note that there
41 are no black or other ethnic minority people on the
42 executive?
43 A. Yes.
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45 Q. There is only one on the following page. There is only one
46 woman executive?
47 A. Yes, that is correct.
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49 Q. There is just one other question. A large proportion of
50 the company stores are in London, are they not?
51 A. Yes.
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53 Q. Do you know what percentage it is?
54 A. No, I am sure the figures are somewhere but maybe 60
55 per cent. I am not sure.
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57 Q. I do not know it is that high. I do not know. I think
58 there is at least 150 in London.
59 A. Yes, it is more than that.
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