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.
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7 But that was obvious. This trouble with the chicken vat,
8 that was the problem with it, it was not obvious.
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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.
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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 -----
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19 Q. It was re-igniting, really ---
20 A. Yes, that is what it always done.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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54 Q. 1st in -----?
55 A. 1st in Service. They are in Birmingham.
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57 Q. Right.
58 A. It is a "1" and "st", in Service. That is the logo,
59 I think.
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