Day 152 - 11 Jul 95 - Page 74
1 Q. If you look at that schedule would you accept that as
2 correct?
3 A. It might have been one Friday or one Saturday turned
4 out as those sort of hours being allotted, yes. It
5 certainly was not, you know, that is not a replica of what
6 happened every week.
7
8 Q. Obviously, you said it is busier during the summer and
9 whatever, but during an average week would that be fairly
10 typical?
11 A. It may have been typical although, obviously, that is
12 only two days in the week.
13
14 Q. Yes, for a Friday and a Saturday, would that be fairly
15 typical?
16 A. Possibly, yes.
17
18 Q. Then after whichever Manager it is draws up a schedule such
19 as this, do they then draw up the schedule where they
20 actually write down which hours the individual crew are
21 going to work?
22 A. That is right, yes.
23
24 Q. This one is the one that is drawn first?
25 A. Yes. This is matrix 1. However, also incorporated in
26 that was a projection of sales we would expect to do on
27 each individual hour. So there was a left-hand column with
28 the sales and a right-hand column with the number of people
29 we would want on any specific hour.
30
31 Q. Right. That would be in order to work out the labour rate
32 as a percentage of the turnover?
33 A. Nothing to do with turnover.
34
35 Q. Sorry, the sales turnover, I mean, not turnover of
36 employees?
37 A. There is more to gauge, make sure that we had the right
38 amount of people on at the right time. So, if we had a
39 œ500 hour specifically projected, then we would want a
40 certain amount of people on for that œ500 hour.
41
42 Q. Was there a rate that you aimed at?
43 A. A rate for what, sorry?
44
45 Q. For the certain amount of people if you had 500 sales?
46 A. It was to need, so, for instance, if it was a œ500
47 hour, we would look to determine how many tills we needed
48 for that hour, whether we needed a second fry station, how
49 many people we would need in a grill team and then work it
50 out from that, and say: "For that œ500 hour you may need
51 three or four people in the dining area", and then you
52 would get a total and that would be the figure you put in
53 next to the projected hours.
54
55 Q. Do you see what Mr. Gidney has written underneath the
56 chart?
57 A. Yes, I see it.
58
59 Q. If you read down to: "This labour rate was the key"?
60 A. Yes.
