Day 068 - 16 Dec 94 - Page 26
1 MR. MORRIS: You said they export a lot of prime cuts?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Primary cuts.
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5 MR. MORRIS: Is it primary cuts?
6 A. Yes.
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8 Q. They are especially good quality?
9 A. They are a higher price.
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11 Q. So McDonald's would not mind if some of that got mixed in?
12 A. We would.
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14 Q. You would?
15 A. Yes, because it produces a different flavour.
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17 Q. So the McDonald's line does not run all week, then, or it
18 only runs on one or two days?
19 A. We have grown in Costa Rica; we have added, I think, two
20 restaurants in the last year. The first time that
21 I visited, we had only six. It has been growing. We are
22 now working with another supplier, primarily; they are
23 probably running right now a couple of days for us at most.
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25 Q. Coope Montecillos?
26 A. Coope Montecillos, yes.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: So you are still with Coope Montecillos?
29 A. Yes. We are in the process of -----
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31 Q. ----- moving over, but they are still doing a couple of
32 days a week?
33 A. Yes.
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35 MR. MORRIS: So was there a time when they were doing seven days
36 a week?
37 A. No, they have never -- at that level, there has never
38 been a need.
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40 Q. When I say "seven", maybe that is an exaggeration. Was
41 there a time when they were doing five days a week?
42 A. Not constantly. There have been times where, let us
43 say, we have a special promotion and we expect our sales to
44 be higher; so, yes, we could.
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46 MR. MORRIS: So, for example, how many days on average -----
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I am afraid I am going to have to ask you
49 come to the point you are trying to make on this.
50 I still cannot see why we particularly had to go into the
51 machinery. You have really got to come to the point.
52 I cannot see any reason why we have to look into just the
53 number of days. If there is a reason, I should have
54 thought you could come to it straightaway now. If there
55 was a point about the machinery, I would have thought you
56 could come to that straightaway. You are entitled to do a
57 bit of exploring, but we really cannot just explore every
58 possible fact, regardless of its relevance or otherwise to
59 an issue in the case.
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