Day 169 - 04 Oct 95 - Page 19
1 undercooking were about the buns". Even in your evidence
2 that still leaves a minority. You have not seen any
3 incident report forms for those undercooked meat products
4 that were complained about?
5 A. There are other instances of undercooking. For
6 instance, you could get a fillet portion which was
7 undercooked. You could get fries that are undercooked.
8 Just because I say buns, it does not mean -- I mean, people
9 get fries that are undercooked.
10
11 Q. So you have never had any complaints about undercooked meat
12 products; is that what you are saying?
13 A. No, I have never received any complaints about
14 undercooked meats product.
15
16 Q. Or anybody in the store that you are aware of?
17 A. No, I cannot speak for anybody else, can I?
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19 Q. That you are aware of?
20 A. As far as I am aware, we have not received any
21 complaints of undercooked meat products.
22
23 Q. The cooking of 12 patties on the clam shell grill occurred
24 at a time when you were aware that you were not supposed to
25 cook more than nine pieces of meat on a grill, did it not?
26 A. No, it did not.
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28 Q. The change over to 40 to 44 seconds for the regular
29 hamburgers time, the length of time for the cooking,
30 occurred in 1991. Are you saying that ever since that time
31 you only ever -----
32 A. I am saying ever since we received a memo informing us
33 that we should no longer cook 12 pieces of meat on our
34 model 12 grills, we cooked nine pieces of meat on them.
35
36 Q. So are you saying now it may not have happened at the same
37 time as the change over to 44?
38 A. I am saying, it might not have happened exactly the
39 same time. We are talking about an incident that happened
40 five years ago. I cannot remember exactly when we changed
41 over from 38 to 42 to 40 to 44 seconds, and I cannot
42 remember exactly when we changed over from 12 pieces of
43 meat to nine pieces of meat. I am saying I think they
44 happened around the same time.
45
46 Q. That was several years ago?
47 A. That was several years ago.
48
49 Q. So you are saying that it did not happen since that time?
50 A. It has not happened -- since we have received in the
51 store a memo telling us that we are no longer to cook 12
52 pieces of meat on a model 12 clam, we have no longer cooked
53 12 pieces of meat.
54
55 Q. Yesterday you did say that you recalled that being one or
56 two years ago?
57 A. Well, I did not. I said I recalled that as being more
58 than one year ago, and you pressed me further and said:
59 "So it is one to two years, is it?" and I said: "It was
60 at least one year ago". It was several years ago.
