Day 003 - 30 Jun 94 - Page 33


     
     1        A.  I think day one 1964, May 15th as a crew person.
              I think one of my first jobs in McDonald's was
     2        hand-in-hand with someone walk down the street to make
              certain I understood.  We had this social responsibility,
     3        we had this business opportunity, and everyone in the
              restaurant was going to play a part in that.
     4
         Q.   Has that culture, that folk law, that attitude, to environment/index.html">litter
     5        changed at all since all the time you have been in
              McDonald's or not?
     6        A.  It has always been there.  It remains around the
              world.
     7
         Q.   Mr. Preston, there are at McDonald's I believe things
     8        called environment/index.html">litter patrols.  What are those?
              A.  They are walks that employees go on, managers go on,
     9        I go on around our restaurants collecting environment/index.html">litter.
 
    10   Q.   Are you selective in what you collect?  Do you pick out
              McDonald's boxes and leave the rest of it?
    11        A.  We pick up McDonald's environment/index.html">litter.  We pick up whatever we
              can reasonably get of anything that is there.  I have to
    12        say I do not say anything to my people of, well, you have
              to do everything on the pavement.  As you and I are aware
    13        there can be some pretty foul things there occasionally
              and we leave that.
    14
         Q.   Suppose I am on environment/index.html">litter patrol and I see a packet of
    15        cigarettes, empty cigarettes or a chocolate wrapper lying
              beside a french fry McDonald's container, will I leave the
    16        other two there or will I pick them up?
              A.  No, you try and get everything.  Certainly around that
    17        demise of our shop front you would sweep everything, pick
              everything, as best you could.
    18
         Q.   How far does it extend the environment/index.html">litter patrol?
    19        A.  It depends on the location.  In central London we can
              go a city block and cover a big area, a lot of people.
    20        Somewhere like "Apple B Meg" out on the M42, we try to
              police our own area and a bit.  It is geographically
    21        bigger actually but does not get nearly the number of
              people walking across the pavement as we might get on the
    22        Edgware Road, for example.
 
    23   Q.   What about inside the store, are there bins and signs
              stuff like that?
    24        A.  Bins are provided and staff are present in all stores
              with the responsibility of overseeing the hygiene and
    25        conditions of the dining rooms, yes.
  
    26   Q.   What about outside in the street, do any McDonald's 
              restaurants provide bins outside for the take-away people 
    27        to put their rubbish into?
              A.  We provide bins outside all our stores where we are
    28        allowed to.  We are also involved heavily with many local
              communities in providing bins to the council, sponsoring
    29        bins for the council that they put around the town as
              well.
    30
         Q.   With that introduction about environment/index.html">litter, can we turn in this

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